The Main Factors of Well-Being and Success of the Officer Family in the Modern World

The authors of the article considered officer families, defined the role and importance of the family for the officer, highlighted the socio-psychological characteristics of the family of a serviceman, taking into account the influence of the specifics of military service on it. The authors gave an answer to the question how to create a prosperous and happy family for officers, taking into account four types of compatibility, presented the results of a survey conducted among female servicemen studying at the Military Academy of Communications, who answered the question: "What factors of well-being of an officer's family in the modern world do you consider the main ones?", gave recommendations for the preservation of prosperous relationships in young officer families.

Piano in the land of unsaid love – musical contexts of emotional lives of married female characters in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and Sándor Márai’s Embers

In The Sorrows of Young Werther, an epistolary novel by J.W. Goethe, we can find a literary portrait of a beloved woman playing a keyboard instrument. This is the motif Adam Mickiewicz referred to in his Dziady, Part 4. Both texts describe unrequited love to a woman belonging to another man. Belles-lettres reflect repertoire issues – at the turn of the 19th century girls from a proper home performed simple pieces, often dances. Subsequent decades of the 19th century came with the development of piano methodics, and composers wrote pieces which today constitute part of concert canon, whereas the piano became the perfect musical tool. The plot of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks is set in the second half of the 19th century. Music plays an important role in that novel. Mann depicts the problem of clashing views in the marriage of Thomas, who was fond of “pretty melodies”, and Gerda, a magnificent violin and piano player who performed ambitious compositions and showed no mercy in criticising her husband’s musical taste. An important motif is the appearance of a young officer who visits Gerda in order to perform chamber works together. Thomas fears the mysterious bond between his wife and the lieutenant on the one hand and people’s opinions on the other. The motif of music as a platform for communication between a man and a woman can also be found in the novel Embers by Sándor Márai. Here as well it is a connection unavailable to the husband of the main heroine. At the end of his life, Henri, Christine’s husband, refers to music as the “melodious and obscure language” which allows “certain people” to communicate. Both novels include the motif of the end of an era and death of the characters for whom music was extremely significant and who performed compositions of the highest artistic value. Texts by Mann and Márai reflect a decline of a certain stage in the history of culture. It is also the end of the typical ways how burgesses and aristocrats spent their leisure time, how they treated the sphere of emotions and communed with the widely understood art. The result of these changes is the dethronement of the piano, which no longer was one of the most important pieces of furniture in a drawing room nor the most important instrument – as it used to be in the 19th century culture.

Leadership Lessons for a New Battalion Surgeon

ABSTRACT Military medical corps officers often do not have experience with line units until after residency. This case demonstrates the importance of understanding the flow of information within an operational setting. The case also highlights the challenges of advocating for patients as a young officer and physician.

Assessment of Loss of Practical Skills by Cadets in Rescue Operations and Methods of Their Recovery

The article deals with the training of cadets in educational institutions of The State Fire Service of EMERCOM of Russia in the field of rescue and fire fighting. For the first time the attention is focused on the problem connected with gradual loss by the final year of professionally-applied skills and physical and psychological qualities which cadets acquire while studying the course "Fire Drill" which forms basic skills of firefighters' work in the first and second years. The purpose of the study was to assess the degree of loss of previously obtained professional and applied skills and development of methods of practical training, allowing to form and maintain throughout the period of training, practical skills, physical and psychological qualities necessary to perform rescue operations and fire fighting. Methods of observation and pedagogical experiment, as well as statistical methods of processing its results were used to solve the research problems. Pedagogical experiment has confirmed the fact of loss of vocational and applied skills by the graduates while performing fire drill regulations which are so necessary for the young officer, the head of the fire rescue guard. To solve the problem of training cadets and reducing the adaptation period of graduates to their professional activity, a new method of practical training is proposed, which allows to form and maintain throughout the training period, practical skills, physical and psychological qualities necessary to perform rescue operations and fire fighting.

The Gray Ghost

A veteran of service on the USS Constitution and as captain of the brig Dolphin, chasing down slavers, John Newland Maffitt resigns his U.S. Navy commission and joins the rebel war effort as a blockade runner. Often he steers his fast side-wheeler into Wilmington via the Cape Fear approaches, which he charted as a young officer. He becomes legendary for his daring runs. He captures seventy prizes worth as much as $15. At last, thwarted by the capture of Wilmington, he runs his ship to England. He later retires to Wilmington and authors a stirring novel about his cruise aboard the Constitution.

Professional adaptation of a young officer to the service activity: theoretical analysis of the problem

This article is devoted to the problem of professional adaptation of a young officer to official activity. Topcality of the problem is due to the specifics and trends of the professional military space, requiring the officer's willingness to adapt quickly in an service environment, updating personal and professional adaptive models in accordance with the requirements for professional behaviour of the officer. The article analysesthe scientific works of Russian authors, reflecting the essential and meaningful characteristics of adaptation of specialists, on the basis of which the basic components of professional adaptation of the officer, represented by adaptation potential and adaptation, are determined. The results of the study found that the provision of professional adaptation of a young officer in the modern socio-professional realities is a priority task, which has a high personal significance for the military specialist, contributes to the efficiency of service activities and achieve its objectives.

Atatürk

When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides an in-depth look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder. It frames him within the historical context of the turbulent age in which he lived, and explores the uneasy transition from the late Ottoman imperial order to the modern Turkish state through his life and ideas. The book takes readers from Atatürk's youth as a Muslim boy in the volatile ethnic cauldron of Macedonia, to his education in nonreligious and military schools, to his embrace of Turkish nationalism and the modernizing Young Turks movement. Who was this figure who sought glory as an ambitious young officer in World War I, defied the victorious Allies intent on partitioning the Turkish heartland, and defeated the last sultan? This book charts Atatürk's intellectual and ideological development at every stage of his life, demonstrating how he was profoundly influenced by the new ideas that were circulating in the sprawling Ottoman realm. It shows how Atatürk drew on a unique mix of scientism, materialism, social Darwinism, positivism, and other theories to fashion a grand utopian framework on which to build his new nation.

Peristiwa- Peristiwa Sejarah dan Karakteristik Masyarakat Jepang dalam Novel Asakusa Bakuto Ichidai Karya Jun’ichi Saga

This research, entitled “Historical Events and Characteristic of Japanese Society in Asakusa Bakuto Ichidai Novel by Saga Jun’Ichi”. The aim of this research is recognizing the historical events experienced by the Japanese community during the Taishou to Shouwa period, as well as the characteristics of the Japanese society described in the novel Asakusa Bakuto Ichidai. The research used descriptive method of abstraction. The theory used is the sociology of literature according to Laurenson. Based on the result of the analysis, the historical events experienced by Japanese society in the novel Asakusa Bakuto Ichidai are Ashio riot, World War I, Kanto earthquake, the death of Taishou Emperor, War Manchuria, rebellion by young officer, Abe Sada events, and World War II. The characteristics of Japanese society reflected in the novel Asakusa Bakuto Ichidai are to have a habit of respecting time, high morale (ganbaru), the tradition of giving each other gifts (okurimono), having a tradition that keeps the belief in Buddhism, the people who respect the Emperor, shame culture. Based on the strong character of having a hard-working soul and holding fast to tradition, it is known that the Japanese people quickly rise from adversity. It is proven by the success of Japanese society through various events, one of them is the World War II. The event of World War II is the most influential event for the Japanese society in the future.

Determination and Leadership

As a young officer serving under Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott in the Mexican-American War, Ulysses S. Grant saw firsthand the difference a determined leader could make. He showed signs of a developing inner strength during those campaigns, but not until the Civil War did his own force of will become fully apparent. Through the Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Overland campaigns, General Grant made the conscious decision to drive on, to push himself and his men forward, and in each instance, his determination was rewarded with battlefield success. Ulysses S. Grant’s military career reveals the importance of a leader’s unremitting resolve in achieving critical objectives.