Military Personnel

Author : Adam Chapnick,Craig Stone
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780776639987

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Academic Writing for Military Personnel, revised edition by Adam Chapnick,Craig Stone Pdf

Academic Writing for Military Personnel is a manual for writing clear and effective academic prose. Authored by an experienced writing instructor and a retired military officer, both of whom teach in a professional military education institution, it is designed for members of the armed forces who are entering, or perhaps re-entering, the academic community, and having spent much of their careers either writing in the professional military context or not writing at all. The book not only teaches officers how to write convincingly, but also explains why a sound grasp of academic writing can enhance their effectiveness in their regular duties, particularly as they reach the more senior levels of service. Chapters focus on the value of written communication skills, the difference between professional (staff) and academic writing, the research process, the writing process, academic professionalism, and common writing problems and challenges. A particularly innovative final chapter discusses how officers can use the knowledge that they have acquired through their professional experiences in the academic context. Specific examples – chosen with a military audience in mind – are integrated throughout the text to provide the reader with relevant and practical guidance. The revised edition incorporates new examples from a more diverse set of authors, takes into account recent changes in communication technologies, and reflects new advancements in the scholarship of teaching and learning. As the only comprehensive guide to effective academic writing designed specifically for military personnel, this book will be a crucial addition to the libraries of junior and senior officers in militaries worldwide. Available formats: trade paperback, accessible PDF, and accessible ePub

Author : The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000620030

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The Military Balance 2022 by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Pdf

Published each year since 1959, The Military Balance is an indispensable reference to the capabilities of armed forces across the globe. It is used by academia, the media, armed forces, the private sector and government. It is an open-source assessment of the military forces and equipment inventories of 171 countries, with accompanying defence economics and procurement data. Alongside detailed country data, The Military Balance assesses important defence issues, by region, as well as key global trends, such as in defence technology and equipment modernisation. This analysis is accompanied by full-colour graphics, including maps and illustrations. With extensive explanatory notes and reference information, The Military Balance is as straightforward to use as it is extensive. The 2022 edition is accompanied by a fullcolour wall chart illustrating security dynamics in the Arctic.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Committee on Dietary Supplement Use by Military Personnel
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309177658

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Use of Dietary Supplements by Military Personnel by Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Committee on Dietary Supplement Use by Military Personnel Pdf

Dietary supplements are widely available through a rapidly expanding market of products commonly advertised as beneficial for health, performance enhancement, and disease prevention. Given the importance and frequent evaluation of physical performance and health as a criteria to join and remain in the military, the use of these products by military personnel has raised concern regarding over-all and long-term efficacy and safety. This evaluation is especially difficult, as many of these supplements contain multiple ingredients, have a changing composition over time, or are used intermittently at doses difficult to measure. This book analyzes the patterns of dietary supplement use among military personnel, examines published reviews of the scientific evidence, and identifies those dietary supplements that are beneficial and/or warrant concern due to risks to health or performance. The book also recommends a system to monitor adverse health effects and a framework to identify the need for active management of dietary supplements by military personnel. Military policy makers, personnel, and recruits will find this book useful, as will nutritionists, athletes, and others working in strenuous environments.

Author : Robert R. Sinclair,Thomas W. Britt
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433813319

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Building Psychological Resilience in Military Personnel by Robert R. Sinclair,Thomas W. Britt Pdf

In this book, authors investigate the concept of resilience, and evaluate existing programs for developing and maintaining resilience that have been implemented in various branches of our armed forces.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Medical Follow-up Agency,Committee on a Strategy for Minimizing the Impact of Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases of Military Importance: Vaccine Issues in the U.S. Military
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309084994

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Protecting Our Forces by Institute of Medicine,Medical Follow-up Agency,Committee on a Strategy for Minimizing the Impact of Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases of Military Importance: Vaccine Issues in the U.S. Military Pdf

Infectious diseases continue to pose a substantial threat to the operational capacity of military forces. Protecting Our Forces reviews the process by which the U.S. military acquires vaccines to protect its warfighters from natural infectious disease threats. The committee found that poorly aligned acquisition processes and an inadequate commitment of financial resources within the Department of Defense vaccine acquisition process â€" rather than uncleared scientific or technological hurdles â€" contribute to the unavailability of some vaccines that could protect military personnel and, implicitly, the welfare and security of the nation. Protecting Our Forces outlines ways in which DoD might strengthen its acquisition process and improve vaccine availability. Recommendations, which include combining all DoD vaccine acquisition responsibilities under a single DoD authority, cover four broad aspects of the acquisition process: (1) organization, authority, and responsibility; (2) program and budget; (3)manufacturing; (4) and the regulatory status of special-use vaccines.

Author : Andrew L. Brown
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774866996

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Building the Army’s Backbone by Andrew L. Brown Pdf

In September 1939, Canada’s tiny army began its remarkable expansion into a wartime force of almost half a million soldiers. Building the Army’s Backbone tells the story of how senior leadership created a corps of non-commissioned officers (NCOs) that helped the burgeoning force train, fight, and win. This innovative book uncovers the army’s two-track NCO production system: locally organized training programs were run by units and formations, while centralized training and talent-distribution programs were overseen by the army. Ultimately, this two-pronged system produced a corps of NCOs that collectively possessed the necessary skills in leadership, tactics, and instruction to help the army succeed in battle.

Author : James A. Wood
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774817653

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Militia Myths by James A. Wood Pdf

The image of farmers and workers called to the colours endures in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity as recent as our histories and memories suggest? Militia Myths brings to light a military culture that consistently employed the citizen soldier as its foremost symbol, but was otherwise in a state of profound transition. At the time of Confederation, the defence of Canada itself represented the country’s only real obligation to the British Empire, but by the early twentieth century Canadians were already fighting an imperial war in South Africa. In 1914, they began raising an army to fight on the Western Front. By the end of the First World War, the ideological transition was complete: for better or for worse, the untrained civilian who had answered the call-to-arms in 1914 replaced the long-serving volunteer militiaman of the past as the archetypical Canadian citizen soldier. Militia Myths traces the evolution of a uniquely Canadian amateur military tradition -- one that has had an enormous impact on the country’s experience of the First and Second World Wars. Published in association with the Canadian War Museum.

Author : Bret A. Moore,Walter Penk,Walter E. Penk
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781462538447

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Treating PTSD in Military Personnel, Second Edition by Bret A. Moore,Walter Penk,Walter E. Penk Pdf

Now revised and expanded, this state-of-the-science guide is edited and written by leading authorities. The volume covers the full range of effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and helps clinicians gain competency for working with service members and veterans.

Author : Krystal K. Hachey,Tamir Libel,Waylon H. Dean
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030455705

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Rethinking Military Professionalism for the Changing Armed Forces by Krystal K. Hachey,Tamir Libel,Waylon H. Dean Pdf

This book will make a first contribution to identify the gaps in current practices and provide alternative mechanisms to conceptualize professionalism that is reflective of changing requirements, culture, and demographics of the contemporary military force.The military profession promotes the development, sustainment, and embodiment of ethos, which guides conduct across operational contexts, from times of national and international crises and security challenges (e.g., war, natural disasters, and peace support operations). It is imperative for military leaders to understand how ethos and doctrine shape professional frameworks, which guide the conduct of military members.

Author : Allan Douglas English
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 077352715X

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Understanding Military Culture by Allan Douglas English Pdf

Examines military culture from a theoretical and a practical point of view Considers conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq that have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in analyzing the ability of military organizations to perform certain tasks Culture has been described as the bedrock of military effectiveness because it influences everything an armed service does. The recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in analyzing the ability of military organizations to perform certain tasks. In fact, a military's culture may determine its preferred way of fighting and dealing with other challenges, like incorporating new technologies, more than its doctrine or organizational structure. of view. It focuses on the Canadian and American military cultures, and it provides the first detailed examination of the culture of the Canadian Forces. It also compares their culture to that of the US armed forces. The book concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been Americanized to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in their personnel and roles, has experienced a certain degree of Canadianization at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Committee on Nutrition, Trauma, and the Brain
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309210089

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Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury by Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Committee on Nutrition, Trauma, and the Brain Pdf

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounts for up to one-third of combat-related injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to some estimates. TBI is also a major problem among civilians, especially those who engage in certain sports. At the request of the Department of Defense, the IOM examined the potential role of nutrition in the treatment of and resilience against TBI.

Author : Angela Rosa Febbraro,Irina Goldenberg,Waylon Dean,Canadian Defence Academy Staff,Canada, Canadian Armed Forces Wing, 17 Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1100253564

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The Defence Team by Angela Rosa Febbraro,Irina Goldenberg,Waylon Dean,Canadian Defence Academy Staff,Canada, Canadian Armed Forces Wing, 17 Staff Pdf

Author : Canada. Ministry, Overseas Military Forces of Canada
Publisher : London : Printed by authority of the Ministry, Overseas Military Forces of Canada
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037628224

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Report of the Ministry, Overseas Military Forces of Canada, 1918 by Canada. Ministry, Overseas Military Forces of Canada Pdf

Author : J. L. Granatstein
Publisher : HarperFlamingo
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : NWU:35556035099415

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Who Killed the Canadian Military? by J. L. Granatstein Pdf

"Jack Granatstein’s Who Killed the Canadian Military? is more than a history of the decline and rustout of a military that as late as 1966 boasted 3,826 aircraft (including cutting-edge Sea King helicopters) as opposed to today’s 328 aircraft-including those same Sea Kings and CF-18 fighters whose avionics are a generation out of date; the same can be said of the army and navy. Granatstein’s book is a convincing analysis of Canada’s embrace of a delusional foreign policy that equates knee jerk anti-Americanism with sovereignty and forgets that in a Hobbesian world of international relations, “power still comes primarily from the barrel of a gun” and not from Steven Lewis’s speeches about Canadian goodwill, tolerance or humanitarianism."--from amazon.com product desc.

Author : Stephen J. Cozza,Matthew N. Goldenberg,Robert J. Ursano
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781585625314

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Care of Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families by Stephen J. Cozza,Matthew N. Goldenberg,Robert J. Ursano Pdf

Care of Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families serves a critical need, which has been highlighted by recent reported rates of combat-related stress disorders and traumatic brain injury, as well as increases in suicide rates among service members and veterans over the past decade and the distress and challenges faced by their children and families. More than 2.5 million Americans currently serve in the U.S. military on active duty, in the Reserves, or in the National Guard, and more than 20 million civilians are veterans. Although patients are viewed here in the context of military service, they seek health care in military, veteran, and civilian settings, and their mental health concerns are as diverse as those encountered in the civilian population. This book is designed for clinicians in all care settings and provides thorough coverage of U.S. military structures and cultures across the armed services, as well as detailed material on the particular mental health challenges faced by service members and their families. A full overview of the military lifestyle is provided, including the life cycle of the military (recruitment to retirement), service subcultures (Navy, Army, Marines, Air Force, and Reserve and Guard components), challenges of military life for service members and families (moves, deployments, etc.), and military mental health. Material on military culture provides insight for practitioners who may not be familiar with this population. The book focuses on collaborative care, particularly between the military health care system and the Veterans Administration, providing clinicians with strategies to mitigate stigma and other barriers to care through mental health service delivery in primary care settings. The incidence of traumatic brain injury among service members has increased because of the use of improvised explosive devices, and an entire chapter is devoted to diagnosing and treating these injuries as well as educating patients and their families on the condition. The families of service members face significant challenges, and several chapters are devoted to the needs of military children, the families of ill and injured service members and veterans, deployment-related care, and caring for the bereaved. The book's comprehensive review of resources available to military service members, veterans, and families both ensures high-quality care and reduces the workload for treating physicians. Care of Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families is an authoritative and much-needed addition to the mental health literature.