Protecting Our 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 : 44,6 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 : National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division of Military Science and Technology and Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309172257

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Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces by National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division of Military Science and Technology and Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology Pdf

Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns about health effects that could be associated with their deployment and service during the war. Although similar concerns were raised after other military operations, the Gulf War deployment focused national attention on the potential, but uncertain, relationship between the presence of chemical and biological (CB) agents and other harmful agents in theater and health symptoms reported by military personnel. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces which is one of the four two-year studies, examines the detection and tracking of exposures of deployed personnel to multiple harmful agents.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788139109

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Protection of U. S. Forces Deployed Abroad: The Khobar Towers Terrorist Attack Report by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Report by the Sec. of Defense on the threat of sophisticated organized terrorism against U.S. overseas forces. He announces major changes in the approach to force protection, and the placement of the threat of terrorism as one of the important considerations to be weighed when deciding how best to undertake a deployment. Appendix contains the Downing Report; the Defense Special Weapons Agency Report of the Khobar Towers Bomb Damage; the memo assigning responsibility for force protection, etc. Includes an 11-page report by Sen. Arlen Specter after a fact-finding trip to Saudi Arabia and a staff review of materials, concluding that there was no intelligence failure prior to the June 25 deadly bombing of the Khobar Towers complex.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309071895

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Protecting Those Who Serve by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces Pdf

Since the Gulf War ended in 1991, various constituencies, including a significant number of veterans, speculate that unidentified risk factors led to chronic, medically unexplained illnesses, and these constituencies challenge the depth of the military's commitment to protect the health of deployed troops. Despite general concurrence in findings to support these claims, few changes have been made at the field level. The most important recommendations remain unimplemented, despite the compelling rationale for urgent action. Protecting Those Who Serve illuminates these recommendations and government-developed plans that remain inactive due to a lack of authority within the Department of Defense, while describing the dangers that may result from failure to protect our forces in the field.

Author : Madeline Drexler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1125923228

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What You Need to Know about Infectious Disease by Madeline Drexler Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : PURD:32754077089344

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Protecting the Health of Deployed Forces by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015089030251

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108-1 Hearing: Protecting The Health of Deployed Forces, Lessons Learned From The Persian Gulf War, March 25, 2003, * by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vernon E. Clark
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437927986

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Protecting the Force by Vernon E. Clark Pdf

On Nov. 5, 2010, a gunman opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas. Thirteen people were killed and 43 others were wounded or injured. Following the shooting, Defense Sec. Robert M. Gates established the Dept. of Defense Independent Review Related to Fort Hood to address questions about the degree to which the entire Dept. is prepared for similar incidents in the future -- especially multiple, simultaneous incidents. This report includes, but is not limited to: identifying and monitoring potential threats; providing time-critical information to the right people; employing force protection measures; and planning for and responding to incidents.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : PSU:000063502985

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Army Force Protection Equipment for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309068765

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Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces by National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology Pdf

Risk management is especially important for military forces deployed in hostile and/or chemically contaminated environments, and on-line or rapid turn-around capabilities for assessing exposures can create viable options for preventing or minimizing incapaciting exposures or latent disease or disability in the years after the deployment. With military support for the development, testing, and validation of state-of-the-art personal and area sensors, telecommunications, and data management resources, the DOD can enhance its capabilities for meeting its novel and challenging tasks and create technologies that will find widespread civilian uses. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces assesses currently available options and technologies for productive pre-deployment environmental surveillance, exposure surveillance during deployments, and retrospective exposure surveillance post-deployment. This report also considers some opportunities for technological and operational advancements in technology for more effective exposure surveillance and effects management options for force deployments in future years.

Author : Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674043725

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Protecting Soldiers and Mothers by Theda Skocpol Pdf

It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens. During the late nineteenth century, competitive party politics in American democracy led to the rapid expansion of benefits for Union Civil War veterans and their families. Some Americans hoped to expand veterans' benefits into pensions for all of the needy elderly and social insurance for workingmen and their families. But such hopes went against the logic of political reform in the Progressive Era. Generous social spending faded along with the Civil War generation. Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country. Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining afresh the institutional, cultural, and organizational forces that have shaped U.S. social policies in the past, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Department of Military Science and Technology,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309172509

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Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Department of Military Science and Technology,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems Pdf

Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns that their postdeployment medical symptoms could have been caused by hazardous exposures or other deployment-related factors. Potential exposure to a broad range of CB and other harmful agents was not unique to Gulf operations. Hazardous exposures have been a component of all military operations in this century. Nevertheless, the Gulf War deployment focused national attention on the potential, but uncertain, relationship between the presence of CB agents in theater and symptoms reported by military personnel. Particular attention has been given to the potential long-term health effects of low-level exposures to CB agents. In the spring of 1996, Deputy Secretary of Defense John White met with the leadership of the National Academies to discuss the DoD's continuing efforts to improve protection of military personnel from adverse health effects during deployments in hostile environments. Although many lessons learned from previous assessments of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm have been reported, prospective analyses are still needed. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Force Protection and Decontamination, which addresses the issues of physical protection and decontamination, is one of four initial reports that will be submitted in response to that request. Specifically, this report includes a review and evaluation of the following areas: the adequacy of current protective equipment and protective measures (as well as equipment in development) the efficacy of current and proposed methods for decontaminating personnel and equipment after exposures to CB agents current policies, doctrine, and training to protect and decontaminate personnel and equipment in future deployments (i.e., major regional conflicts [MRCs], lesser regional conflicts [LRCs], and operations other than war [OOTWs]) the impact of equipment and procedures on unit effectiveness and other human performance factors current and projected military capabilities to provide emergency response

Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0889369631

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The Responsibility to Protect by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : PSU:000063524970

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Review of Marine Corps Force Protection by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf