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Making Military Wives: Militarizing Social Reproduction of Military Families
<p>How do current day military institutional practices structure the daily lives of military wives? To answer this question, I use the theories of greedy institutions, militarization, and the life-course perspective to investigate the effects of deployments, temporary duty assignments, and training …
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Retention and the Dual-Military Couple: Implications for Military Readiness
Military readiness--the ability to field trained forces that are able fight and win wars--is a top concern for military leaders. The ability of the services to retain highly trained personnel contributes, in large part, to military readiness. Readiness is negatively affected when a subgroup within …
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Sino-American military relations determinants of policy and corresponding military responsiveness
… and cooperation. Further examination of U.S. military relations policy displaces these casual observations in favor of explanations based on more complex domestic political agendas and bureaucratic politics in the DoD that led to more enduring changes in policy and implementation. This …
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Military media machine: how the British military communicated Afghanistan at home
Military Media Machine is an investigation into the media management structure, and the increasingly dynamic communication processes, developed and implemented by the UK military. It explores – rather than explains – the proliferation in military media facilitation within defence, at a time when …
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Gender and military professionalism
… and perspectives on gender in the country's military profession
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Economics of military outsourcing
… with outsourcing the production of defence and military activities to private providers. Theoretical approaches to the issue are reviewed and found to make insufficiently specific predictions to be useful in assessing the scope for outsourcing. Instead four empirical analyses are undertaken …
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United States Military Preparedness
… nature, criteria, and inadequacies of America's military preparedness. In examining military preparedness, the thesis has found that military preparedness consists of five pillars: force structure, strategic mobility, ballistic missile defense, modernization and procurement, and operational …
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The Chinese Military Ethic
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212354.pdf: 7970399 bytes, checksum: 7a82796923b4d25936540f31129305e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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United States military-to-military contact with the People's Liberation Army of China
This thesis will assess whether or not military-to-military contacts between the United States military and the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) will be advantageous to American interests. The main reason not to increase military-tomilitary contact is that we may go to war with China in the …
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Feasibility Study among Military Personnel with Traumatic Amputation during Military Combat or Training
Military operations have resulted in a significant number of mangled extremities leading to traumatic amputations. Extremity injuries predominate, representing 50% to 70% of all injuries treated (Melcer, 2010). The majority of injuries sustained in Operation Endearing Freedom/Operation Iraqi …
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The Resiliency of Highly Mobile Military Children: Implications for Military and Education Leadership
… One specific group of highly mobile children, military children, face these challenges and more, due somewhat to the unique culture of the military. Military children are called upon to move across state lines and/or international borders and typically face multiple school absences and stress …
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The Employment of Ex-Military As Teachers: The Military, Masculinity and Moral Regulation
… research has analyzed the employment of ex-military as teachers from a perspective of identity and culture. Using a single case study approach, including focus groups, interviews and observations, the research has explored a military academy within 'College', a further education institute in …
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Military Industry and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Military Aid, Technology, and Barriers to Peace
… people that result from this policy, and the military-industrial complex that benefits from the US-Israel relationship. I also note that the military industry profits from the Israel-Palestine conflict and, thus, has an incentive for the conflict to continue. I argue that despite billions of …
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Military versus private industry versus university control and administration of military research and development
Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Industrial Management, 1957.
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Armed forces, states and threats : civil-military institutions and military power in modern democracies
… questions preoccupying political scientists, military officers and policymakers alike are how should and how do political leaders interact with military professionals? This thesis argues that historic patterns of civil-military relations underlay distinct national defense policymaking …
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Cybersecurity education for military officers
Cyber threats are a growing concern for our military, creating a need for cybersecurity education. Current methods used to educate students about cyber, including annual Navy Knowledge Online training, are perceived to be ineffective. The Naval Postgraduate School developed an All hands pilot …
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Analysis of military contracting procedures.
Nearly one -third of the annual budget of the Department of Defense is spent for the research, development, and production of weapons systems. All but a very small fraction of these activities are carried out by private industry under contract with the government. Over the years this contractual …
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Undergraduate experiences of military spouses
… the lived educational experiences of active duty military spouses pursuing an undergraduate degree, with a focus on the perceived opportunities and challenges related to degree completion. Data were collected from nine participants who identified as an active duty military spouse enrolled in an …
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