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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Military organizations."”.
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Decentralizing decision making in modern military organizations
For organizations, the value of information is to improve decision making. In the military in particular, information's role in warfare has always been to affect decisions at all levels -- from strategic to tactical - to put one's forces in a position of advantage. In the information age, the cost …
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Key Factors Driving Personnel Downsizing in Multinational Military Organizations
… has long been a topic of research in traditional organizations, there are very few studies of this phenomenon in military contexts. As a result, we have little understanding of the key factors that drive personnel downsizing in military settings. This study contributes to our understanding of key …
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Analysis of engineering knowledge management in Latin American military organizations : a case study
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002.
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The Elite of the Elites: the U.S. Marine Raider Battalions, 1942-1944: A Case Study in Elite Military Organizations
… a unique case study in the nature of elitism in military cultures. This thesis examines the unique circumstances surrounding the creation of the Raiders, their rise to fame, and sudden fall from grace, concluding that the operational necessities of the late war period converged with the on-going …
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Best practices in user needs/requirements generation
… of the front-end processes of eight commercial organizations and eight military organizations in addition to the US Air Force, the applicability of the framework was tested. All of the organizations demonstrated the existence of the four fundamental activities contained in the framework but a …
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First War Syndrome : military culture, professionalization, and counterinsurgency doctrine
… was a persistent and important challenge to military organizations in the second half of the 20th century and seems likely to continue to pose a challenge in the 21st century. This makes understanding how military organizations respond to this challenge both an important policy question and a …
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Knights in shining armor? : when humanitarian military intervention works and when it does not
Military intervention for stated humanitarian purposes has been undertaken on several occasions since the end of the Cold War. It is bound to be attempted again, yet academics and policy makers have left fundamental questions unanswered. Have past humanitarian military interventions saved lives? …
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Total Fitness
… the well-being of their families and their military organizations.
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Las milicias en el Mediterráneo occidental. Valencia y Cerdeña en la época de los Austrias
… defend, the Hispanic Monarchy focused on their military resources to the most strategic borders. For this and other reasons, traditional forms of military organizations, suchs as local militias, were far from being former things: defending the cities, towns and villages of the kingdom was the …
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Exploring Shared Mental Models Within Submarine Tactical Multiteam Systems
… has studied multiple government, civilian, and military organizations. While there have been multiple avenues that research has gone down, this study focuses on the transition from individual teams to MTSs, shared mental model research, and facilitators and barriers to shared mental model …
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Agile Knowledge Management; A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension to Military Applications
… management, re-conceptualize it and extend it to military applications with a special focus on Counterinsurgency (COIN).</p> <p>An initial qualitative exploration of agility in knowledge management was performed. Three different concepts and their interrelationships were analyzed: (1) knowledge …
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Theocratic Governance and Military Force Structure: Correlation Vs. Causation
… the relationship between regime type and military force structure. In particular, the paper will be examining the correlation between modern day theocracies and their parallel military systems. These systems are constructed of the regular armed forces and an autonomous national guard. This …
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Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Instrumentation Platform for Unmanned Vehicle Testing
… are becoming more important in the future of the military and in commercial applications. These systems are used to prevent humans from entering dangerous situations or to automate dull tasks. In order to facilitate rapid development of these systems, testing procedures and infrastructure need to …
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Securing a UAV Using Features from an EEG Signal
… station. UAVs have attracted both commercial and military organizations in recent years. The progress in this field has reached significant popularity, and the research has incorporated different areas from the scientific domain. UAV communication became a significant concern when an attack on a …
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Performance measurement of a carrier battle group: a case study of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet's participation as a performance planning and reporting pilot project for fiscal year 1996
… and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). Combatant military organizations have experienced, and will experience, some of the greatest challenges of changing from the management of inputs and outputs to defining, quantifying, measuring and managing for outcomes. The central core of this thesis is an …
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Internal Security and Military Reorganization: The Rise of Paramilitaries in Developing Societies
… societies has been the rise of parallel military organizations (armed forces such as constabularies and militias outside the regular military and the police) concurrent with the ""third wave"" of democratization. This study develops a theory of why certain instruments of coercion …
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Cost benefit analysis of establishing a network-based training system in the Turkish Coast Guard
… and training are undeniably necessary for organizations to develop their workforces and to achieve success in the fast-changing world. The results of this research showed that the implementation of a supplemental network-based training system in the Turkish Coast Guard is technically and …
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Risk-Aware Planning for Sensor Data Collection
… of low-cost unmanned air vehicles, civilian and military organizations are quickly identifying new applications for affordable, large-scale collectives to support and augment human efforts via sensor data collection. In order to be viable, these collectives must be resilient to the risk and …
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Rescue activity of a civilian helicopter emergency medical service in the western cape, South Africa: a five-year retrospective review
… and rescue in Africa is conducted primarily by military organizations. Since 2002 the Western Cape of South Africa has had a dedicated contracted civilian helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) conducting air ambulance, terrestrial and aquatic rescue. This is the first description of the …
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