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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"On Combat"”.
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Dynamic study of factors impacting on combat power
… Airland Advanced Research Model (ALARM), as an on-going research effort at the Naval Postgraduate School. Specifically, the problem of determining the multidimensional mapping of the state variables that represent the condition of an entity into the power function is addressed. The methods …
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The moderating influence of personality on combat veterans transitioning into civilian college life
Combat veterans returning to a civilian lifestyle are assisted in many ways during their transition. These services are not only demonstrations of patriotic support, but are typically intended to aid veterans with their transition. The transition for combat veterans is, in many ways, completely …
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Exposure to risk and its impact on human capital : essays on combat exposure, military labor, and conflict duration
This dissertation examines the impact of contemporaneous American participation in war on military labor and conflict duration. Chapter one uses variation in occupation-specific retention bonuses and mortality risks observed in the U.S. Army during the war on terror to estimate the rate at which …
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Combat Reconsidered: A Statistical Analysis of Small-Unit Actions During the American Civil War
… the physical features of battleterrain, weaponry, troop formations, earthworks, etc.in assessments of Civil War combat. Most scholars agree that these external combat conditions strongly influenced battle performance. Other historians accentuate the ways in which the mental stresses of …
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Morally Injurious Experiences, Trauma-Related Guilt, and Substance Use among Iraq and Afghanistan Combat Veterans
… for hazardous alcohol use and drug abuse among combat veterans. Guilt following a traumatic event also has a negative impact on veteran’s mental health and is conceptualized as a core symptom of moral injury that may elicit secondary outcomes, including substance use. Significant gaps remain …
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Legions or legends : assessing U.S. Army and Marine effectiveness in the Korean War, 1950-1951
… United States Marine Corps during the first 10 months of the Korean War. Representative battles selected from the Pusan Perimeter, the Liberation of Seoul, and the Retreat from the Yalu are analyzed using a process-tracing methodology to identify variations in performance between the two services …
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Pohled skautských vedoucích v České republice na úpolovou průpravu ve skautingu
… attitude of the Czech Republic scout leaders to Combat Training Scientific question: Recent situation is associated with the decrease of physical contact among the young generation. Due to the spread of modern technologies, children have fewer physical activities, and they are closed in. The …
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The transfer veteran student experience: Exploring college choice, transition, and collegiate experiences of veterans
<p>The tragic series of events that took place on September 11, 2001, changed the course of this nation and became the catalyst for wars that have spanned for more than a decade. As a result, over 2 million veterans have been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring …
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Barriers army combat veterans from the 2000s face when transitioning from military culture to civilian society pertaining to mental health
… intended to provide an insight into the barriers combat veterans face as they separate from military culture and reintegrate into civilian society, specifically how those challenges impact their mental health. The disconnect between military cultural values and values held in the civilian sector …
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The effects of short duration, combined sprint interval training on performance measures
… peak oxygen uptake, incremental time to exhaustion, and power output. Whilst this is beneficial, literature has focussed on the use of lower extremity SIT, despite contributions from both lower and upper extremities in sporting performance. Furthermore, limited investigation has occurred into the …
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Modeling Aspects of Military Readiness
… military performance assessment focuses on combat readiness. This thesis focuses on applying tools from operations research to inform and optimize strategic design decisions as well as operational decisions related to military readiness. In particular, we use a variety of optimization …
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The Effects of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Command and Control Latency during Within-Visual-Range Air-To-Air Combat
<p>The type of military missions conducted by remotely piloted aircraft continues to expand into all facets of operations including air-to-air combat. While future within-visual-range air-to-air combat will be piloted by artificial intelligence, remotely piloted aircraft will likely first see …
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The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace
<p>This dissertation employs historical methodology and public health theory to examine how critical changes in the culture and political economy of biomedical research shaped Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist Hans Selye's concept of biological stress, guiding him to develop a highly …
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Boot Camp for the Psyche: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film
… theorists have hinted at various social functions served by the gothic genre—such as providing an outlet for grief, anxiety, and violence in their various forms—recent research within the last few decades into sociology, military science, and trauma studies supplies compelling new ways of …