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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"combat performance"”.
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A method for developing a criterion for combat performance of naval aviators
… advanced stages of training and the ineffective performance of others in operational missions have caused a considerable financial loss and a lessening of combat readiness . A critical incident study, using 30 aviators who have combat experience, indicates that there are 10 categories of behavior …
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The Forgotten Boys of the Ninth Corps: Reappraising the Combat Performance of the 31st Maine and 17th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiments
This dissertation explores the combat performance of the Union soldiers who filled newly-raised regiments that fought through the Civil War’s final year. Period observers and historians have typically regarded such later arrivals as substandard to the “Boys of ‘61” who enlisted at the war’s start. …
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Combat Reconsidered: A Statistical Analysis of Small-Unit Actions During the American Civil War
… 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 soldiering affected combat performance. These scholars tend to agree that …
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Psychological, social and attitudinal variables associated with infantry combat effectiveness and their relation to women.
… consideration is being given to opening up combat occupations to women. This thesis reviewed relevant literature in the fields of psychology and sociology, and found that several individual and group variables (body dimensions, personality, activity level, and social cohesion) were related …
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Examining Combat Effectiveness in Asymmetric Engagements with Balanced Forces Using the Information Age Combat Model
… identified in the investigation of networked combat force configurations in the realm of asymmetric engagements. Specifically, the research question is, how should an information age combat force be networked in order to increase its combat effectiveness in asymmetric engagements with balanced …
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Rebel Organizations, Force Structure, and the Dynamics of Violence in Armed Intrastate Conflicts
… affect their use of violence against civilians, combat violence, and sexual violence. Chapter one focuses on child soldiering, suggesting that the practice does not have a uniformly positive effect on violence against civilians, as indicated by earlier work, but that the effect is conditioned by …
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Send in the Reserves! The Development and Significance of the Reserve Dilemma in Military History
… character of warfare, as evidenced by the poor performance of many reservists in the conflicts of the past century. However, armies preparing for large-scale combat operations generally could not reduce their reliance on reservists because of a combination of political, military, and …