Any military operation must be planned taking into consideration ”quantity” and ”quality” of forces. These forces must be ”set up” and organised and used in operations according to their ”combat ...power” at the specified place and time. Only if there is a correct analysis and “determination” of combat power these forces can have a chance to win
The evaluation of equipment support capability cannot be ignored in the work of equipment support, and the evaluation results directly affect the formulation and decision-making of the support ...scheme. In view of the multi-source uncertain information in the process of evaluation, this paper proposes an equipment support capability evaluation model based on information fusion, and uses the D-S evidence theory to model and evaluate the uncertainty. The results show that the proposed method is effective. It can be used in engineering practice.
BACKGROUND
Hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death in military and civilian traumatic injury. Blood product resuscitation improves survival. Low‐titer Type O Whole Blood (LTOWB) was ...recently re‐introduced to the combat theater as a universal resuscitation product for hemorrhagic shock. This study assessed the utilization patterns of LTOWB compared to warm fresh whole blood (WFWB) and blood component therapy (CT) in US Military Operations in Iraq/Syria and Afghanistan known as Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (OFS) respectively. We hypothesized LTOWB utilization would increase over time given its advantages.
STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS
Using the Theater Medical Data Store, patients receiving blood products between January 2016 and December 2017 were identified. Product utilization ratios (PUR) for LTOWB, WFWB, and CT were compared across Area of Operations (AORs), medical treatment facilities (Role 2 vs. Role 3), and time. PUR was defined as number of blood products transfused/(number of blood products transfused + number of blood products wasted).
RESULTS
The overall PUR for all blood products was 17.4%; the LTOWB PUR was 14.3%. Over the study period, the total number of blood products transfused increased 133%. Although the total whole blood (WB) increased from 2.1% to 6.6% of all products transfused, WFWB use remained at 2% while LTOWB transfusions increased from 0.5% to 4%. Transfusion of LTOWB occurred more in austere Role 2 facilities compared to Role 3 hospitals.
CONCLUSIONS
LTOWB transfusion is feasible in austere, far‐forward environments. Further investigation is needed regarding the safety, clinical outcomes, and drivers of LTOWB transfusions.
30 év telt el azóta, hogy a Varsói Szerződés, amelynek hazánk is tagja volt, felbomlott, és több mint 20 év telt el azóta, hogy egy másik katonai szövetséghez, a NATO-hoz csatlakoztunk. Ez idáig ...azonban jelentős modernizáció nem valósult meg a Magyar Honvédségben. A honvédség földi telepítésű légvédelmi eszközeinek a jelentős része még a rendszerváltás előtti időkben állt hadrendbe. Az elmúlt évtizedekben a levegőből érkező fenyegetés eszközei jelentős fejlődésen mentek keresztül a világban, így a Magyarország légvédelmét érintő fejlesztések sem halaszthatók tovább. Felismerve a kort és a nemzetközi biztonsági tendenciákat, Magyarország kormánya elkötelezte magát, hogy hazánk, illetve állampolgárainak biztonságát garantálva elindítsa a rendszerváltás óta eltelt időszak legnagyobb programját, a Zrínyi Honvédelmi és Haderőfejlesztési Programot, amelynek keretében a légvédelmi rakéta fegyvernem is megújul.
The Taming of the Shrewd Verrall, Neil; Mason, David
The RUSI journal,
02/2018, Volume:
163, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Who can be believed and how should people act in a contemporary atmosphere of alternative facts, the rise of 'fake' information and post-truth politics? Neil Verrall and David Mason suggest that ...although these are not new concepts, the global speed and scale of information and discourse that military commanders need to address to communicate effectively in the current and future operating environments present new and challenging issues.
The modern battlefield scenario presents a number of challenges that highlights the importance of data gathering and information flow as crucial to the success of a military operation. In this ...context, network-centric warfare systems play an important role to bridge the gap between data and information sources and consumers. These systems are generally composed of different types of networks both deployed on the field and on back-end facilities. A paramount problem faced when conceiving the interconnection between the networked devices is how to provide robust and dependable connections to the devices on the field. This work tackles this issue proposing the use of the self-organizing paradigm to design efficient UAV relay networks to support military operations. As a proof of concept, realistic simulation experiments are performed providing clear indications of the claimed benefits of the self-organizing paradigm applied to these military systems.
•Different types of landing zones for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.•Classification of landing zone detection techniques.•Existing methods for safe landing zone detection techniques.
The age of ...automation is upon us. Few decades earlier, nearly all the flying vehicles were human-controlled. Nowadays, almost every air vehicle is partially automated or getting closer to full automation. This race towards full automation has led to the introduction of features like autopilot. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are the tiniest version of all types of air vehicles. The widespread usage of autonomous UAVs has spawned the need for safe landing zone (SLZ) detection techniques for UAV landing. A SLZ detection becomes an important face of a mission when the UAV needs emergency landing due to the technical difficulties or adverse weather conditions on the way of its operation. Before directly proceeding for landing, a UAV has to decide whether the landing zones are safe or not. On-board visual sensors provide potential information of the ground surface in the form of image or signal. Different image processing and safe landing area detection (SLAD) algorithms are then used to identify the best possible landing sites from the input data. In this survey, we discuss indoor and outdoor landing zone detection techniques. We further classify outdoor landing zones as either static or dynamic and discuss existing literature in the specific categories. We critique the shortcomings of existing SLZ detection techniques while also acknowledging their contributions. Further, we point to potential areas of improvement and future directions of the safe landing zone detection algorithms we surveyed. This survey paper may be a useful tutorial for understanding the types of landing zones and landing zone detection techniques for the UAVs, the strengths of zone detection algorithms, and the open areas for future improvement and research.
What explains the Russian Federation's Arctic military buildup? Scholarly assessments have pondered this question many times, providing descriptive analyses of its buildup or finding Russia's ...motivation in high-level policy. This article complements that work by examining Russian military theory in the context of the Arctic, revealing the relationship between geo-economics and military strategy in the region. It shows that Russian writers view Arctic military investments as defensive in nature, designed to protect critical economic and security infrastructure from attack by the United States, an adversary that, in their view, seeks to destroy such critical infrastructure as part of a war-winning strategy. Rather than responding to military deployments in an inconsistent tit-for-tat that contributes to a security dilemma, the United States should develop firm, but more predictable, military responses that may help slow the Arctic escalation spiral.
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