Author: Michael

Women injured in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq died at higher rates than their male peers with the same injuries, often because medics were hesitating to treat them, medical researchers found. To end that hesitancy, the Army will soon field new mannequin-style patient simulators designed as female bodies.
Mark Schenk is a former Army sergeant major who served as a chief medical operations supervisor at Fort Cavazos, Texas. He said he’s seen many otherwise well-trained male medics lose focus while treating a woman.

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A major overhaul of how Marines learn to shoot and track their skills will begin to roll out across the service in the next few months, according to a Marine Corps-wide Marksmanship Campaign Plan released Monday. The Campaign plan, published by the Marine Corps Training and Education Command, sets deadlines for new training to be up and running across the force and mandates major renovations for shooting ranges that don’t yet comply with the new marksmanship standards.

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For major wars like the one being fought between Russia and Ukraine, the military, the people, and the state interact with one another to constitute a collective national will to fight. In most wars, one side loses its will to fight and is forced into an unfavorable negotiating position; it accepts a defeat short of annihilation. Russia can be broken in Ukraine and thereby forced to accept this kind of negotiated defeat.

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