Whether you are attracted to populated areas like Japan and Italy, isolated places like Diego Garcia and Kwajalein, or hot spots like Iraq or Afghanistan, there are a number of things to consider before you pack your bags. First and foremost, there is the matter of actually finding a job. Start by asking your current employer if there are any …
Private Military Units in the UN
Should organizations whose missions are exclusively peaceful and nonaggressive, like the United Nations, use private military contractors in the same way that the United States and other nations-states use these entities in places like Iraq and Afghanistan? Two Polish scholars addressed this question, and other ones like it, in a recent International Community Law Review article. The use of Private …
U.S. Planning on Long Term Commitment in Afghanistan
Based on the “uneven” performance of its security forces, Army General John Campbell believes that Afghanistan will require extensive support until “at least” 2024 because that is the earliest time that the Afghan government could cover the estimated $4.1 billion annual price tag for security services. The outgoing commander of all U.S. forces in that theater of operations made the …
Continuing U.S. Troop Presence In Iraq
A recent U.S. Marine KIA in Makhmur revealed to the world what many people already knew: There are combat troops in the war-torn country far above the ceiling imposed by the Obama Administration. Staff Sergeant Louis F. Cardin, of Temecula, California, was killed in an ISIS rocket attack at a remote firebase that had been fully operational for less than …
Brain Injury Recovery is Unique to Each Patient
The individualized functions of each person’s brain, along with the organ’s inherent ability to disguise injury to itself, makes head injuries among the most difficult wounds to diagnose among injured contractors. According to Dr. Heechin Chae, director of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) satellite office at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, a broken ankle is a broken ankle. That injury …