Armed forces

do not meet the “Standards of Medical Fitness”, I was devastated. From the time that my best friend informed me that she was joining, I wanted to enlist. I took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in my senior year of high school and scored high enough to qualify for some of the most advanced positions that the Armed Forces had to offer, including those in the skilled technical field. In fact, the scores that I earned in the Verbal, Math, Spatial and Science and Technical domains were…

The Marine Corps has consistently tackled the contentious topic of the expanding role of women in the armed forces. In recent years, some historic upheavals include the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the removal of gender-restrictions on military occupational specialties. Additional amendments are in the critical implementation and testing phase - unisex uniforms, new physical fitness requirements, and changes in retention dynamics. In order to fully understand this multifaceted issue,…

nation knows a thing or two about conducting military operations and impressive warfighting functions as a whole. Considered an initiative thriving cell, and whether the reason was to maximize potential force or to welcome a different perspective, it was the first to allow women into their armed forces in the early 1980s. (Central Intelligence Agency. Central Intelligence Agency. Web. 30 Apr. 2015.…

The history of military robotics dates back to World War II and the Cold War. During those times of spying, weaponry and strategic attacks, these robots were in the form of Germany’s type of robotics and Russian weaponry called “teletanks”. It originated combined with a radio controlled boat intended to use by the military from Nicola Tesla. As the Soviets had created the teletanks, they were modified to be controlled by the radio signals. Weather conditions made it pretty tough to use, but…

is usually made up of the armed forces and the police force. The amount of reliance on the two institutions is decided by the autocrat. Both, Egypt and Chile, were police states to the core. The National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) of Chile and the police force in Egypt, were both created to defend from opposition. The Marxists/socialists in Chile were ruthlessly hunted, as was the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. On the surface these were the main objectives of the forces, but both presidents…

The lifting of the policy is by no means going reduce the efficiency of American armed forces, rather it will serve as advancement for the military through, providing equal opportunity, enhancing military readiness and eliminating gender discrimination. For many years women have been proving themselves worthy to fight next to male…

Tanaka underscores that he is not endeavoring to find out what the Japanese soldiers did but he starts by talking about the similarity in the abuse and crime that were committed by allied armed forces right after the war. From one perspective, for instance, Japanese warriors had an 'individual decision ' in connection to the abuse of comfort women, which they did without thinking twice, so yes it is a very cruel crime and they should own up…

with military forces of countries have increased the recruitment of child soldiers. Specifically, children in the Middle East face a major threat of being recruited as child soldiers ("ISIS Increasingly Recruiting Children To Carry Out Terrorist Acts"). The organization children in the Middle East face the biggest threat from is ISIS. Currently, 60% of ISIS fighters are under the…

weapons of any threat to national security. The anti-federalists argued that the federal control over militia could take away from the states the principle means of defense against federal oppression and usurpation, Besides the advantage of being Armed ,which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of…

factor in military dominance. But, can we go too far, is it possible to take this to such an extreme as to make human soldiers irrelevant? Even if we can go that far, should we? These are the questions we face in the 21st Century. As a military force, the United States has had ‘fire and forget weapons’ since the late 1950’s. These weapons have been able to detect and track a target without additional input from the firing unit since their inception. But, they have always had a weakness, or…