Journal of the Constitutional convention of the commonwealth of Virginia to amend the Constitution of Virginia for voting by certain members of the armed forces. Held in the old hall of the House of delegates in the state Capitol at Richmond April 30, May 1, 2, 22, 1945 [and]

J. Sinclair Brown, president of the convention

Beyond the Pay: Current Illicit Activities of the Armed Forces in Central America

The growth of criminal gangs and organized crime groups has created unprecedented challenges in Central America. Homicide rates are among the highest in the world, countries spend on average close to 10 percent of GDP to respond to the challenges of public insecurity, and the security forces are frequently overwhelmed and at times coopted by the criminal groups they are increasingly tasked to counter. With some 90 percent of the 700 metric tons of cocaine trafficked from South America to the United States passing through Central America, the lure of aiding illegal traffickers through provision of arms, intelligence, or simply withholding or delaying the use of force is enormous. These conditions raise the question: to what extent are militaries in Central America compromised by illicit ties to criminal groups? The study focuses on three cases: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. It finds that: Although illicit ties between the military and criminal groups have grown in the last decade, militaries in these countries are not yet “lost’ to criminal groups. Supplying criminal groups with light arms from military stocks is typical and on the rise, but still not common. In general the less exposed services, the navies and air forces, are the most reliable and effective ones in their roles in interdiction. Of the three countries in the study, the Honduran military is the most worrying because it is embedded in a context where civilian corruption is extremely common, state institutions are notoriously weak, and the political system remains polarized and lacks the popular legitimacy and political will needed to make necessary reforms. Overall, the armed forces in the three countries remain less compromised than civilian peers, particularly the police. However, in the worsening crime and insecurity context, there is a limited window of opportunity in which to introduce measures targeted toward the military, and such efforts can only succeed if opportunities for corruption in other sectors of the state, in particular in law enforcement and the justice system, are also addressed. Measures targeted toward the military should include: Enhanced material benefits and professional education opportunities that open doors for soldiers in promising legitimate careers once they leave military service. A clear system of rewards and punishments specifically designed to deter collusion with criminal groups. More effective securing of military arsenals. Skills and external oversight leveraged through combined operations, to build cooperation among those sectors of the military that have successful and clean records in countering criminal groups, and to expose weaker forces to effective best practices.

Variable stability research aircraft. Submitted to the Panel on Acceleration Stress of the Armed Forces, National Research Council Committee on Bio-Astronautics, Woods Hole Conference, 16-24 July, 1959.

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Bundeswehr 3.0: The political, military and social dimensions of the reform of the German armed forces. OSW Point of View Number 28, May 2012

This reform of the Bundeswehr, launched in 2011, is the latest of the three decisive stages in the post-war transformation of the German armed forces. The reform aims at “constructing” the armed forces anew in the political, military and social dimensions.The present paper presents the evolution of the role of the armed forces in German foreign and security policy and the ongoing process of “constructing” a new Bundeswehr. It analyses the process of redefining the objectives and principles of: the Bundeswehr’s participation in international operations, its current military transformation, and changes in its image and social identity. It also presents the implications of this broader transformation for political and military.

Employment of retired commissioned officers by contractors of the Department of Defense and the Armed Forces : report (to accompany H.R. 10959)

"March 21, 1960."

Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 2007 : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, on S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the armed forces, and for other purposes.

"March 7, 29, April 4, 6, 2006"--Pt. 7.

Methods for changing consumer attitudes: a report of three experiments. Prepared for Quartermaster Food & Container Institute for the Armed Forces

At head of title: PRA report 61-2, Feb. 1961.

[Food for the Armed Forces.]

Includes bibliographies.

Brassey's annual; the armed forces year-book.

Imprint varies: 1886-1913, Portsmouth, J. Griffin.--1914-44, London, W. Clowes.--1945-7 , New York, Macmillan.

DDT and other insecticides and repellents developed for the armed forces /

"Interim report no. 0-100 (NRC Insect control committee Report no. 100). A report to the Committee on medical research on work done under a transfer of funds, recommended by this committee, from the Office of scientific research and development to the Bureau of entomology and plant quarantine."--Foot-note, p. 1.

How to make training surveys; curriculum techniques for training in school, college, business, industry, civil service, and the armed forces.

"Temporary edition."

Voting in the armed forces; report, March 4, 1952.

Mode of access: Internet.

Unified Jewish religious education curriculum : resource guide for the Armed Forces /

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