Unmanned Systems in Overseas Contingency Operations

Held on 10 May at the National Defense University, this Emerging Challenges event included:

• Current and Emerging Unmanned Technologies: Changing Landscapes of Air, Land, Sea and Space Operations
• Replacing the Warrior and the Decision Maker: Ethics, Legalities and defining the OODA Loop
• Warfighter's Perspective Panel
• Policy, Budget Issues and Constraints for Unmanned Systems

Psychological Hardiness and Coping Style as Risk/Resilience Factors for Alcohol Abuse
By COL Paul T. Bartone, MS USA, Sigurd W. Hystad, PhD, CDR Jarle Eid, Navy Medical Services Corps, and John I. Brevik, MD
Published in Military Medicine, Vol. 177, May 2012

Alcohol abuse is a growing problem in the military, and a costly one. The present study evaluates the potential role of psychological hardiness, an individual resilience resource, to stress-related problem drinking in a military population. We assess the association of psychological hardiness and avoidance coping style with alcohol use patterns in a large national sample of Norwegian military defense personnel. This research indicates that hardiness and avoidance coping measures may serve as useful adjunct screening tools for alcohol abuse in the military.

New Publications

DTP 92: Enhancing Army S&T Vol. II: The Future

by John W. Lyons and Richard Chait

The Army team at CTNSP has been doing technology studies for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology since 2003. In 2007 we published Enhancing Army S&T: Lessons Learned from Project Hindsight Revisited, which we refer to here as Vol. I. That publication was a summary of critical technology contributions to the development of four successful Army warfighting systems. Since then, we have completed a number of studies of important aspects of the Army science and technology (S&T) program with an emphasis on the Army laboratories. In the present paper, Vol. II, we integrate the findings of these studies and make recommendations after each chapter, as well as in a separate final chapter.

Financial E-Structure Vulnerabilities
28 June 2012