Abstract
AN EVOLVING "new world order" is placing heavy demands on US military medicine. Air Force, Army, and Navy physicians were warned at a recent military medical school conference in Bethesda, Md ( JAMA . 1992;268:577-578), that the world is in a state of "violent peace." Some 120 conflicts of various intensities have greeted this new year ( JAMA . 1992;268:3480). One of the most dramatic, of course, is the conflict among clans in chaotic Somalia on the horn of Africa ( JAMA . 1992;268:1985-1987 and 1991;265:1791-1797). About 28150 US troops have launched Operation Restore Hope there in recent days, with some 50 military physicians—working with other military medical personnel—to look after their health needs and sometimes those needs of part of the medically deprived populace. Somalia Just One of Many Elsewhere in Africa, the Air Force supported the United Nations—sponsored Operation Provide Transition, deploying a flight surgeon to Luanda, Angola, with 80 personnel and three C-130
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