Battle Zone Research Articles

The Border Between Us: Contact Zone or Battle Zone?

The Border Between Us: Contact Zone or Battle Zone?

Children living through a desert storm

Mental health professionals have long been concerned about how children react to war. This paper reports a small, naturalistic study of how children reacted to Operation Desert Storm. Although no actual danger threatened these affluent east coast children, television transported the battle zone's gory pictures right into the living room. That experience had a deep impact on many children. Not only did they empathize with the wounded and maimed; they also resented the way injured people's privacy was invaded and were bewildered by news reporters' “bizarre” behavior when danger was imminent.

Desert Shield Makes History

AS DIPLOMATS have sought to defuse the Iraq-Kuwait crisis, military medicine has deployed more sophisticated resources a greater distance more rapidly than ever in history for the Desert Shield operation. In case of war, military physicians would rely on aeromedical evacuation, such as is done with the Air Force's C-9 Nightingale (top); on the hospital ships Mercy and Comfort , shown steaming together in the Persian Gulf (center); and on helicopter removal of wounded soldiers or marines from the battle zone, as is under way in this training exercise (bottom) (Air Force, Army, Navy photos)

Desert Shield makes history

AS DIPLOMATS have sought to defuse the Iraq-Kuwait crisis, military medicine has deployed more sophisticated resources a greater distance more rapidly than ever in history for the Desert Shield operation. In case of war, military physicians would rely on aeromedical evacuation, such as is done with the Air Force's C-9 Nightingale (top); on the hospital ships Mercy and Comfort , shown steaming together in the Persian Gulf (center); and on helicopter removal of wounded soldiers or marines from the battle zone, as is under way in this training exercise (bottom) (Air Force, Army, Navy photos)

I. The Army Air Corps Requirement

The squadrons of the Army Air Corps are intended for deployment with ground troops in the forward battle zone in roles which include reconnaisance, observation, fire direction and, to a limited extent, the movement of men and material. These roles indicate the nature of the navigational requirement.

Vieques Island Battle Zone

Vieques Island Battle Zone

Collective Bargaining with Faculty Unions: Reports from the Battle Zone

Collective Bargaining with Faculty Unions: Reports from the Battle Zone

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION WITHIN CLONES OF THE SEA ANEMONE ANTHOPLEURA ELEGANTISSIMA.

The aggregating form of the anemone Anthopleura elegantissima often lives in closely packed groups composed of genetically identical individuals. These clonal aggregations remain separated from each other because contact between non-clonemates elicits intraspecific aggression (Francis, 1973a & b). Since the anemones live in a dependable environment, are long-lived, have indeterminate growth, and reproduce sexually and asexually, and since predation does not appear to be severe, intraspecific competition for space is quite important. The ability to distinguish clonemates from non-clonemates allows the anemones to benefit from group living while interfering with all other conspecific competitors. A high proportion of the costs of this intraspecific aggression is paid by the anemones living at interclonal borders. The interclonal border warriors have more and larger acrorhagi (specialized structures used in intraspecific aggression) than clonemates elsewhere in the aggregation and were without gonads in June when many of their clonemates were ripe. They are smaller on an average than midclone anemones but not smaller than clonemates from an edge of the aggregation remote from other clones. In the field, the fission rates of warrior anemones is not higher, and may be lower than that of clonemates in other parts of the same aggregation. Lack of gonads, small size, and low fission rates probably indicate that the warriors have less energy available for growth and reproduction than do their clonemates away from the battle zone. Without physical connections among the individuals, the ability to coordinate and communicate is limited. Each anemone responds to its particular circumstances, and in so doing may fortuitously benefit its clonemates. Natural selection acts on the genotype (the clone). This is a very simple form of social organization both functionally and evolutionarily.

Lesions of human bronchial tract caused by incendiary bombs containing phosphorus.

THE PURPOSE of this paper is to investigate and answer the question whether gases (oxides) of phosphorus cause lesions of the human bronchial tract. In order to investigate this subject guinea pigs were used for the experiment. A number of them were exposed to the oxides of burning phosphorus in order to confirm certain clinical suspicions that arose from the actual subjection of human beings to the toxic effects of phosphorus bombs. This kind of research is of practical value not only to actual combat troops but also to civilians far from the battle zone, since nations in modern warfare use phosphorus bombs extensively. This type of bomb was used with considerable success during World War II and in Korea. According to the modern conception of warfare, civilians are also exposed to the effects of phosphorus bombs. As such, civilians have the right to know how a phosphorus bomb acts

Some Recent Material on the Saar

SIXTEEN years have elapsed since the coal, the steel, and the people of the Saar were handed over to the Third Reich; six years separate us from the collapse of Adolf Hitler and the occupation of the Saar area by Allied forces, who found this more than any other battle zone a mere heap of rubble. (In May I945 military government units of the U.S. Fifteenth Army took over the area as a part of the district Saar-Palatinate-Hesse, to be relieved in July by the French.) In spite of all the change and destruction, which transformed Berlin, Le Havre, and Saarbruck (where 43 per cent of all houses were demolished),2 the Saar problem in I95I is still so close to being the strictly national question it was in I9I9 that the publications concerning it may safely be classified according to the country of origin. Is it possible, in fact, to find with any people such unanimity of all parties, all circles, from the first to the last of its citizens, as well as among its ministers?3 one of the leading Saar experts of France proudly exclaims in regard to the topic. To this rhetorical question one may answer with the official Saar Communist declaration: There is no German political group, from the extreme left to the extreme right, that would agree to the political separation of the Saar territory from Germany.4 These two statements require some qualifications, however; they cannot, for example, be applied to the Saar territory itself,

Rebuilding the French Battle Zone

Rebuilding the French Battle Zone

Nesting Mothers of Battle Zone

Essay| July 01 1917 Nesting Mothers of Battle Zone: Bird Life Where Cannons Roar Current History (1917) 6_Part-2 (1): 140–142. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1917.6P2.1.140 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nesting Mothers of Battle Zone: Bird Life Where Cannons Roar. Current History 1 July 1917; 6_Part-2 (1): 140–142. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1917.6P2.1.140 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1917 by The Regents of the University of California1917 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.