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Major General Professor TJ Hodgetts CB CBE KHS DSc PhD MMEd MBA Chair, Committee of Chiefs of Military Medical Services NATO Headquarters, Boulevard Leopold III, Brussels, Belgium Common Military Medicine Challenges in an Increasingly Unstable World The 45th International Congress on Military Medicine (ICMM) was hosted in Brisbane, Australia, from 16 to 20 September 2024…. Read more »
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Editorial – Somalia – 30 years on On 9 December 1992, United States (US) Marines, under the command of Lieutenant General Robert Johnston, landed on the coast of Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope. 1 General Charles Krulak, in his description of the ‘three block war’, captured some of the complexity of operations in… Read more »
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“For Every Drop Shed in Anguish” In February this year a new sculpture was dedicated in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Its purpose was described as being “a place at the Memorial for those who have experienced and witnessed the ongoing trauma that can result from military service and for visitors… Read more »
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Infectious Diseases in Military Medicine In spending a little less time on COVID-19, I have been reflecting on the role of infectious diseases in military operations, as diseases like tuberculosis, Japanese encephalitis and even syphilis make a resurgence in Australia and overseas. Biselli et al. provide an excellent historical review of the role of military… Read more »
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Vale Colonel Peter Leggatt, AM, ADC, JP, KSTJ As we gather for the first AMMA Conference to be held in Perth, it is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Emeritus Professor and Colonel Peter Leggat on 20 September 2023. Peter graduated in medical science and medicine from the University of Queensland, before… Read more »
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Inaugural Perth AMMA Conference The first AMMA Conference in Perth will be held from 12-15 October 2023. Perth, and wider Western Australia (WA), has had long links to Australian military history and to past and contemporary military strategy. From the initial deployment of the Australian Imperial Force through Albany in 1914 to key submarine bases,… Read more »
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Military Medicine The growth of AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, poses a range of challenges in preparing and publishing articles in journals, including JMVH. As an example, I asked ChatGPT to prepare a brief Editorial on the use of AI in military medicine with references, which is outlined below. While this is… Read more »
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DECEPTION IN WAR AND PEACE Deception of an enemy force in conflict dates back millennia. In the lead up to the second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, Lieutenant General Montgomery initiated a deception plan, Operation Bertram, to mislead the Axis forces on the time, place and direction of any future attacks. This involved… Read more »
Editorial If you want peace
Vegetius wrote these comments sometime in the fourth or fifth century AD. Unfortunately, this observation is as true today as it was then. As military health personnel, with many of us serving in active or reserve roles within the Australian Defence Force. We must always be striving for peace by preparing for conflict. Unlike one,… Read more »
EDITORIAL Disaster Prepared
AS WE GET THIS ISSUE TO PRINT, l am integrally involved with reviewing Disaster Preparedness and Management Plans for the WA Department of Health. Events like the Bali bombing in October 2002, the Waterfall train crash in Sydney, the recent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Asia and Canada, and the continuing threat of… Read more »
EDITORIAL Disaster Prepared…
AS WE GET THIS ISSUE TO PRINT, l am integrally involved with reviewing Disaster Preparedness and Management Plans for the WA Department of Health. Events like the Bali bombing in October 2002, the Waterfall train crash in Sydney, the recent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Asia and Canada, and the continuing threat of… Read more »
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The recent Asian Tsunami has resulted in an unprecedented number of Australia military medical personnel on deployment throughout the world providing both health care to our deployed forces and humanitarian support. Currently, health staff are providing services in the Solomon Islands, the Middle East Area of Operations and Indonesia. Australia’s contingent of personnel involved in… Read more »
Editorial – Russ Schedlich
This issue of Australian Military Medicine concentrates, like the last, on operational medicine, which is the backbone of military medicine. Continuing from their earlier article, Payne et al have analysed data on abdominal gunshot wounds from a major trauma centre to assess the types of injuries, and their outcomes, in victims who do not require… Read more »
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As 1998 draws to a close, it is time to reflect on the past year. It has been a year full of challenge and change, triumph and tragedy. As a result of the Navy’s worst peacetime disaster since the loss of HMAS Voyager in 1964, your erstwhile Editor spent a considerable part of the year… Read more »
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Waxing lyrical as always, your Editor feels a need to touch on a number of diverse topics in his Editorial. A Varied Lot This edition of the Journal offers, once again, a good mix of copy. We start with Ben Fitzgerald’s very good study on fungal infections at sea, which has shown, with statistical credibility,… Read more »
Editorial – Rumours of war
AS WE APPROACH the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the Australian Defence Force remains actively involved in Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf and central Asia, as well as East Timor, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands, and in the seas to our north. For all three Services, this continues to be one of… Read more »
Editorial – And Anthrax …
ANOTHER INTERESTING FORTNIGHT has come to an end, as our ADF ships and personnel pre-deploy to the Gulf. One of the key issues over this period has been the Australian Defence Forces Anthrax Vaccination Program. While generally not controversial, the Anthrax Vaccination Program has reached that status with help from the media and the ADF… Read more »
Editorial – Six months on …
IT IS NOW SIX MONTHS since the tragic and frightening attacks of 11 September (or 9-11 as the Americans now seem to refer to it). The new Bush government has gone from its initial unilateralist and isolationalist stance to a more involved (although still often unilateral) role in world affairs. The Australian Defence Force is… Read more »
Editorial – September 11
What a difference three months makes! When I wrote editorial for the August edition of Australian Military Medicine, I was thinking ahead of the tenth AMMA conference and my vision for the future for the journal. What none of us had planned for were the events of September 11 and its aftermath. September 11, 2001… Read more »
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EIGHTY YEARS ON – EL ALAMEIN For Australians serving in the Second World War, 1942 proved to be a turning point in many theatres. In North Africa, the first and second Battles of El Alamein between July and November 1942 prevented the Axis forces from advancing further into Egypt. The victory was the beginning of… Read more »
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