Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
This year continues to be a turbulent one, with the devastation caused by hurricanes in the southern United States echoing the natural disasters so close to our own borders earlier…
As I sit here on a holiday long weekend, I am once again assailed by the news that ADF Health Personnel have been deployed to Bali to assist in the…
AM Smith and RF Bellamr
Short of participation in medical support of actual combat, there is no optimal educational medium to facilitate competence in the precepts of wartime casualty care. Consequently, there have been periodic…
The comedy/drama MASH, which concerned the lives of American army medical staff stationed just behind the front lines in the Korean War, was one of the most successful television programs…
This paper discusses high velocity missile wounding caused by military projectiles. For the purpose of this paper, military projectiles considered will be those of eight mm diameter or less, fired…
EARLY TREATMENT With the vastly different technology, and almost primitive surgical skills, available to military commanders at the beginning of the nineteenth century, their attitude towards the wounded would appear…
‘We shot them under rule .303’1 ABSTRACT The .303 military round has been around for over 100 years and went from a round nose projectile full metal jacket, Mks I…
Thermobaric munitions are those munitions that, by design, produce more heat and overpressure than conventional explosives by exploding a vapour in the blast zone. Their main use initially was in…
Non-lethal weapons have seen increasing use in the police forces and, more recently, the military forces of various countries around the world. With increased use in military operations in areas…
“Load up, load up, load up, the rubber bullets”1 INTRODUCTION The Australian Defence Force is becoming more involved in military non-combatant control and peacekeeping in areas such as Timor and…
