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Category Archives: Militaria

Warfare, Weapons of war, Military history, martial psychology, tactics and strategy, contemporary warfare, military ethics & self-defense

Open Serb hatred must be answered

Friday, February 22, 2008

Belgrade’s Holocaust Memorial - one of several in a city populated by a people famed for their resistance to the Nazis
I am used to reading lies and vitriol about Serbs and Serbia but an article emailed to me today is one of the most racist, hateful and biased articles I have read in a [...]

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European Union Battlegroups

Saturday, January 12, 2008

“European Union battlegroups (EU BGs) are military forces of 1500 combat soldiers under the control of the European Union. There are currently fifteen, mostly multi-national groups who rotate actively so that two are ready for deployment at any one time.
The battlegroups reached full operational capacity on 1 January 2007. They are based on existing ad [...]

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Last thing Serbia needs

Friday, November 16, 2007

From Channel 4 website:
A video obtained by a charity shows the life for many inside Serb mental hospitals amounts to a version of hell. Unending cruelty if not by design, then by neglect. And yet tonight Serbia’s Prime Minister said it’s all “fabricated” and “malicious”. Source: Channel 4 - News - Serbia’s secret shame
This [...]

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Silent Minds

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The New Yorker serves up a brilliant article this week on how fMRI scans of people in a “vegetative state” have revealed astonishing evidence that many have an active mental life, and some might argue may actually be conscious.
The findings are having powerful effect on not just the diagnosis of individuals with brain injuries, but the very concept [...]

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APA military mental health special

Friday, October 5, 2007

From
Mind Hacks: APA military mental health special:
“The latest edition of the American Psychological Association’s monthly magazine has a special feature on military mental health.
The issue is timely, as mental illness in the US military is at an all time high and military mental health services were recently described as ‘woefully inadequate’ by a Pentagon task [...]

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