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Child Soldiers - What to Do with Them?
Child soldiers may prove to be dangerous opponents even for career soldiers - and thus also in peace support operations.
Resocialising Child Soldiers
Various projects of the Catholic Church help former child soldiers to start a new life, although the programmes do not resolve to the problem itself.
Military Policy: The "European Army” and National Defense-Related Constitutional Legislation
The Invention of the Torpedo
The marine combat asset, invented/developed in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy by Luppis, Whitehead and Obry, has influenced naval warfare decisively and has changed relatively little with regard to its basic design and shape in the past 140 years.
Column: The reform of the reform of the ...?
Gottfried Baron of Banfield, a.k.a. "the Eagle of Trieste”
The successful pilots of World War I, stylised into "knights of the air” by war propaganda, have continued to be very popular until the present day. In addition to the famous German, British and U.S.-American names, there is also one representing the Austro-Hungarian Empire: ship of the line Lieutenant Gottfried Baron of Banfield, a.k.a. "the Eagle of Trieste”
Military Museums: The Irish Battle for the Crown of England
The highly informative visitor centre at the site of the Battle of the Boyne of 1690 instructs on the one-day battle and its European dimension.
Focus: "Semper et ubique - Always and Everywhere”
The Air Support Wing
The Air Support Wing is the only flying unit capable of covering the entire tactical spectrum of air support.
Basic Considerations on the International Operations of the Austrian Armed Forces
This article deals with the principles of building up peace structures in crisis areas.
Information and Communication Technology Security in the AAF: Freedom of opinion - official secrecy - information security
Psychology in Operations - The NATO Workgroup Morale and Effectiveness of a Unit
The ancient Greek general Xenophon already realised: "Neither the number of soldiers nor their physical strength will win victory in war. The army, however, that has the stronger resolve cannot eventually be resisted.”
Psychology: Being a victim to mobbing - now what?
UNIFIL and the Blue Line
The military observer operation as a military geographer and a border marker in southern Lebanon. The Blue Line is a line in the border area of Lebanon, Israel and Syria. Since 2000 the course of the Line has been officially marked in order to increase stability in the region.
Mine Clearing Systems
The article describes how various mine clearance systems work and shows what to expect from them.
Checking the Operability of Stand-by Forces for First Missions by way of the Operational Capabilities Concept Evaluation and Feedback Programme
Operability and field usability are checked in the course of a level 2 evaluation based on the Operational Capabilities Concept Evaluation and Feedback (OCC E&F) Programme.
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