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	The Essence of “Military Preparedness”
		From the times past we could thus deduce that military preparedness was a matter of life and death for some and a proud ostentationsness and a symbolic sign of grandeur for others without paying too much attention to its effectiveness and the other side’s strength.
		The traditional outlook of military preparedness was, therefore, concentrating more on the style and class of the soldiers and less on the skill of the leaders and the quality of men and war materials including the communication and logistic requirements which are necessary and corollary streams of modern warfare.
		In modern times, military preparedness for the most part of it is concerned with the quality of its strategic leadership, military personnel, hardware, communication, transportation and logistics generally.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2000/06/23-06-00/Esse.htm (948 words)

	Roosevelt, Theodore. 1900. The Strenuous Life; Essays and Addresses: XI. Military Preparedness and Unpreparedness
		M. Loti's views on military matters need not detain us, for his attitude toward the war was merely the attitude of continental Europe generally, in striking contrast to that of England.
		Now, as all sound military judges knew in advance must inevitably be the case, the experience of the Spanish war completely falsified every prediction of this kind.
		If disaster comes through lack of preparedness, the fault necessarily lies far less with the men under whom the disaster actually occurs than with those to whose wrongheadedness or short-sighted indifference in time past the lack of preparedness is due.
	www.bartleby.com /58/11.html (3097 words)

	“Military Preparedness”- Its Essence
		Military preparedness in a country like the United States is prompted by skilled manpower, industrial capacity, organisational ability, and great wealth.
		Military preparedness is, therefore, a factor that affects national and international life, and an essential instrument of foreign policy that assures a nation, according to its power status, a rightful place in the international.
		France found in her own military preparedness the answer to such a unified policy in which she was denied the "tri-partite" global leadership of nuclear strategy of the West.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2000/06/30-06-00/Milit.htm (1126 words)

	Audit Report - Tactical Fighter Operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Specific military preparedness requirements for the TFG are derived from the Chief of the Defence Force Preparedness Directive (CPD), the principal Defence document on the military preparedness requirements of the Australian Defence Force.
		Military preparedness is the ability of a military force to undertake operations in a timely manner (readiness) and to sustain those operations (sustainability).
		However, the longer-term preparedness goals implicit in the requirement to maintain core skills have not been agreed by Defence and it is therefore impossible to form a judgement on whether all the CPD requirements relating to capability have been met.
	anao.gov.au /WebSite.nsf/Publications/4A256AE90015F69B4A25691400053020 (11904 words)

	Audit Report - Defence Force Preparedness Management Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Preparedness outcomes are linked with a range of other outcomes sought by Defence, such as military capability development and contributing to the Government’s international policy commitments.
		Preparedness levels are determined with reference to specific mission, or war fighting, scenarios and the time at which they might be needed for such tasking.
		Finally, the preparedness of a force is driven by a sound appreciation of the period for which a force may need to be engaged and therefore sustained.
	anao.gov.au /WebSite.nsf/Publications/104D5640E6E65729CA256E7D0074C4E5 (15764 words)

	Texas Governor Rick Perry - Texas Military Preparedness Commission
		The TMPC's mission is to preserve and expand Texas' military installations and their missions and assist communities that have been impacted by a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action.
		Because the military is such an important part of our heritage, Texans must provides recommendations to the State and Federal legislature.
		The Texas Military Preparedness Commission is statutorily required to meet quarterly.
	www.governor.state.tx.us /divisions/tmpc (459 words)

	Military Surplus, Disaster Preparedness and Camping - Major Surplus and Survival Warehouse. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Military Surplus, Disaster Preparedness and Camping - Major Surplus and Survival Warehouse.
		Disaster preparedness tips and supplies, water barrels, food and water storage, mylar bags, emergency kits, earthquake kits, food storage supplies, dehydrated food, freeze dried food, MREs, lamps, stoves, clothing.
		We have a wide selection of military surplus sleeping bags from around the world that have been field tested in all climates and all countries.
	www.majorsurplusnsurvival.com (539 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The resulting strain placed on the military is having a disastrous impact on the safety of the U.S. armed forces—and on the country as a whole.
		For example, the “stop-loss” policy imposed by the Pentagon allows military commanders to hold soldiers past the date they are due to leave the service if their unit is scheduled to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
		In the meantime, many military families were forced to buy armor for their sons or daughters in uniform at their own expense and ship it to Iraq.
	www.fpleadership.org /exec/content/108-154-155-index.htm (1784 words)

	78(R) SB 652 - Enrolled version - Bill Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Military Preparedness Act represents a proactive response to the presently evolving transformation of national defense strategies.
		Sales and leases of upland within 2,500 feet of a military base may not be made unless the commissioner or the commissioner's designee, after consultation with appropriate military authorities, determines that the sale or lease will not adversely affect the mission of the military base.
		(e) The Texas Military Preparedness Commission is authorized to employ the same number of full-time equivalent employees as the Office of Defense Affairs to exercise the powers and perform the duties transferred under this section.
	www.capitol.state.tx.us /tlo/78R/billtext/SB00652F.HTM (5760 words)

	Missouri Military Preparedness and Enhancement Commission (MMPEC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Missouri Military Preparedness and Enhancement Commission was established in 2005 when Governor Matt Blunt signed Senate Bill 252 into law.
		The commission will also serve as a clearinghouse for information regarding federal actions affecting military installations and their potential impact on the state and local communities.
		"Military bases in Missouri have had a positive impact on our state's economy, and the men and women who serve on them have become important members of our communities while providing vital services to our Armed Forces," Governor Blunt stated at the signing.
	www.mmpec.ded.mo.gov (164 words)

	Australia's Military Preparedness: One Man's View [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was a military Mosin Nagant action which was redesigned with a re -manufactured bolt and fitted with scope mounts, new barrel, and a one piece plastic stock, made entirely in Gympie.
		‘Military Intelligence’ is a famous contradiction in terms, so to is a government which is supposed to be concerned with the defence of its citizens spending $500,000 in the destruction of its Civilian Small Arms and its Small Arms Industry.
		Then, when they find themselves with military force and the means of practicing geopolitics at their command, they grossly misuse, indeed waste, the assets that their professional soldiers have husbanded for them.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39af9cd96fa1.htm (8867 words)

	ED259209 1985-00-00 Vocational Education and Defense Preparedness. Overview. ERIC Digest No. 39.
		Collaborative efforts of vocational education, the military services, and defense-related industries have been renewed to meet the defense preparedness needs of the nation.
		Military training needs are large scale; over 2 million personnel are in the active Armed Forces and over 350,000 more are recruited per year.
		Specialized skill training, the military term for vocational education, is actually broader than vocational education because it includes training in combat skills.
	www.thememoryhole.org /edu/eric/ed259209.html (1301 words)

	2005-2006 Bill 522: Military Preparedness and Enhancement Act - www.scstatehouse.net - LPITS
		It is evident that the General Assembly must develop programs to assist communities in adding military value to their local defense installations if South Carolina is to maintain its strong military heritage and presence and the South Carolina Military Preparedness and Enhancement Act constitutes one means to attain these multiple objectives.
		To be eligible for appointment by the Governor, a person must have demonstrated experience in economic development, the defense industry, military installation operation, environmental issues, finance, local government, or the use of air space for future military missions.
		When a commander of a military installation receives a copy of the evaluation criteria for the base under the United States Department of Defense base realignment or closure process, the base commander may request that the commission coordinate assistance from other state agencies to assist the commander in preparing the evaluation.
	www.scstatehouse.net /sess116_2005-2006/bills/522.htm (3039 words)

	Senator Inhofe Fights for Military Preparedness
		The military brass has considered Vieques an indispensable training center because it allows soldiers to undergo "amphibious-assault" training for land, sea and air forces.
		In fact, in any given meeting with the Senator, it could be taken for granted that regardless of what business you wanted to discuss with him, eventually he would bring up Vieques and the necessity of maintaining our training there.
		On August 1st, the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives passed a measure that prohibits the closing of the Navy firing range on Vieques until a replacement can be found that is "as good or better" than the current location.
	www.freecongress.org /commentaries/2001/010803NSfcc.asp (782 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Military preparedness; Zionism; David Helfgott; etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		...In sum, during the final decade or so of the cold war, American military forces were used only for narrowly tailored purposes and, with a few exceptions, for very limited periods of time, and the deployment of ground forces was avoided to the extent possible...
		...While their criticism of American military policy may be valid, they could have chosen better historical examples to illustrate it...
		...military forces ["Could We Fight a War If We Had To?," May], Frederick W. Kagan and David T Fautua list seven "crises" to which the Bush and Clinton administrations responded by sending military force...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V104I3P5-1.htm (8687 words)

	Preserving new world order requires military preparedness, Hoover scholar says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		STANFORD -- The United States should maintain its military forces because "tensions between differing national, religious and minority groups are now more likely to result in violence" than during the Cold War, a Hoover scholar says.
		The United States should not "abandon its [current] military forces for the miniscule, ill-equipped army of the 1920s and early 1930s" that is being recommended by legislators eager to spend the "peace dividend," writes Thomas H. Henriksen in a monograph published recently by the Hoover Institution.
		While the temptation exists to decrease military preparedness and readiness in light of the collapse of the Soviet empire, "modern forces, with their reliance on highly trained crews and electronically sophisticated weapons, are not easily rebuilt," he says.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/92/920310Arc2364.html (520 words)

	Iran News - Iranian army chief urges military preparedness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Armed forces, especially students of higher military science courses, must be ready to confront any probable threats and attacks of aliens," he told a group of army cadets and their trainers.
		Tehran, which has held no diplomatic relations with Washington since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, is anxious about US military build-up on its doorsteps in the Persian Gulf littoral Arab states as well as Afghanistan and Central Asia.
		Salimi asked Iranian commanders as well as trainees of military colleges and their trainers to "make scientific and tactical exploitation from the prevailing situation in the region and maintain their optimal preparedness by examining military issues of the warring countries and identifying their weak and strong points".
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=14954&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs (908 words)

	Republicans on defensive over US military preparedness
		US Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney and other party leaders countered charges Sunday that their presidential candidate, George W. Bush, had exaggerated in his claims the US military was ill-prepared to fight wars.
		"Our military is low on parts, pay and morale," the Texas governor said in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia earlier this month, adding that two divisions of the Army were currently not ready for duty.
		On the Sunday talk shows, two Republican lawmakers did not dispute that under the administration of President Bill Clinton the number of soldiers receiving food assistance had fallen to 5,000, from 19,000 under the Republicans.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/missiles-00e.html (806 words)

	Notes to Friedrich Albert Lange
		It should be emphasized that gymnastics in the German nineteenth-century context cannot be thought of merely as a hobby.
		Gymnastics organizations, indeed one can say the gymnastics movement as a whole, were part of an emphasis on physical fitness that was seen as going hand-in-hand with military preparedness in the face of French expansionism.
		It was part of a growing sense of nationalism and an unwillingness on the part of the growing middle classes to settle for the German Confederation created by the Congress of Vienna.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/friedrich-lange/notes.html (352 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Kahn, Julius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He studied law in San Francisco, was elected (1892) to the state legislature, and was admitted (1894) to the bar.
		Kahn served (1899-1903, 1905-24) in the U.S. House of Representatives and became noted chiefly as an advocate of military preparedness.
		He helped draft and secure the passage of the National Defense Act of 1915, the Selective Draft Act of 1917, and the National Defense Act of 1920.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kahn-Jul.asp (325 words)

	Center for Military Readiness +++
		Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, is pleased to announce the appointment of John "Jack" Wesley Yoest, Jr., as Vice President of CMR, effective June 1, 2006.
		Episodic sex scandals have swept through the military with the fury of Category Five hurricanes, destroying careers, depressing morale, and altering the cultural landscape.
		Feminist activists and their friends in the media keep insisting that military women strongly desire the “opportunity” to serve in land combat units.
	www.cmrlink.org (1033 words)

	The Hindu : Musharraf reviews military preparedness
		ISLAMABAD, DEC. 29 The Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, tonight complimented what was termed as `overall state of preparedness and vigilance' of various formations of the military to the Indian ``unprecedented'' build-up on the borders.
		A statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that senior military officers were present on the occasion.
		He complimented the overall state of preparedness and vigilance being exercised by various formations.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/12/30/stories/2001123005040800.htm (266 words)

	Military Preparedness
		It took two men to fire it, and they were lucky to be standing on their feet after they dispatched the first round.
		Personnel are leaving for private-sector careers because of poor compensation – the shabby quality of life on bases, and, in some cases, lack of leadership.
		Between major conflicts, it has always been the task of the much-maligned profession of arms to strive for a semblance of military preparedness.
	www.cda-cdai.ca /quarterly/quarterly3-3-3.htm (579 words)

	Section 41-1010 Missouri military preparedness and enha
		Missouri military preparedness and enhancement commission established, purpose, members, duties.
		To be eligible for appointment by the governor, a person shall have demonstrated experience in economic development, the defense industry, military installation operation, environmental issues, finance, local government, or the use of air space for future military missions.
		Appointed members of the commission shall serve three-year terms, except that of the initial appointments made by the governor, two shall be for one-year terms, two shall be for two-year terms, and one shall be for a three-year term.
	www.moga.state.mo.us /statutes/C000-099/0410001010.HTM (714 words)

	☞ military - world military rank - world military rank online guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Military rank, or, more commonly, simply rank, is a system of...
		The military rank system is a means of...
		The American military is the best educated in the world, and this reinforces the...
	www.military-101.info /military-rank/world-military-rank.html (621 words)

	Earth Operations Central: United States Military Preparedness
		It should also be noted that with the unparallelled advances in technology seen in this last century, militaries will have to perceive and react to new warfighting paradigms, situations and methodologies, which may eventually evolve in the intensively-intercommunicative research or private-sectors as or more-rapidly than within the "closed-and-compartmentalized" military research, development, manufacturing and deployment communities.
		The military advantage goes to the nation who has the best cycle time to capture technologies that are commercially available, incorporate them in weapon systems and get them fielded first.
		USEUCOM is a unified combatant command whose mission is to maintain ready forces to conduct the full spectrum of military operations unilaterally or in concert with the coalition partners; to enhance transatlantic security through support of NATO; to promote regional stability; and advance U.S. interests in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
	earthops.org /preparedness.htm (2065 words)

	The Henry L. Stimson Center - CBW Chronicle - GAO, DOD Question Military Preparedness for Chemical and Biological ...
		Evidence presented in a 1 October 2002 congressional hearing before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations, indicates the US military may not be properly prepared in the event of a chemical or biological attack.
		According to a GAO report, the military, mistakenly believing there was an excess of the JSLIST suits, sold many of them for $3 on eBay.
		In addition to equipment and inventory problems, the GAO found chemical and biological warfare training to be inadequate in some branches of the military.
	www.stimson.org /cbw?SN=CB20030212494 (610 words)

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