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Topic: Nonlethal force


In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

  
  Glossary/Definitions of Military Terms Starting with B - MilitaryTerms.INFO
An area or facility from which a military force begins its offensive operations, to which it falls back in case of reverse, and in which supply facilities are organized.
In amphibious operations, the area to the rear of a landing force or elements thereof, established and operated by shore party units, which contains the facilities for the unloading of troops and materiel and the support of the forces ashore; it includes facilities for the evacuation of wounded, enemy prisoners of war, and captured materiel.
Type of weapon operation in which the force of expanding gases acting to the rear against the face of the bolt furnishes all the energy required to initiate the complete cycle of operation.
www.militaryterms.info /about/glossary-b.shtml   (5684 words)

  
 Sampler
Merck’s sales force was actually instructed to tell doctors Vioxx actually protected the heart rather than potentially harming it.
People are being driven out of their homes and areas by force and killed in the streets, and the Americans, Iranians and the Puppets talk of national conferences and progress.
They can use force in connection with self-defense, but a country can't use force in anticipation of self-defense.
www.kysor.blogspot.com   (12667 words)

  
 Air War College Military Index to the Internet, Internet Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Education resources for Guard, Reserve, first response, force protection, etc.
Air Force Center for Knowledge Sharing Lessons Learned
Air Force MOVE home page - moving your stuff - inbound, outbound, PCS, separation, retirement
www.maxwell.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/awc-ndex.htm   (2831 words)

  
 M:\Offices\mqr\april2003\3mqrapr03.HTM
Although human powers extended, as a last resort, to the level of lethal force in order to defend the innocent are nearly always used badly, what is wrong is the use made of something God created good: human abilities.
If everyone agrees that nonlethal force may be employed in the cause of justice, then the debate becomes one of military/activist defense strategy: are there or are there not some instances in which one can defend the innocent only by resort to lethal force?
Certainly the details of just how human abilities of mind and body are used nonlethally and lethally in defense (police work and warfare) are complex and difficult morally, but so too is human sexuality, if one really wishes to avoid merely using another human being (which is always dehumanizing and always sinful).
www.goshen.edu /mqr/pastissues/apr03martin.html   (11229 words)

  
 Ethics Updates - War, Peace, Terrorism, and Military Ethics
Rosalie Bernier: "Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence Ethics Program"
LTC Faber, United States Air Force Academy: "The Ethical-Legal Dimensions of Strategic Bombing During WWII: An Admonition to Current Ethicists"
The General Counsel is also the DoD Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO) who oversees the ethics and standards of conduct programs throughout DoD, including providing guidance to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and DoD Agencies.
ethics.sandiego.edu /Applied/Military/index.asp   (2316 words)

  
 CISSM - Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland |
Theresa Hitchens and Jeffrey Lewis, "Arms Race in Space?
U.S. Air Force Quietly Focuses on Space Control", (Defense News, September 2003)
Elisa D. Harris, "Nonlethal Chemical Weapons Pose Different Threat", (The Baltimore Sun, 03/27/2003)
www.cissm.umd.edu /papers/index.php   (2660 words)

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