Warfare & Defence

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military service-members. Topics discussed in this is...

The psychological health of active duty service-members has been an issue of significant concern for Congress in recent years, with particular atte...

Over 1.9 million warriors have deployed for Operation Iraq Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, two of our Nation''''s longest conflicts. The ph...

In this book, the authors discuss topical issues relating to veterans including transfusion therapy for veteran patients; low serum vitamin D and i...

Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave, was wounded by a roadside bomb that sent shrapnel through his brain. Kayla waited anxiously fo...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), operates the nation''''s largest integrated direct health...

Rarely does a piece of history emerge to tell a significant tale after nearly 70 years in a bedroom drawer. Recovered and brought back to Britain i...

Trauma-Informed Care for Women Veterans Experiencing Homelessness was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Women''''s Bureau (WB) as ...

Recognising the special burdens that members of the military may encounter trying to meet their financial obligations while serving their country, ...

The Medal of Honor (MoH)is the highest award for bravery that can be given to any individual in the United States of America. Conceived in the earl...

In fiscal year 2012, various VA education programs provided nearly $11 billion in education payments to almost 1 million veterans. The 2008 Post-9/...

In 2013, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimated that about 1.5 million veterans required mental health care, including services for Majo...

The primary objective of the military health system, which includes the Defense Department''''s hospitals, clinics, and medical personnel, is to ma...

The unemployment rate for all veterans has risen since the beginning of the economic downturn, but the unemployment rate for Native Americans livin...

The United States increasingly relies on unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones, to target insurgent and terrorist groups around the worl...

Since the United States began combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 and then in Iraq in March 2003, the numbers of US soldiers killed ex...

During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British ...

Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape....

A Canadian medical officer and prisoner of war returns from the Second World War a hero and a very different man.In August 1941, John Reid, a youn...