The author is a young officer, recently graduated from the NLDA, whose convoy was struck by a suicide attack in Afghanistan. Jessica van Hees describes the attack and its aftermath, her reactions and the emotions that overcame her during and particularly after the events. She describes the formalist …

Herman Koolstra demonstrates the capacities and limitations of airpower, particularly from the technological point of view. He concludes that airpower is limited in fighting unconventional wars due to the brief exposure of the enemy, both to direct air attack and to the intelligence apparatuses which …

The authors describes his experiences as head of the international effort to reconstitute officer training after the regime change in Iraq. Hilderink distinguishes between three roles: individual, team member, and commander. He describes how awareness of the threat suddenly becomes acute when circumstances, …

sportdoorverwijssysteem Summary This report gives a description of the development of a sports-referral system and an implementation plan for this system. The target group for which it was developed are stroke patients on the policlinical rehabilitation department in the Sint Maartens Gasthuis (SMG). …

'Information Operations' can only be understood in the broader context of change and continuity. 'Cyberspace' is, like land, sea, air and space, a dimension in which war can be waged. Where defence is a necessity while attack is a possibility. There is a close relationship between 'Information Based …

It is widely accepted that the application of new information technologies has a significant impact on today's warfare and crisis management and that this impact will only grow in the near future. This article examines several advantages and disadvantages of these technological developments with regard …

Paper that discusses both military and civil aspects of Information Assurance. It provides the reader with an overview of the clear and present threats from cyberspace on the Armed Forces and society as a whole. A cyber attack taxonomy ordered both by hacking method and reason of attack is presented. …

This paper takes Australia as a case study and asks specifically where, how, and why Australia's critical infrastructure might be at risk. By examining the core elements of the National Information Infrastructure (NII), such as power distributions systems, telecommunications and financial networks, it …

The author re-examines the the Bosnian-Serb attack on Srebrenica. His analysis focusses on the initial stage before the fall of the enclave. He tries to introduce a different perspective on the way key decision-makers of UNPROFOR in Srebrenica (Karremans), Sarajevo (Smith, Nicolai) and Zagreb (Janvier), …

Field experiments were carried out in 1991 and 1992 on sandy soil highly infested with the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida. Half the trial area was fumigated with nematicide to establish two levels of nematode density. Three levels of soil compaction were made by different combinations of artificial …