Since 2014, Western militaries renewed their focus from peacekeeping to combat operations against advanced opponents. Russian tactics, as demonstrated in the conflict in Ukraine, relied on massed indirect fires. Facing a (near-) peer adversary keen on using artillery on a massive scale raises the …

Conceptual mathematical models play a crucial role in the development of engineering specifications required in the detailed design process and in the test and evaluation of avionics equipment. Specifying aircraft proximity is a precursor to the development of aircraft Detect and Avoid (DAA) systems …

Georg Frerks promoveerde in 1991 aan de Universiteit Wageningen als ingenieur in de ontwikkelingssociologie en sloot zijn indrukwekkende carrière af als hoogleraar Internationale Veiligheidsstudies aan de Nederlandse Defensie Academie en hoogleraar Conflictpreventie en conflictmanagement aan de Universiteit …

18 geïnterviewde professionals schetsten hun eigen beeld van de versterkingsoperatie en de impact op bewoners en gemeenschappen. Het huidige rapport geeft een totaalbeeld van al deze bijdragen, gebaseerd op overeenkomsten en verschillen die we signaleerden in de visies van professionals. Dit totaalbeeld …

Junior design professionals experience conflicts in collaboration with others, with value differences being one of the issues influencing such conflicts. In a retrospective interview study with 22 design professionals, we collected 32 cases of perceived conflicts. We used a grounded theory approach to …

In recent years, there has been a large increase in the use of uncrewed attack aircraft, or attack drones, in the Yemen conflict. At the same time, the flight endurance and payload capabilities of these uncrewed aerial vehicles seem to have increased significantly. This article presents a flight performance …

This chapter examines the use of deterrence by President Putin of the Russian Federation against potential democratic revolts. It combines insights from the literatures on democratic revolutions and social movements on the one hand and deterrence and coercion on the other. This exploratory research sketches …

Over the last decades the field of “military innovation studies” has proliferated tremendously. In particular, adaptations by armed forces in wartime have received extensive academic attention. The merit of military innovation studies is that it identifies the attributes of military organizations with …

Opbrengsten van een project, waarin samenwerking tussen werkveld en lerarenopleiding rondom de inzet van jeugdliteratuur centraal staat. Het laat zien wat de kracht kan zijn van bekroonde jeugdliteratuur voor het opgroeiende kind, de (aankomende) leraar en de lerarenopleider. In het project participeren …

This article explores how junior design professionals cope with value-based conflicts. We interviewed 22 design professionals about past and current value-based conflicts and the coping strategies adopted. Applying a grounded theory approach, we identified 11 types of coping strategies employed by junior …