Liability of the United States and Canadian Governments for Tortious Conduct of Their Military Personnel

1943 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 188
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Rates and Associated Factors of Secondary Mental Health Care Utilisation among Ex-Military Personnel in the United States: A Narrative Review

Healthcare ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Mark ◽  
Dominic Murphy ◽  
Sharon Stevelink ◽  
Nicola Fear
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Care Utilisation ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Care Utilisation

Little is known about ex-serving military personnel who access secondary mental health care. This narrative review focuses on studies that quantitatively measure secondary mental health care utilisation in ex-serving personnel from the United States. The review aimed to identify rates of mental health care utilisation, as well as the factors associated with it. The electronic bibliographic databases OVID Medline, PsycInfo, PsycArticles, and Embase were searched for studies published between January 2001 and September 2018. Papers were retained if they included ex-serving personnel, where the majority of the sample had deployed to the recent conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan. Fifteen studies were included. Modest rates of secondary mental health care utilisation were found in former military members—for mean percentage prevalence rates, values ranged from 12.5% for at least one psychiatric inpatient episode, to 63.2% for at least one outpatient mental health appointment. Individuals engaged in outpatient care visits most often, most likely because these appointments are the most commonly offered source of support. Post-traumatic stress disorder, particularly re-experiencing symptoms, and comorbid mental health problems were most consistently associated with higher mental health care utilisation. Easily accessible interventions aimed at facilitating higher rates of help seeking in ex-serving personnel are recommended.

“Immaculate War”: Constraints on Humanitarian Intervention

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
American Military ◽  
Political Constraints ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Military

In recent years, American military forces have been deployed in an ever-expanding array of humanitarian, peacekeeping, peacemaking, and nation-building operations. In practice American forces have often been reluctantly committed, and almost always with an extreme emphasis on force-protection and the avoidance of American casualties. Often this issue is discussed in the framework of perceived political constraints on American use of the military – in terms of how many casualties the American public will accept in exchange for a given mission. Beneath the level of the political constraints on American leaders, there lies a deeper tension having to do with the implicit moral contract between the United States and its military personnel. Although military personnel are required to follow all legal orders, morally the traditional contract between soldier and state rests on shared assumptions about the purposes for which national militaries will and will not be used.

“The Army is a Service, Not a Job”: Unionization, Employment, and the Meaning of Military Service in the Late-Twentieth Century United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Jennifer Mittelstadt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
American Federation ◽  
United States Armed Forces ◽  
Public Unions ◽  
Institutional Benefits

AbstractThis article tells the story of an often-forgotten attempt to unionize the United States armed forces in the 1970s. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), an AFL-CIO-affiliated union representing federal employees, voted to allow military personnel to join its union in 1976. Military personnel proved far more open to the bid than expected. Nursing grievances from threatened congressional cuts to their institutional benefits, between one-third and one-half welcomed the union. Though a worried Congress, a powerful military leadership, and skeptical public opinion quashed unionization within the year, the brief episode nevertheless left an influential legacy. Coming just after the difficult transition from the draft to the volunteer force, the union bid forced military leaders, soldiers, and supporters in Congress to defend both military service and military benefits from encroachments of an “occupational” model symbolized by unionization. Their successful distinction between military service and employment elevated the former as uniquely honorable and arduous—and thus deserving of unwavering congressional support. Public unions, the embodiment of the occupational threat to military service, emerged bruised by the comparisons to vaunted military service and endured a decades-long decline in membership and congressional protection.

United States Strikes Houthi-Controlled Facilities in Yemen, Reaffirms Limited Support for Saudi-Led Coalition Notwithstanding Growing Concerns About Civilian Casualties

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-533
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Limited Support ◽  
Joint Planning ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Intelligence Support

Since March 2015, the United States has supported a Saudi-led military coalition fighting a Houthi insurgency that seized control of Yemen's capital and governmental institutions in 2014. At the request of ousted Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the Saudi-led coalition launched an air campaign in Yemen to “defend Saudi Arabia's border and to protect Yemen's legitimate government.” To support these efforts, President Obama authorized the “provision of logistical and intelligence support to [coalition] military operations” and the establishment of a “Joint Planning Cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate U.S. military and intelligence support.” The United States has disclaimed any direct offensive role in the conflict while acknowledging that it has provided support by refueling coalition warplanes, supplying targeting intelligence, and sending U.S. military personnel to assist the planners of the coalition's air campaign.

“Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing”: Barack Obama, the Vietnam War's Legacy, and the Cultural Politics of Military Awards during the Afghanistan War

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-533
Author(s):  
DAVID KIERAN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Afghanistan War ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing ◽  
Do So

This article examines the cultural politics of military awards during the Obama administration. It examines the administration's posthumous recognition of three Vietnam veterans, arguing that the President has embraced a remembrance of the war that encourages Americans to celebrate veterans without regard for the illegal, controversial, or morally questionable activities in which they participated. This effort, I argue, helps build support for the United States' continuing expansion of war fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere by encouraging Americans to adopt a similar perspective regarding current wars – one that celebrates military personnel while not questioning the policies that they pursue or the manner in which they do so.

scholarly journals US footprint transformation in Iraq and Bagdad regime’s sustainability prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Andrey Yevseenko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Regional Factors ◽  
The U.S

U.S. withdrawal from “forever wars” doesn't mean the complete drawdown of U.S. footprint in the Gulf region. That’s one reason why Iraqi political regime won't be toppled. The United States is going to minimize its military presence as well as make it safe for its military personnel. Nevertheless, the U.S. footprint in the Middle East is transforming and adapting for U.S. competition with “revisionist powers.” The United States intends to use their traditional foreign policy toolbox in this struggle. All typical U.S. foreign policy deficiencies, such as absence of the strategic approach, incoherence and lack of foresight, remain. Therefore, all key U.S. issues, which were set on Iraqi direction, will stay unresolved. Their scope and urgency will be contained by objective regional factors and limited U.S. competitors’ potential, not by American influence. 

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