The quality of the men and women recruited to join the military services declined in the last year, Pentagon statistics reveal.But the Pentagon said Wednesday that "overall, recruit quality was excellent" and that all four military services met or exceeded their goals for signing up as many ...
However, long periods of civil war took its toll on the population and the legions, and military institutions began to slowly degenerate in much the same manner as political and social institutions. Recruitment eventually shifted tothe border provinces, and much later still it developed akin to th...
The spread of the epidemic was favoured by the occurrence of two military episodes in which Marcus Aurelius himself took part: the Parthian War in Mesopotamia and the wars against the Marcomanni in northeastern Italy, in Noricum and in Pannonia. Accounts of the clinical features of the epidemic...
The 1940-1969 success began with 1) public recognition of a dramatic shortage of psychiatrists to serve in the military and treat casualties and 2) the fervor of the community mental health movement, which promised to prevent mental illness; massive resources were provided for psychiatry during ...
Moreover, the transport of the goods from the provinces to the capital was the responsibility of the taxed, which involved an enormous labor for those living in distant parts. Adult males were also obliged to give military service and to provide labor for public works at the command of the ...
ATHENS, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Despite rising tourist arrivals in recent years, the annual revenues for those working in the tourism sector have declined as visitors are spending less money on average, a survey released Tuesday by the Labor Institute of GSEE, the umbrella union of private sector...
military.) Roughly three months shy of the decade anniversary after the Soviet collapse, the 9/11 terror attacks dramatically reversed whatever democratic trends there were in the 1990s – admittedly a decade full of civil wars and ethnic cleansings in various regions throughout the planet. New ...
Following military defeats in Syria and Iraq, IS shifted its attention to the Sahel, with deaths from terrorism rising ten times in the region since 2007. The Sahel has become the new epicentre of terrorism. Terrorism in the region is compounded by high population growth, lack of adequate wate...
Realists however have long challenged this established liberal “orthodoxy.” China and the U.S. are on a path toward escalating confrontation, and both states engage in comprehensive balancing from the economy to military to technology to diplomacy. Chimerica has been a phantom; a figment of ima...
The remarkable thing about these developments was that the solution became once again to restore Augustus’ “power-sharing” relationship between the Princeps, the Senate, and the Military Commanders on the frontiers. In short, the constitutional architecture of Augustus survived both madmen at the ...