Background: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been described as an independent risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia. At the same time, cognitive deterioration and increased loss experiences in dementia may increase liability for the reactivation of traumatic memories and thereby PTSD …

Public Summary Talk Up Front The Influence of Language Matters on International Military Missions with a Particular Focus on the Cooperation between Soldiers and Interpreters Andrea van Dijk How do language issues affect military operations, and how in particular do soldiers and interpreters cooperate …

This book examines change processes and the challenge of ambidexterity in military organizations. It discusses how military organizations can better adapt to the complex, and at times chaotic, environments they operate in by developing organizational ambidexterity. The authors identify various multiple …

In case of a major cyber incident, organizations usually rely on external providers of Cyber Incident Response (CIR) services. CIR consultants operate in a dynamic and constantly changing environment in which they must actively engage in information management and problem solving while adapting to …

Military involvement in foreign policy decision-making, and its role as a driving force in that process, has long been anathema to both academic and practitioner circles. Without wanting to pursue the quest for principles or ultimate predictions this study looks specifically into the role of the military …

In april verschijnt het boek Inescapable Entrapments? The Civil-Military Decision Paths to Uruzgan and Helmand over de besluitvorming rondom de Nederlandse deelname aan de ISAF-operatie in Uruzgan.[1] De auteur, luitenant-kolonel dr. Mirjam Grandia, vertelt in een interview met de Militaire Spectator …

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The Netherlands is generally regarded as a bürgerliche Gesellschaft disinclined to violent behaviour. A society that, moreover, had escaped the Urkatastrophe of 1914–1918, which had shocked and shaped Europe so profoundly. To explain the relatively peaceful nature of the Dutch society and its non-military …

During the last two decades the operational environment for Western armed forces has been dominated by the global war on terror and irregular warfare.1 Both modes of conflict are strongly associated with unorthodox units and tactics resulting in special operations forces occupying, or at least sharing, …

Dr. Marenne Mei Jansen onderzocht in haar proefschrift Educating for Military Realities de relatie tussen vorming en de militaire praktijk. Specifiek keek zij naar de opleiding van infanterieofficieren aan de Nederlandse Defensie Academie in Breda en stelde zich de vraag wat de ambitie van de NLDA …