The Royal Marechaussee (KMar) has undergone drastic changes during the past decades. It has developed into a modern police force with a military status executing a great variety of tasks in a flexible manner. In the year 2000 the KMar decided to establish its own initial educationfor its aspirant-officers …

This volume of NL-ARMS discusses a number of aspects related to officer education and training as they have developed over time at home and abroad. A closer inspection of both the field of tension between science and the military and role of values and norms inherent to the officer profession lies at …

This paper discusses two studies - the one in a business context, the other in a university context - carried out with expert educational designers. The studies aimed to determine the priorities experts claim to employ when designing competence-based learning environments. Designers in both contexts …

Within a short space of time, the Internet has had an enormous influence on our society and it has only taken e-mail five years to become an intensively used communications medium. The general trend for information and communications technology is that it is becoming smaller, faster, smarter, more accepted, …

In this paper the authors have adopted the Viable System Model (VSM), (a framework for diagnosing and (re)designing the distribution of complexity in order to ensure the viability of an organisation) to analyse the viability of an interorganisational civil military network in the context of a humanitarian …

This paper discusses an Induction Generator (IG) system that provides regulated voltage at any load condition. It utilizes the classical self-excitation principle but, in addition to that, it makes use of a current regulated PWM inverter to control the output voltage magnitude. It is primarily intended …

The quality and efficacy of political-military decision making and command depends to a large extent on the quality of the ongoing intelligence cycle. In other words, the more errors organizations and decision makers make during the ongoing cycles of information collection, analysis, information dissemination, …

This article focuses on Command and Control and the role of information from a military perspective. The author first address the meaning and content of command and control. Next he reflects upon developments over time in order to discover how change and continuity influenced both command and control …

Mycotoxins are small (MW approximately 700), toxic chemical products formed as secondary metabolites by a few fungal species that readily colonise crops and contaminate them with toxins in the field or after harvest. Ochratoxins and Aflatoxins are mycotoxins of major significance and hence there has …

The author explores the international legal rights for states to conduct Information Operations during peacetime and discusses the appropriateness of applying the law of armed conflict to Information Operations during armed conflicts