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Extrait : 'Molière les appelait des femmes savantes ; nous les avons nommées Bas-Bleus. Pourquoi ? Je n'en sais rien et je ne m'en occupe guère. Mais j'aime ce nom, qui ne signifie absolument rien, par cela seul qu'il dénonce cette espèce féminine par un mot du genre masculin.'

This infographic provides key highlights of Black and African American service members and veterans. The information and statistics in this document are from our various data collection efforts centered on military life, transition, employment, entrepreneurship, and higher education.

AbstractAs a result of downsizing, many Department of Defense (DOD) bases in California are being closed. The economic dislocations caused by base closure are a major policy concern, and the successful economic conversion of these bases has become a top priority within state government.1 Still, conversion cannot proceed unless and until the hazardous wastes present at these installations are remediated. The expeditious cleanup and productive reuse of these installations implicate a broad range of federal, state, and local interests. Given the magnitude of the undertaking, the efficient cleanup and closure of these federal facilities will require close cooperation between DOD and relevant state agencies. This article discusses recent planning activities by the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) in the areas of base cleanup and closure. This article explains why CDFG is involved, discusses the development of a CDFG Base Cleanup Team, and describes the anticipated benefits that will result from CDFG participation.

"In A Political Economy of American Hegemony, Thomas Oatley explores how America's military buildups have produced postwar economic booms that have culminated in monetary and financial crises. The 2008 subprime crisis - as well as the housing bubble that produced it - was the most recent manifestation of this buildup, boom, and bust cycle, developing as a consequence of the decision to deficit-finance the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Earlier instances of financial crises were generated by deficit-financed buildups in the 1980s and the late 1960s. The buildup, boom, and bust pattern results from the way political institutions and financial power shape America's response to military challenges: political institutions transform increased military spending into budget deficits, and financial power enables the United States to finance these deficits by borrowing cheaply from the rest of the world. Oatley examines how this cycle has had a powerful impact on American and global economic and financial performance"..

This article has both a general theoretical, conceptual, and branch character. It is a complex interdisciplinary study aimed at conceptual approaches establishment to the understanding of national security and the mechanisms for its provision in foreign countries such as the United States and Great Britain. Within the framework of the prepared article, its authors carried out a comparative analysis of strategic legal regulation experience concerning the national security issues of these foreign countries, the use of which is necessary in view of the new global challenges within a national legal system. The specifics of the Anglo-American approach to public administration in the sphere of national security provision are established and systematized.

Merger talks between Europe's two largest arms manufacturers, BAE Systems and EADS, were revealed in September 2012. In the end, no agreement could be reached, but the talks brought uncomfortable facts about Europe's defence industrial base into the open. It seems unwise to rule out the possibility of such a deal at some point in the future. However, even if no BAE-EADS merger ever eventuates, change seems likely to be on the way. Adapted from the source document.

The 1951 U.S. -Icelandic Defense Agreement paved the way for a permanent U.S. military presence at the Keflavik base in Iceland, an outpost that played a crucial role in U.S. strategy during the Cold War. The article explores two gender-related aspects of the U.S. -Icelandic Cold War relationship:the restrictions on off-base movements of U.S. soldiers, and the secret ban imposed by the Icelandic government on the stationing of black U.S. troops in Iceland. These practices were meant to "protect" Icelandic women and to preserve a homogeneous "national body." Although U.S. officials repeatedly tried to have the restrictions lifted, the Icelandic government refused to modify them until the racial ban was publicly disclosed in late 1959. Even after the practice came to light, it took another several years before the ban was gradually eliminated. Misguided though the Icelandic restrictions may have been, they did, paradoxically, help to defuse domestic opposition to Iceland's pro-American foreign policy course and thus preserved the country's role in the Western alliance.