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With over 13 years of war and military combat operations, the number of veterans, military families, and service members with mental health needs continues to increase across civilian and federal healthcare services. Knowledge about severe battle wounds, traumatic brain injury, and traumatic stress has influenced the delivery of healthcare. The invisible wounds of war associated with brain injury and traumatic stress will increase clinical care challenges into the foreseeable future. The purpose of this article is to describe two interrelated concepts, military cultural competence and stress injuries. The authors also differentiate stress reactions versus stress injury. Nurses with military cultural competence and knowledge about stress injuries will be better able to deliver patient-centered care to patients with military culture experiences.

Occupying a vital position in the wide spectrum of state policy making in the Philippines is the issue of the American military facilities. Negotiations between the representatives of the USA and the Philippines on the current and future conditions surrounding the existence of the military bases have been thorny. The author attempts to explain the policy-making process in the Philippines in terms of internal and external factors affecting the state in coming up with "rational decisions" on the issue area of the U.S. military bases. (DÜI-Sen)

This exploratory study investigates the impact of a military mission on Portuguese families, specifically on children. Although most research seeks the negative consequences of this lived experience, through the "Deployment Risk and Resilience Model" the present study intends to explore if this period can also be an opportunity for military's children to grow and become more resilient. Aiming to express freely their lived and felt stories about the phenomenon under study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 children of the service members of the Portuguese Army, aged between 8 and 21 years old. The results of the thematic analysis indicated that the most critical moments of the mission were the notification period, the last days before the departure of the service member, and the deployment. The preparation of activities for the service members absence in the pre-deployment and the increase of tasks to be carried out, during the deployment, were the most referenced changes. In the post-deployment, children perceived a rapid readjustment of the family system. Despite the military's children's difficulties in readjusting during the mission, they reported that the feelings of closeness to the nuclear family, increased responsibility, and personal growth were positive results experienced. It would be interesting to extend similar studies within family systems, as in other branches of the armed forces. As practical implications, the findings of our pioneering study may significantly contribute to the construction of programs and/or actions that promote a possible growth in the personal resilience of the children of Portuguese service members, and not only the recovery of the state prior to the mission. ; reviewed ; acceptedVersion

Paperet diskuterer de regionale og internationale implikationer i forbindelse med det Thailandske militærkup i september 2007. Fokus ligger på de økonomiske konsekvenser og de geo-politiske såvel som geo-økonomiske aspekter afledt af kuppet. ; The paper analyses the regional and international implications of the Thai military coup in September 2006. Focus is furthermore attached to the economic consequences and the geo-political and geo-economic aspects related to the coup.