by Andrew Marshall

Comparing Professional Military Education in the 1970s: The US, UK & Germany

An article by Lieutenant Colonel William Bruenner (writing in the Air University Review, March-April 1971) comparing the US, UK and German professional military education systems in the early 1970s. In view of the increased interest in professional military education in the United States Air Force, occasioned partly by the recent augmentation of attendance quotas, a… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

Making Good Instructors Great: USMC Cognitive Readiness & Instructor Professionalisation Initiatives

After a decade of waging unconventional conflicts, Defence stakeholders now generally accept that the US military has entered a new era of warfare, distinguished from previous generations by its prevalence of insurgent and terrorist tactics, frequency of non-kinetic tactical dilemmas, complexity of the sociocultural context, and emphasis on operational decentralization. To excel under such conditions, each war-fighter (down… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

Small Changes to Diet could bring Substantial Health & Environmental Benefits, Say Researchers

Making even relatively small changes to current UK diets could have a substantial effect on the environment and the population’s health, two research papers have claimed (Green et al., 2015; Milner et al., 2015). The United Kingdom has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from their 1990 levels by 2050, and some say… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

A Challenging Task: Training of Trainers in Problem-based Learning

Training of trainers in Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is one of the most challenging tasks facing by higher learning institutions in Malaysia. It was time consuming and demanded high level of commitment from university leaders and training trainers to prepare and equip the academics with proper skills in PBL. A number of institutions have taken their pro-active efforts… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

Diastasis Recti: An Overview

Do you know your rectus diastasis from your divarication of the recti? No! Regardless of your answer, come and look at my new article which looks at the condition known as diastasis recti. Diastasis recti is an anatomical term describing an acquired condition in which the right and left rectus muscles (think six-pack) have separated.… Read More