Introduction The Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) is an organisation created in early 2002 by the United States Department of Defence to conduct investigations of detainees captured in the War on Terrorism. It was envisioned that certain captured individuals would be tried by a military tribunal for war crimes and/or acts of terrorism. CITF was… Read More
Introduction The Foreign Operations Administration was created in 1953 under the directorship of Harold Stassen. Refer to Mutual Security Agency. Outline Its purpose “was intended to centralize all governmental operations, as distinguished from policy formulation, that had as their purpose the cooperative development of economic and military strength among the nations of the free world”.… Read More
Introduction The Command and Control Research Programme (CCRP) was an active DoD Research Programme from 1994 to 2015. It was housed within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defence (NII) and it focused upon: It provides “Out of the Box” thinking and explores ways to help DoD take full advantage of Information Age opportunities.… Read More
Introduction The International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS) is one of the world’s premier scientific conferences on topics related to Command and Control (C2), from both a theoretical and practical point of view. It is the only major conference with C2 as its exclusive focus. The symposium has had papers not only… Read More
Introduction The military-entertainment complex (MEC) is the cooperation between the United States Department of Defence and entertainment industries to their mutual benefit, especially in such fields as cinema, multimedia, virtual reality, and multisensory extended reality. Other nations besides the US have produced similar entertainment works, but the most prominent military-entertainment complex is that of the… Read More
Introduction The National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) is the name for each of a series of United States federal laws specifying the annual budget and expenditures of the US Department of Defence. The first NDAA was passed in 1961. The US Congress oversees the defence budget primarily through two yearly bills: the National Defence Authorisation… Read More
Introduction The National Defence University (NDU) is an institution of higher education funded by the United States Department of Defence, intended to facilitate high-level education, training, and professional development of national security leaders. As a chairman’s Controlled Activity, NDU operates under the guidance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), with Lieutenant… Read More
Boot Camp & Military Fitness Institute 