Introduction Global policeman (or world police) is an informal term for a superpower which seeks or claims the right to intervene in other sovereign states. It has been used, firstly for the United Kingdom and, since 1945, of the United States. Nevertheless, the two terms hegemon and global policeman are not identical in meaning. The… Read More
Introduction The Office of Defence Cooperation Turkey (ODC-T, Turkish: ABD Savunma İşbirliği Ofisi) to Turkey is a United States Security Assistance Organisation (SAO) to Turkey. It was established in 1947 as the Joint American Military Mission for Aid to Turkey (JAMMAT), and renamed the Joint United States Military Mission for Aid to Turkey (JUSMMAT) in… 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 military-digital complex (MDC) is the militarisation of cyber operations by governments and corporations, often through monetary relationships between computer programmers in private companies and the military to combat the threat of cyber terrorism and warfare. Cyber operations since 2000 have increased dramatically, with the recent branch of the US Strategic Command the United… Read More
Introduction The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 encompasses two laws that were together passed as part of the National Defence Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (NDA) (S. 1124; Pub. L. 104–106 (text) (PDF)): This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinger%E2%80%93Cohen_Act >; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or… 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 All branches of the United States Armed Forces use the general term Enlisted Professional Military Education (EPME) to describe the formal system of education which each branch provides to its enlisted personnel. Each branch has its own system and sequence of courses, with the overall focus on leadership and management. Education generally increases in… Read More
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