How to Create a Military Video Training Session Using a Video Editing Tool

Introduction Video training sessions have become an essential tool in military training programmes. They provide an immersive and interactive learning experience that can be easily replicated and distributed to trainees. In this step-by-step guide, we will walk you through the process of creating a military video training session using a free online video editor tool.… Read More

What is the Role of Conflict Resolution Research?

Introduction Conflict resolution is any reduction in the severity of a conflict. It may involve conflict management, in which the parties continue the conflict but adopt less extreme tactics; settlement, in which they reach agreement on enough issues that the conflict stops; or removal of the underlying causes of the conflict. The latter is sometimes… Read More

An Overview of the Centre for Global Nonkilling

Introduction The Centre for Global Nonkilling (originally known as the Centre for Global Nonviolence) is an international non-profit organisation focused on the promotion of change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world. The Centre for Global Nonkilling is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations (UN’s) Economic and Social… Read More

What is the MSC Student Conference on National Affairs?

Introduction The MSC Student Conference on National Affairs (MSC SCONA) is an annual conference at Texas A&M University where civilian students and military cadets from across Texas and the United States gather to exchange ideas and discuss the role of the United States in the global community. The most recent conference, MSC SCONA 67, was… Read More

An Overview of the League of Nations

Introduction The League of Nations (French: Société des Nations) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organisation ceased operations on 20 April 1946 but many of its components… Read More

An Overview of Foreign Internal Defence

Introduction Foreign internal defence (FID) is a term used by militaries in several countries, including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, to describe an integrated, and possibly multi-country, approach to combating actual or threatened insurgency in a foreign state. This foreign state is known as the Host Nation (HN) under US (and generally… Read More

What is an Anti-War Song?

Introduction Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others satirise war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole. Many of these songs are considered protest songs, and… Read More