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In this study we examine the information use environment of the Naval Postgraduate School [NPS] as a unique academic institution educating approximately 1400 military officers from all branches of the services. This study explores the information environment of the NPS through an examination of the information needs and information seeking behaviors of its students, faculty and staff. Qualitative data from focus groups and interviews conducted in 1998 and 2000 is examined for the range of information needs expressed, barriers to information seeking, and the uniqueness of the NPS environment. The study is based upon the assumption that the identification of the information needs of individuals within an organization can facilitate the understanding of the information environment of the NPS organization. This understanding in turn can lead to improvements in the organization's ability to adopt rapidly changing information technologies and respond to rapid change in the external environment. It can also assist the organization in structuring the information environment to facilitate the successful information seeking activities of its members.

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a military university educating officers from the United States and 40 foreign countries. To investigate the NPS information environment a large study obtained data on the range of information needs and behaviors of NPS personnel. The specific aim of the study was to supply organizational units with qualitative data specific to their client base, enabling them to improve campus systems and information services. Facilitators from the NPS Organizational Support Division conducted eighteen (18) focus groups during Spring Quarter 1998. Transcribed focus group sessions were analyzed using NUDIST software to identify key issues and results emerging from the data set. Categories of participants' information needs were identified, including an analysis of key information issues across the NPS campus. Use of Internet resources, other trusted individuals, and electronic indexes and abstracts ranked high among information sources used by NPS personnel. A picture emerges of a campus information environment poorly understood by the academic community. The three groups (students, staff and faculty) articulated different concerns and look to different sources to satisfy their information needs. Participants' information seeking problems centered on: (1) housing, registration and scheduling, computing and the quality of information available on the campus computer network, (2) an inability to easily disseminate information quickly to an appropriate campus audience, and (3) training in new information access technologies, and (4) the general lack of awareness of library resources and services. The paper discusses a method for more effectively disseminating information throughout the campus. Implications for the development of information seeking models and a model of the NPS information environment are discussed.

IoT devices (sensors, drones, cameras) are gaining more and more emphasis on military operations. The application of IoT elements in the military environment increases situational awareness and supports the acquisition and maintenance of information superiority. The information they provide about the enemy, the area of operations, and the location and status of our soldiers and assets can contribute to the successful execution of operations at the tactical, operational and strategic levels. However, they can also pose serious threats if their vulnerabilities allow the data they collected to leak or they provide access to the info-communication networks used for the enemy. In this article, the author examined the vulnerabilities of these IoT devices using keyword analysis. After drawing conclusions from the analysis of the relevant literature, he compared the results with the general-purpose IoT threats and attacks typical of today, like distributed denial of service attacks, security, software, security and privacy issues.

Military environment is specific and it refers to rules and a special conduct. Young people hardly adapt to this environment because they are influenced by social factors prior to the military service. These factors arefamily, school, church and many others, and general crime prevention activity in the armed forces is a specific one.Keywords: army; delinquency; military environment; family; society;rules; military regulations.

Ever since President Eisenhower broached the "open skies" proposal in 1955, American "disarmament" policy has given prior emphasis—apart from diplomatic and propagandistic purposes—to the objective of stabilizing the military balance of power, as distinguished from the traditional objective of abolishing or reducing the arms that sustain that balance. So Secretary of State Herter on February 18, 1960, described the first goal of America's disarmament policy as creating "a more stable military environment" by reducing the risk of war resulting from a surprise attack launched by miscalculation or from the promiscuous spread of nuclear weapons production. And so on May 25 President Eisenhower took the occasion of the U-2 incident to reiterate the urgent need for an international agreement providing mutual assurance against surprise attack; and on September 22, in an address to the U.N. General Assembly, proposed a United Nations surveillance body to permit nations to prove to each other that they are not preparing to launch a surprise attack.If stability is the objective, then arms control policy is clearly the logical complement rather than the antithesis of defense policy. Yet in the absence of an overall strategy of stability, linking arms control with military strategy, the two may work against each other. Thus in the context of recent developments in missile technology, stabilizing the military environment requires the American government to make a basic decision, not only about arms control, but about the whole strategy of deterrence, lest its concern for providing mutual assurance against surprise attack conflict with its reliance upon a nuclear response to discourage a wide range of aggressions.

Military courtesy consists of a set of rules meant to facilitate and harmonize the relationships between individuals belonging to military communities. It also represents the ties which unite them, namely the courtesyand mutual respect. The rules of military courtesy are simple. Each military needs to know and apply them. They are constantly compelled to behave as living examples of modesty, temperance, and high education, they are meant to defend their dignity and to respect the dignity of others. Judging the behavior of the military means not only an evaluation of their conduct, but also of the honor of the Armed Forces as a whole.An article about the basic rules of military courtesy is always welcomed, as it may be addressed to young officers, non-commissioned officers or other categories of military personnel who make the first step on the way of their careers. Never could we say enough about the importance of the first impression on the way we are perceived as persons and professionals.Keywords: military courtesy; rules; greetings; behavior; dress code.

The US military has a long and highly distinguished record of developing effective vaccines against pathogens that threaten the armed forces. Many of these vaccines have also been of significant benefit to civilian populations around the world. The current requirements for force protection include vaccines against endemic disease threats as well as against biological warfare or bioterrorism agents, to include novel or genetically engineered threats. The cost of vaccine development and the modern regulatory requirements for licensing vaccines have strained the ability of the program to maintain this broad mission. Without innovative vaccine technologies, streamlined regulatory strategies, and coordinating efforts for use in civilian populations where appropriate, the military vaccine development program is in jeopardy.