Family Communication Patterns and Adolescent Experiences During Parental Military Deployment and Reintegration: The Role of Inappropriate Parental Disclosures and Perceived Family Understanding

This study examines associations between adolescent reports of family communication patterns (FCPs) and difficulties experienced during the deployment and reintegration of a military parent. Data from 106 adolescents (9–17 years) in 72 National Guard families where a parent had recently returned from overseas deployment were analyzed to examine direct and indirect links between FCPs, perceived family understanding, inappropriate parental disclosures, and adolescent difficulties. Results indicate direct effects for conformity orientation, with it being inversely associated with adolescent difficulties during both deployment and reintegration. Conversation orientation exerts mixed effects on adolescent difficulties during deployment. At a trend level, conversation orientation shares a direct, negative association with adolescent difficulties during deployment but also an indirect, positive association via family inappropriate parental disclosures. Implications of the findings for future research on FCPs as well as programs working with military families are discussed.     

Military Wives' Stressful Disclosures to Their Deployed Husbands: The Role of Protective Buffering

This study combines the fever model with communication privacy management to examine the conditions under which military wives are likely to disclose their family stressors or engage in protective buffering with their deployed husbands. Military wives (N =105) whose husbands were deployed and who had at least one child completed a web-based survey about the communication of family stressors during deployment. Protective buffering was associated with negative health symptoms, and disclosure was related to marital satisfaction. Wives' perceptions that their husbands were in dangerous situations as well as their perceptions that husbands were supportive of their disclosures were both related to protective buffering and disclosure.     

Relational turbulence and perceptions of partner support during reintegration after military deployment

The transition from deployment to reintegration can be stressful for returning military personnel and at-home partners, and support plays a key role in their ability to transition effectively. We draw on relational turbulence theory to advance predictions about how parameters of the relationship between returning service members and at-home partners predict their perceptions of their partner’s support during the post-deployment transition. We surveyed 235 individuals (117 returning service members, 118 at-home partners) who had experienced the transition within the past 6 months. Findings consistent with the theory indicated that relational turbulence partially mediated the negative associations that relational uncertainty and interference from a partner shared with partner support. Partner uncertainty was a direct negative predictor of partner support as well. We consider how these results extend theory, research, and practice.     

Evaluations of Supportive and Unsupportive Responses during Spousal Deployment

This study investigates helpful/unhelpful support, and reasons why responses from others are evaluated as helpful/unhelpful in terms of how they affect the ability to cope with deployment. Interviews were conducted with 26 military partners during deployment. The results offer a typology of (un)helpful responses and attributions of these responses. Furthermore, the results indicate that similar responses can be evaluated as both helpful and unhelpful, creating a support paradox. Three prominent dimensions affecting the variability in response evaluations, based in validation, understanding, and control, are discussed: in-group versus out-group, identity-confirming versus identity-disconfirming, and burden-reducing versus burden-inducing. These dimensions deepen our understanding of how support is unique within the context of deployment, specifically in terms of the paradox it can create.     

刍议开源军事情报工作的标准构建

[目的/意义]在“全源情报分析”时代,开源情报已成为军事安全领域关注和应用的重点,研究开源军事情报工作标准构建的思路和内容,为我军情报标准构建提供参考。[方法/过程]基于现有文献和实践经验,论文界定了开源军事情报的概念,构建了开源军事情报工作标准“三层七要素”的框架。[结果/结论]开源军事情报工作标准建设应重点关注:术语和定义、开源军事情报系统、情报工作人员、情报目标和情报需求、任务策划和部署、搜集存储、处理分析、分发利用、情报成果等九个方面核心内容。     

Reporting from the Frontline

This paper focuses on the war correspondents traveling in the Balkans during the period of the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) to cover military campaigns. It tries to explore the paths of information, the mechanisms of propaganda and the restrictions used by the Balkan states to control the content of the news transmitted. The Balkan Wars were among the first military events covered so extensively by newspapers all around the world. In the battle-fields the principles of the new field of journalism were highly tested. The lessons learnt in the Balkans during the Balkan Wars proved to be productive and useful for the improvement of the relationship between war correspondents and military authorities.     

Delivery to the Sharp End of the Spear: Responding to the Need for Library Support to the Deployed and Downrange Military Community

ABSTRACT

Libraries that support military patrons often face unique challenges. One of the most traumatic is the temporary transfer, or sudden deployment of members of the university community, often in the middle of an academic term, sometimes without notice or adequate preparation time. Not too long ago such an event would almost certainly have interrupted if not altogether halted students’ academic progress until they could return to the parent institution. Technology now in place has allowed many of these students to continue their education regardless of their physical locations, and libraries will have to improvise with regard to the delivery of resources and materials to the “sharp end of the spear.”     

军事科技期刊编辑工作中应注意的事项

为提高军事科技期刊编辑胜任本职工作的能力,结合军事科技期刊的特点,分析其在稿件政治审查和保密把关中可能遇到的问题,提出了应对措施,并就如何培育作者、丰富稿源、扩大刊物影响提出了建议。     

Pictures From the Sky: Propaganda Leaflet Psyop During the Korean War

This research examines illustrated propaganda leaflets designed by the military to influence the Communist enemy during the Korean War (1950–1953). The United States built a propaganda operation in an effort to counteract Communist ideology. This required military propagandists to design a leaflet campaign to reach the enemy by means of pictures and text. But skeptics demanded evidence that leaflet-based propaganda was effective; psyop staff responded by gathering documentation. Leaflet campaigns seemed to have had limited effect, however. Authors conclude that psyop staff found it challenging to design leaflets faced with an unclear mission, designers trained in irrelevant techniques of American advertising, anti-Asian bias, and weaknesses in measurements.     

Embeds' Perceptions of Censorship: Can You Criticize a Soldier Then Have Breakfast With Him in the Morning?

This study examines a survey of embedded journalists worldwide to explore their opinions about press freedom and the degree to which they believe their reports were censored during the Iraq War. Our findings suggest most journalists took a social responsibility approach to freedom of the press during the war in Iraq, saying the needs of the media and the military need to be balanced. Overall, embeds reported that they experienced little censorship in Iraq and explained that they did not self-censor their stories.     

《唐方镇文职僚佐考》新补

文职僚佐是唐代藩镇的重要组成人员,任职藩镇文职僚佐是当时知识分子走上仕途的重要途径。由于这方面的史料比较零散,且不少材料所记又比较泛浮,不易考订,加大了研究唐代藩镇幕僚的难度。文章以新出土的墓志为依据,对新发现的唐代藩镇文职僚佐资料进行归纳和考列,以补史料之不足,可供人们进一步研究,以期对此方面的研究有所贡献。     

军校图书馆文职人员综合服务能力探讨

军队院校图书馆编制中聘用文职人员代替原军校图书馆文职专业技术干部,使军校图书馆人员状况发生新的变化。分析军校图书馆文职人员现状,肯定文职人员在图书馆工作中的优势,指出他们的弱势,并对如何发挥他们的优势,提升军校图书馆文职人员的综合服务能力及军政素质进行探讨。      

军队档案资源内涵及其构成

军队档案资源是党、国家和军队的重要信息资源和谋略资源,是军队档案事业可持续发展的物质基础.本文在阐释军队档案资源概念的基础上,从军队档案资源存藏的维度,提出军队档案资源构成主要包括军队各级各类档案管理机构保存的档案资源、社会机构收藏的档案资源、社会个人收藏的档案资源、口述档案资源、实物档案资源等,并分别进行了深化研究.     

非战争军事行动卫勤医学信息资源导航系统的构建

针对近些年我军非战争军事行动卫勤任务增加的现状,分析了非战争军事行动医学信息资源存在的问题,如资源分散、信息针对性不强等,提出了对相关资源进行整合的建议和具体方法,以提高非战争军事行动卫勤保障的能力。     

关于军校学报发展现状和对策的思考

面对新的形势,为了发挥优势、弥补不足,军校学报要以服务作战为导向,以学科建设为依托,以融入军事学术创造体系为主线,提升学术品位和影响力.     

Not everything is as it seems: Digital technology affordance,pandemic control,and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements

An overly favorable narrative has developed around the role played by digital technologies in containing Covid-19, which oversimplifies the complexity of technology adoption. This narrative takes sociomaterial arrangements for granted and conceptualizes technology affordance - the problem-solving capability of a technology - as a standard built-in feature that automatically activates during technology deployment, leading to undiversified and predetermined collective benefits. This paper demonstrates that not everything is as it seems; implementing a technology is a necessary but insufficient condition for triggering its potential problem-solving capability. The potential affordance and effects of a technology are mediated by the sociomaterial arrangements that users assemble to connect their goals to the materiality of technological artifacts and socio-organizational context in which technology deployment takes place. To substantiate this argument and illustrate the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements, we build on sociomateriality and technology affordance theory, and we present the results of a systematic review of Covid-19 literature in which 2187 documents are examined. The review combines text data mining, co-occurrence pattern recognition, and inductive coding, and it focuses on four digital technologies that public authorities have deployed as virus containment measures: infrared temperature-sensing devices; ICT-based surveillance and contact-tracing systems; bioinformatic tools and applications for laboratory testing; and electronic mass communications media. Reporting on our findings, we add nuances to the academic debate on sociomateriality, technology affordance, and the governance of technology in public health crises. In addition, we provide public authorities with practical recommendations on how to strengthen their approach to digital technology deployment for pandemic control.     

Introduction

Between 1940–1947, the FCC's Radio Intelligence Division (RID) monitored clandestine radio transmissions in the United States. The RID was the FCC's “largest single activity” during the war years and helped military and government agencies locate the Axis enemy. Its creation set the precedent for FCC participation in national defense. Although its national defense activities supported President Roosevelt's New Deal goals, the RID eventually became the target of considerable conservative criticism. This essay broadens the understanding of the FCC beyond its broadcasting authority and further provides insight to the national defense contributions of a civilian agency.     

新形势下军事科技学术期刊编辑基本素养探析

新军事变革引发军事理论和军事技术的创新发展,对军事学术期刊编辑的基本素养提出了更高的要求。军事学术期刊编辑应具备坚定正确的政治方向、牢固的保密意识、充实的业务能力和不断完善的知识结构等基本素养,进而为传播和推广军事科研成果服务。