...below the fiftieth percentile among a group of fourteen newly industrial countries. * Indonesia’s reliance on informal social networks, instead of on predictable rules and procedures has resulted in private investment tends lagging behind those of East Asian neighbors. * Informal social networks emerged because of leadership’s need to nurture political support from the military, which was the only institution capable of governing the country. * The Armed Forces and the Rise of the New Order - Old government could not collect taxes, so it could not pay its officials and provide an adequate legal system, laws were out of date and the judicial system was dysfunctional. * With backing of military, President Sukarno declared martial law and restored the 1945 Constitution. Threatened that the military might threaten his position, he supported the rise of the PKI, Indonesia’s Communist Party, as counterweight to the military. This led to a power struggle between the army and, other elements of the armed forces, and the PKI, which eventually spun out of control. General Soeharto became head of state and the government became the glue that held together ethnically diverse groups. * The Technocrats and Regime Credibility – Under Soeharto, inflation was at an all-time high of 1,000 percent, and foreign exchange reserves were at an all time low; foreign debt service had become unmanageable, the agriculture/rural sector was failing, food shortages threatened; infrastructure...
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...Matt DeGroot 3/20/15 Mr. Kalner APUSH Essay Assignment: At the turn of the 19th century, American foreign policy shifted from George Washington’s isolationist ideology to more of a policy focused on imperialism. Within this ideology were many discrepancies that displayed increasing power and influence in the world. In order to garner the support of the general public, the federal government was forced to increase its power by political and economic means, which restricted the civil liberties of the general public. In order to get ready for the upcoming war, the government had to mobilize by political means. One way of doing this was by ways of the creel organization. This group, which employed over 150,000 employees, used words to sway the public opinion on the war. The company sent out over 75,000 individuals to give 4 minute speeches on the necessity of participating in the upcoming war. These “4 minute men” helped sway the general public into acceptance for the war. The numerous billboards, pamphlets, and propaganda against the “huns” and the appeal of the “boys” in uniform led to public approval of the war. Next, the federal government expanded enormously in size,...
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...Military expenditures in the US and compared to Russia Name: Institution: Tutor: Course: Code: Date: Write a paper about 7-10 pages, single space about military expenditures in the US and compared to Russia (or any other country), Then we can ask how much military expenditure is optimum. It means beyond a point more military expenditures brings us no more security but less security in terms of not spending for education, health and infrastructure. Introduction. There has been a controversial and growing concerns in the recent years about the harmful effects of military expenditures in the developed countries. According to the studies conducted they reveal that these expenditures disrupts and worsen the balance of payments deficits, hinder economic growth and social sector. These effects of the military expenditures seem to have the adverse effect to the overwhelming majority of the poor and in general the whole nation (Aizenman, Glick, & National Bureau of Economic Research. (2003)). This paper set to compare the military expenditure of the US and that of Russia. These two countries are among the world super nations and therefore it will be crucial to study trends in military expenditures over time. The paper will also highlight the effects of military expenditure on economic growth. The chief purpose to study military expenditure data, is to clearly to have an appropriate way to identify and measure the resources absorbed by the military over time in various countries...
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...Running head: THE NAVY 1 The Navy M Stevens University of Phoenix MGT 330 Daniel Capps, Jr. October 13, 2011 The Navy 2 The Navy The Navy’s mission statement is to maintain and train the Naval forces for combat-ready capabilities in completing missions. Collaboration with other uniformed services is one of the main key factors to succeed in every mission. According to Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, “Our mission is to provide a lawful maritime order and deny the use of the sea to terrorist and violent extremist. We do this through our presence…” As an enlisted service member in the Navy the organizational structure practices, uses the physical assets, monetary, human resources, knowledge, technology, and to achieve missions. These missions are set for each fiscal year to cover the monetary assets, and technology required. People interested in joining the Navy reserves and the regular active duty seek out for a Navy recruiter for information. The recruiters will screen the participants based on the person’s interest, background check, age, high school diploma or GED, and citizenship; these are some of the basic requirements that need to be met before enlisting in the Navy and other branches. Another important qualification is the person must be in physical shape before he or she signs a contract, and sent to basic training for three months. The Navy is committed...
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...Eliot Cohen the author of a valuable study of supreme command raised the question: “where did the American way of war derive from?” Most have argued for a larger Western heritage dating to classical times of combining decisive battle, superior technology that is the dividend of rationalism, group discipline, and notions of freedom, audit, and constitutional government.(1) Of course, there was a particularly American variant of Western military practice that grew up on a vast frontier and was the result of the impatient nature of American popular culture and its familiarity with machines manifested best in something like George’s Patton’s romp across central France in the summer of 1944, or the dash up from Kuwait to Northern Iraq in the spring of 2003. Cohen, however, believes the U.S. way of fighting is more complex, incorporating all sorts of non-conventional elements. To make that point, he reviews warfare of the eighteenth-century along the northeastern seaboard of the American continent that rugged two-hundred-mile corridor of mountains, forests, and lakes from Albany to Montreal dubbed the “Great Warpath.”(1) His investigations reveal two less appreciated sources for the way Americans currently fight. One was the birth of a unique, and less remarked upon strain of raiding, ambushing, subversion, living off the land, ad hoc alliance building with indigenous peoples, long-range reconnaissance, and patrolling behind enemy lines.(1) The other was a sort of military populism:...
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...Organizational Structure and Culture Paper 14 April 2011 Organizational Structure and Culture Paper An organization is a collection of people working together under a defined structure to achieve predetermined outcomes using financial, human, and material resources. This paper will focus on the organizational structure of Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton (NHCP), how the NHCP structure supports client-centered care, uses information systems, the methods of communications, the decision making-ability, informal and formal reporting lines while looking at issues of power and control, in addition to who the actual leaders are in the organization, how social and cultural influences of the community are integrated into the delivery of care as well as the generational deference influences. All as they relate to the organizational structure of Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. The type of organizational structure used at Naval hospital Camp Pendleton, is a tall service line structure with the hospital captain at the top answering to regional leadership and directly to Washington D.C. Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton also uses classical theory; the military and federal government work very well on the premise of efficiency through design, a rational and well-defined task or organizational design. Nursing does not have an independent chain of command but falls under the charge nurse in each departments answering to the department head who answers to the executive officer who answers...
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...Women in the Military Life is not easy, nor has it ever been for a woman. No one has a harder and more stressful life than a woman. A woman’s life is more difficult than a man’s because she must endure child birth, maintain personnel appearance, and overcome discrimination; Women in the United States have fought for the right to be included in many facets of society. From the beginning of time, women only had certain roles to play. A woman’s job was limited to homemaker, wife and mother. Women have played a tremendous role in the armed forces from the past to the present. In World War II thousands of women served in the military in traditional roles as a nurse or held an office job. Women should be allowed to fight for their country. The United States Army is the only branch that has recognized women in combat zones. They have yet to serve on the front line, but they are able to participate in convey. When it comes to combat assignments and the needs of the military, men take precedence. What is the point of taking women to the combat zone, if we are not able to go to war? When the military trains for combat, there is no gender bias training. The United States spends a lot of money on combat training for women and men. It is a waste of time and money not to send a woman to war. War is color blind. Behind every uniform is a Sailor, Solider, or Marine. When a woman walks into her command, she is greeted by her rank not her gender. Why shouldn’t a women serve for her country...
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...United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to Regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God (DD form 1966/4) Therefore, we will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and are held to higher standards of the Regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The UCMJ established by Congress on 5 May 1950, and effective on 31 May 1951. The word Uniform in the title refers to the congressional intent to make military justice uniform or consistent among the armed services. Before 1950, offenses in each branch of the service were handled differently and punishments were given by the service as they saw fit (UCMJ 1951). For example if a member of the Navy is put in an Unauthorized Absences (UA) status, it was handled differently if the member was in the Army. The UCMJ makes the offence of being UA, consistently handled throughout all branches of the United States Armed services, to give a lenient or harsher punishment for the same violation. The adaption of this code has become more useful to date being the military services have become integrated and work closely with each other. In my time in the Navy, I‘ve seen...
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... 11/26/2011 “Should high school graduates receive free education for mandatory military service?” My topic is should high school graduates received free education based on two or four of military service? Some people believe all high school graduates should be required to serve a minimum of two years in any branch of the military. All veterans should receive some sort of educational assistance. Their educational benefits should be based on years of service, job duties and if they were in a combat zone or participated in an area were combat was imminent but war wasn’t declared. Some people believe in freedom of choice and individuals shouldn’t be forced to join the armed services if they don’t wish to. Some veterans don’t feel free education shouldn’t be contingent on mandatory service; others see no problem with it especially in today current climate. I believe all high school graduates should serve between two to four years in the military either before or after college. Their educational benefits whether it is paid for 100% or a percentage of it covered, all veterans should receive some type of assistance. I stated that today’s young people aren’t very responsible and don’t have a strong work ethic. Their value system is based on “what have you done for me lately”...
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...week nine of Sociology three hundred. This week we are going to discuss Soldiers and Politics. In much of the Third World there has been military involvement in politics at the national level. Many prominent positions in government have been and continue to be held by military leaders. Throughout this course, we have noted that the developing world is diverse. Thus, the level of military involvement in the political arena of each nation is different. In many countries there is no clear dividing line between the armed forces and political activity. With the rise of democracy in many Third World countries in recent years, there has been a steady decline in military leadership at the government level. However, this is not to say that military leaders have completely stepped down from politics. In fact, countries such as Libya and Pakistan still have military rulers in the highest positions of government. In other countries the armed forces continue to exert considerable influence over civilian political leaders. Prior to the nineteen eighties military involvement in politics of the developing world was pervasive. It was considered by some to be a defining feature of political underdevelopment. And certainly it was a feature of extreme instability within nations. A study of fifty nine developing nations shows that between nineteen forty six and nineteen seventy, there were two hundred and seventy four attempted military coups. Some countries experienced four...
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...the scope and nature of this problem while specifying how it has affected the military as a whole. Additionally, I will identify how this problem can be either mitigated or solved utilizing a variety of social controls. Throughout this paper, I will support the fact that sexual harassment is an ongoing problem in the military and recommend changes that could provide potential social or economical benefits if implemented. The scope and nature of sexual harassment in the United States military is one of great magnitude because of the profound effect it has on the individual service member and the organization as a whole. “In a 1995 U.S. Department of Defense survey of active-duty men and women in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, 70.9 percent of female personnel and 35.8 percent of male personnel said that they had experienced sexually harassing behaviors in the previous 12 months” (Antecol & Cobb-Clark, 2001). While these statistics are almost 20 years old there is still relevance. A survey in today’s military might show results that reflect a decline in the percentages or occurrences; however, in an organization that is targeting zero tolerance one claim is one too many. In my personal experience, sexual harassment has severely affected the military work environment in a number of ways, situations, and circumstances. According to Giraffe (2011), sexual harassment is a persistent issue that many face in the workplace from a social standpoint...
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...|florida agriculture & mechaniCal university | |“DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL AND ITS CONSTITUTIONALITY” | |FINAL DRAFT | | | | | |ASHLEY L. THOMAS | |WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 , 2011 | [pic] |ATTORNEY JOHN WASHINGTON | |BUL 5323 – BUSINESS LAW | Introduction Ever since its declaration in 1993 under President Bill Clinton’s administration, don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT) has been a major dispute amongst the United...
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...* BCOM275 Wk 3 Homework * * * My ideal work culture is amongst the men and women of the armed forces. The environment of military members around is a comfort zone that appeals to me. With that being said, it’s a discipline and a level of respect that I used to. As for the survey with University of Phoenix, it has provided me with a work culture of supportive, expert, and well resourced. In my view all these category headings can fit within my ideal work setting. * Knowing my work culture and which appropriate channel to use for communication is quite important. In the military, depending on your career of choice a lot of emailing is put into place. I find it as common practice as for these days and times that emailing serves as receipt of what has been communicated. Date, time, and if the message was received or not is etched into the memory of a computer data base. This serves as a fallback or point of reference. As verbal communication face to face is the preferred method, a lot can be lost in the translation. Not to say that emailing cannot have flaws such as ineffective explanations through writing, but one could follow it as a form of instructions. * Body language intertwined with verbal communication is how I normally express * my thought, but amongst military ranks it frowned upon. Talking without using my hands is very difficult for me, but I tend to manage. * Improvements within my communication have to more or less be done in...
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...years they served our country, TRICARE, and allowing them a place to live on military bases housing. That’s great and all but mentally they are in need of benefits as well. Consider this; a military retiree has been subjected to an unusually healthy "climate" for at least twenty years. This means that they have consistently been among coworkers with familiar economic positions, similar levels of physical fitness and a medically proven drug free work environment. A retiree has had continuously received a monthly salary without time cards or trips to a personnel office, closely monitored bi-annual medical and dental exams that are free of charge. This all amounts to the fact that a person that has served twenty or more years in the US Armed Forces is as institutionalized as a person that has spent twenty or more years in a correctional institution. Upon release these individuals are bound to have issues coping with the civilian society. They are typically qualified for management positions, yet to subordinate civilians they have no people skills because they simply don’t understand the concept of "late", "break", or "calling-in". I understand this testament perfectly coming from a military home, my father would seem to be very harsh and strict on me when I was younger over ordeals that I saw to be trivial because I didn’t understand the...
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...Hi my name is Amber Cline, I am 31 years old and was born on July, 8 1981 in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. I have two older brothers and pretty much grew up living the military life. Our dad was in the U.S. armed forces and got to see some pretty amazing things from moving around a lot. My mom was and still is a homemaker. I am now living in Mississippi where I attended high school and graduated in 2000. I took a two year vocational course in child development through my last two years of high school. I also studied animal nursing for one year. After everything I have seen and done I love to meet new people, working with kid’s, traveling and I am a dog lover. I am a very outspoken, fun, outgoing and sweet person. I suffer from an illness and have been struggling to get where I want to go, but I always learned to never let anything or anyone interfere in the most of my abilities to do and be what I want. My main goal as of now is to have a great career and finish what I start no matter how long it takes. I come a very long way into taking my hobbies, interests and turning it into something great so I have chosen this career style with helping, communicating and organizing my way to make it in the top of my list. Sometimes the future holds very different pattern’s a person takes but as long as you succeed in doing those important things it doesn’t really matter how you do it but it’s you did it and feel accomplished to your liking. This is basically how I am doing...
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