THE NEW WARTHE SUICIDAL COLLISIONS OF HIJACKED COMMERCIAL AIRLINERS INTO the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, entailed the most destructive terrorist attack in world history. Before the deaths of over 3,000 people in those attacks, the historically greatest single terrorist attack claimed the lives of about 380 people. The 2001 disaster took place at a time when experts had been defining a new form of terrorism focused on millennial visions of apocalypse and mass casualties. The catastrophic attacks seemed to confirm the previously unheeded fears of terrorism experts-that a qualitatively different form of terrorism was emerging.The State Department's Patterns of Global Terrorism report revealed that the number of terrorist attacks has scaled back, even while the numbers of casualties have increased. 1 The late 1980s were a high point for terrorist attacks, with the number of attacks exceeding 600 in the years [1985][1986][1987][1988]. With the exception of 1991, the number of terrorist attacks since 1988 has decreased to below 450 every year, reaching their nadir in the years 1996-1998, when the number of attacks decreased to about 300. The number of attacks has increased slightly since 1998, when there were 274, but the numbers have not reached those realized in any of the years of the 1980s. This report is not a linear progression from large numbers to small numbers of attacks, but the trend revealed is one of a decreasing number of attacks.Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda network of international terrorists are the prime examples of the new terrorism, but Islamic radicalism is not the only form of apocalyptic, catastrophic terrorism. Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese religious cult, executed its first major terrorist attack using chemical weapons on a Tokyo subway in 1995. The bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma revealed similar extremism by American right-wing militants. Other plots by Christian identity terrorists have shown similar mass casualty proclivities.

This study responds to a deficiency of research on military leadership gender differences in spite of widespread interest in women in the military in policymaking and academic circles of various fields. Although scholarship in the field of women's leadership in recent years has asserted that there are stylistic differences between male and female leaders, there were few major differences in this study of 12 specific areas of leadership rated by 3 types of raters. Of the 36 possible occurrences of a statistically significant gender difference, only 6 manifested themselves in the cadet leader ratings. As a whole, evidence supports minimal gender differences in leadership performance or style in the West Point Class of 1998.

Changing prevailing attitudes in society are leading to new formulations about the relationship between the individual and the state in industrialized countries. The emerging belief systems and social trends underpinning them are collectively described using the term "postmodern." This article explores the dynamics of the postmodern society and their likely impact on military service. After introducing the general characteristics of postmodernity, it will be necessary to develop a framework for assessing its effects on society and culture. Finally, the implications of these developments are assessed as they apply to military service in the twenty-first century.

The study aim was to help the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland evaluate, quantify, and potentially modify the Girl Scouts Fierce & Fit program. Methods: From 2018 to 2019, our Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research team developed a computational simulation model representing the 250 adolescent girls participating in the Fierce & Fit program and how their diets and physical activity affected their BMI and subsequent outcomes, including costs. Results: Changing the Fierce & Fit program from a 6-week program meeting twice a week, with 5 minutes of physical activity each session, to a 12-week program meeting twice a week with 30 minutes of physical activity