Providing for the Casualties of War: The American Experience Through World War II

Rostker, Bernard D.

doi:10.7249/mg1164

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“…The ZI supported specialized long-term care in the military, the VA, and civilian hospitals that could provide reconstructive, restorative, and rehabilitative surgeries as well as other care (neuropsychiatric services, physical therapy, etc.). 6 At its peak, the ZI had approximately 65 general hospitals, 13 convalescent hospitals, 9 hospital centers/ surgical hospitals, 2 regional hospitals, and 54 station hospitals to handle the influx of patients from overseas. 7 While the majority of these hospitals consisted of established military commands and units, many were transformed from preexisting hotel infrastructure such as the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, and the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia 8 with others affiliated with civilian medical universities.…”

Section: Historical Perspective: a "Zone Of The Interior"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historical Perspective: a “Zone Of The Interior”mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Refocusing the Military Health System to support Role 4 definitive care in future large-scale combat operations

Remondelli,

McDonough,

Remick

et al. 2024

J Trauma Acute Care Surg

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The last twenty years of sustained combat operations during the Global War on Terror generated significant advancements in combat casualty care. Improvements in point-of-injury, en route, and forward surgical care appropriately aligned with the survival, evacuation, and return to duty needs of the small-scale unconventional conflict. However, casualty numbers in large-scale combat operations have brought into focus the critical need for modernized casualty receiving and convalescence: Role 4 definitive care (R4DC). Historically, World War II was the most recent conflict in which the United States fought in multiple operational theaters, with hundreds of thousands of combat casualties returned to the continental United States. These numbers necessitated the establishment of a “Zone of the Interior” which integrated military and civilian healthcare networks for definitive treatment and rehabilitation of casualties. Current security threats demand refocusing and bolstering the Military Health System’s definitive care capabilities to maximize its force regeneration capacity in a similar fashion. Medical force generation, medical force sustainment and readiness, and integrated casualty care capabilities are three pillars that must be developed for MHS readiness of Role 4 definitive care in future large-scale contingencies against near-peer/peer adversaries.

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Section: Historical Perspective: a "Zone Of The Interior"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historical Perspective: a “Zone Of The Interior”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Refocusing the Military Health System to support Role 4 definitive care in future large-scale combat operations

Remondelli,

McDonough,

Remick

et al. 2024

J Trauma Acute Care Surg

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“…The Charter reads: "Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for all Members of the United Nations when they have been adopted by a vote of two thirds of the members of the General Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations, including all the permanent members of the Security Council." 10 This could only be done with when all the permanent members of the Security Council ratify the changes. Here, the paradox starts to become more complicated.…”

Section: And the Chartermentioning

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Paradox of voting: peril of the vetoing to the perpetual peace

Ibrahimov

2023

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The permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations possess veto power which was vested to them by the Charter of the United Nations to maintain global peace and security. As many, as well as recent events (Russia’s illegal aggression towards Ukraine in 2022) exhibit, in certain circumstances casting veto power, poses some perils to the global peace, per se, and they are twofold. First, all permanent members can exercise this power, according to their will, to block any resolution of the Security Council, including those that deplore their own illegal and illegit actions. The second challenge is the amendment of the UN Charter. The present wording of the UN Charter makes amending the Charter paradoxically onerous, if not impossible (by giving huge power to the permanent members again). Consequently, this situation has long triggered and urged politicians and legal scholars to explore possible solutions. This article will humbly contemplate the issue and explore the suggestions for the reinvigoration of the existing instruments to resolve the current legal and political quagmire.

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“…The international order and the law were shattered by the Second World War (Best, 1981;Rostker, 2013). In many ways, the war was a continuation of the conflicts left unresolved by World War I, after a tense 20-year break.…”

Section: The United Nations and Its Charter (1945)mentioning

confidence: 99%