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Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook, Third Edition
This handbook provides medical personnel in the field with a concise, pocket-size reference source for the medical management of chemical casualties. It is not intended to be a definitive text on the management of chemical casualties. Chapters address Pulmonary Agents, Cyanide, Vesicants, Nerve Agents, Incapacitating Agents, Riot-Control Agents, Decontamination, Casualty Management, Chemical Defense Equipment, Patient Decontamination, Casualty Receiving Area, Personnel Decontamination Station, Toxicity Data, Physicochemical Data, Medical Equipment Set, Summary Chart, and a Glossary of Terms.
United States. Department of Defense
2000-07
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Secretary White Briefing on Homeland Security
The Secretary of the Army Tom White's briefing on homeland security addresses issues from the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on October 25, 2001 and includes a question and answer session. Secretary White reiterates the three points from the hearings: The first is to consolidate responsibility for homeland security and the myriad of issues and functions and responsibilities that touch that across the Department of Defense staff into a single organization. The second is to complete a review of the operational planning for homeland security through the Joint Staff -- the chairman, the Joint Staff, and the unified commands, to ensure that the arrangements for homeland security between the various unified commands that touch this, that those arrangements are optimal. The third strategic task is the whole business of interagency in coordination with Governor Ridge's office and all the activities that he is undertaking. Secretary White defines homeland security as having two principle elements. The first is "homeland defense." Defense is defined as those areas where the Department of Defense takes the lead in the activity, like combat air patrols under the command and control of CINC [Commander in Chief] NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command]. The second is "civil-support" that covers a wide range of activities from the federal, state, and local levels. The U.S. Guard, for example, is under state, federal, and governor's control.
United States. Department of Defense
2001-10-26
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DoD USS Cole Commission Report
"Since the attack on Khobar Towers in June 1996, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant improvements in protecting its service members, mainly in deterring, disrupting and mitigating terrorist attacks on installations. The attack on USS COLE (DDG 67), in the port of Aden, Yemen, on 12 October 2000, demonstrated a seam in the fabric of efforts to protect our forces, namely in-transit forces. The review focuses on finding ways to improve the US policies and practices for deterring, disrupting and mitigating terrorist attack on US forces in transit. In addition, the report includes an unclassified findings and recommendations summary and sections on overseas presence since the end of the Cold War, national level policies and practices, organization, antiterrorism/force protection, intelligence, training, and logistics."
United States. Department of Defense
2001-01-09
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Chemical Terrorism General Guidance (Pocket Guide)
Produced by the Employee Education System for the Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards, Department of Veterans Affairs. The information in this card is not meant to be complete but to be a quick guide; please consult other references and expert opinion, and check drug dosages, particularly for pregnancy and children. Contains information regarding diagnosis, understanding exposure, confirmation of cases, decontamination considerations, institutional reporting, and public health reporting following a suspected incident of chemical terrorism. Also includes a chart of "Chemical Terrorism Agents and Syndromes."
United States. Department of Defense
2002-04-23
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Biological Terrorism General Guidance (Pocket Guide)
Produced by the Employee Education System for the Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards, Department of Veterans Affairs. The information in this card is not meant to be
complete but to be a quick guide. Contains information on diagnosis, confirmation and technical support, decontamination considerations, and institutional reporting, as well as specifics regarding potential biological warfare agents.
United States. Department of Defense
2002-04-23
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Speech by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on the September 11 Attacks, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld gave a speech to the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce on September 27, 2002 concerning the attacks of September 11. Secretary Rumsfeld said "A decision to use military force has not been made and it is never an easy decision. It's clearly the last
choice, not the first choice. No reasonable person wakes up in the morning wanting to go to war. It's dangerous, it's deadly, and there are clearly serious risks to acting. But in this new security environment we have to face the reality that there are also very serious risks to not acting and we, each of us -- you and me, the people of this country and indeed the people of other countries need to carefully consider and weigh both of those risks -- the risk of acting as well as the risk of not acting".
United States. Department of Defense
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
2002-09-27
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Aircrew Performance: Cutting-Edge Technology
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "technology" as applied science; also as a technical method for achieving a practical purpose. This paper will present a description of emerging/cutting-edge human factors technology, and put forth the methods to achieve them. Emerging human factors areas addressed in this paper will include fatigue, vision enhancement, NBC/DEW threats, mishap reduction, as well as more nebulous areas of culture, situational awareness, spatial disorientation, simulators,and training. It is hoped that this vision will focus technological direction, so that the advances may be incorporated more rapidly into operational aviation combat systems.
United States. Department of Defense
Belland, Kris M.
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International Institute for Strategic Studies: Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Arundel House, London, England, December 2, 2002
Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Arundel House, London, England, December 2, 2002. Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz stated to the International Institute for Strategic Studies that "The goal in Iraq is disarmament; the elimination of Iraq's programs to build chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and the means to deliver them. Disarming Saddam Hussein and fighting the war on terror are not merely related; the first is a crucial part of the second. The peaceful implementation of Resolution 1441 can only happen if there is a fundamental change in the attitude of the Iraqi regime. It is not and cannot be the responsibility of the inspectors to scour every square inch of Iraq. It cannot be their responsibility to search out and find every illegal weapon or system. That would be a task beyond their means. Nor is it their responsibility to disarm Iraq. That is the responsibility of the Iraqi regime itself. What inspectors can do is give us some confidence if the regime has, in fact, assumed that responsibility, if it has, in fact, declared every weapon of mass destruction and every development program that exists and has, in fact, destroyed those and dismantled those programs."
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-12-02
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IRAQ: What Does Disarmament Look Like?
Remarks as Delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, NY, Thursday, January 23, 2003. "The threat posed by the connection between terrorist networks and states that possess these weapons of mass terror presents us with the danger of a catastrophe that could be orders of magnitude worse than September 11th. Iraq's weapons of mass terror and the terror networks to which the Iraqi regime are linked are not two separate themes, not two separate threats. They are part of the same threat. Disarming Iraq and the War on Terror are not merely related. Disarming Iraq of its chemical and biological weapons and dismantling its nuclear weapons program is a crucial part of winning the War on Terror. Iraq has had 12 years now to disarm, as it agreed to do at the conclusion of the Gulf War. But, so far, it has treated disarmament like a game of hide and seek, or as Secretary of State Powell has termed it, "rope-a-dope in the desert." But this is not a game. It is deadly serious. We are dealing with a threat to the security of our nation and the world. At the same time, however, President Bush understands fully the risks and dangers of war and the President wants to do everything humanly possible to eliminate this threat by peaceful means. That is why the President called for the U.N. Security Council to pass what became Resolution 1441, giving Iraq a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations and, in so doing, to eliminate the danger that Iraq's weapons of mass terror could fall into the hands of terrorists."
United States. Department of Defense
2003-01-23
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Reserve Officers Association
Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to the Reserve Officers Association 2003 Mid-Winter Conference and 18th Annual Military Exposition, Washington, DC, January 20, 2003. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said that while a number of terrorist states are pursuing weapons of mass destruction, the threat posed by Iraq is unique. "No living dictator has shown the deadly combination of capability and intent, of aggression against his neighbors; pursuit of weapons of mass destruction; the use of weapons of mass destruction; oppression of his own people; support of terrorism; and the most threatening hostility to its neighbors and to the United States, than Saddam Hussein."
United States. Department of Defense
2003-01-20
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Transforming the Defense Establishment
Remarks by Dr. Stephen A. Cambone, Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Bear Stearns & Company, Monday, January 27, 2003. This report goes over George W. Bush's remarks in a September 1999 candidacy speech. The topic discussed by Bush is the "revolution in the technology of war", and how our forces must be agile, lethal, readily available, and require a minimum of logistical support for the continued safety of our country and our allies.
United States. Department of Defense
2003-01-27
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Building the Bridge to a More Peaceful Future
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, The World Affairs Council and the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA, Friday, December 6, 2002. Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz told the Council that it is not the responsibility of weapons inspectors in Iraq "to scour every square inch." That would be "beyond their means," as well as their responsibility, he said. "The bottom line is that Saddam Hussein and his regime must fundamentally change their attitude and finally implement a disarmament that they agreed to more than a decade ago. If the inspectors are forced to go back to the old cat-and-mouse game that the world saw so often before, then the effort to resolve this problem peacefully will have failed."
United States. Department of Defense
2002-12-06
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Protecting the Homeland: Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Defensive Information Operations: 2000 Summer Study, Volume II
The Vulnerabilities of the United States, inextricably intertwined with our civilian structure, when coupled with known and expected capabilities of potential adversaries raise serious questions about the readiness of the DoD to conduct Defensive Information Operations. To address these challenges, this task force focused on issues and opportunities in five major areas: Architecture for Information Assurance; Technology Challenges and Applications; Organization, Operations and Readiness; Policy Implications, and; Legal Implications. The report is provided in two volumes. Volume one presents the overall observations, finding and primary recommendations for each of the five focus areas, addressed at the decision maker level. Volume two provides a detailed report for each of the five focus areas, with more specific recommendations including courses of action, cost estimates, and anticipated level of effort, addressed at the implementation level. While there is no hierarchy implicit in these topics, recommendations pertaining to some will be easier and less costly. Others, like the architecture, will have the greatest impact, take the most time, and be the most expensive. Even so, it is only the successful integration of all of the recommendations that will provide the DoD with the Information Infrastructure need to achieve the goals the joint vision.
United States. Department of Defense
2001-03
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Joint Spectrum Interference Resolution (JSIR)
This instructions purpose is to provide policy and guidance for reporting, identifying, evaluating, and controlling electromagnetic interference to achieve a goal of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) between joint Service and combatant command operations and space systems. This document also provides supplementary information (see DOD Directive C-3222.5 for further information) regarding the reporting and resolution of suspected hostile electronic attacks against DOD systems. Electronic Attacks are divided into three categories: Meaconing, Intrusion, and Jamming.
United States. Department of Defense
1999-12-01
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, gave a speech at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Deputy Wolfowitz talked about the threat of terrorism. Deputy Wolfowitz explained the tragedy of September 11, 2001 was as grave a threat to human security as World War II and the Soviet Union. Deputy Wolfowitz believes that the United States must fight terrorism with the same resolve that we fought the other two major threats to modern history, World War II and the Cold War.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-02-19
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Fletcher Conference
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, gave a speech at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Deputy Wolfowitz talked about the attacks of September 11, 2001. He explained our response and that it was going to be swift and over-whelming. The Deputy offered insight to the campaign in Afghanistan and why it was so important and that we were winning and would continue to win.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2001-11-14
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American Jewish Congress
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz delivered a speech to the American Jewish Congress on America's determination to fight international terrorism. Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz makes very clear that we did not ask for this war but that we will do whatever it takes to win. He also tells his audience that instead of taking out just individuals he was going to "drain the whole swamp".
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2001-10-22
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Center for Security Policy 'Keeper of the Flame' Award Dinner
Secertary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld presented the Keeper of the Flame award at the center for security policy. The award was presented to Jim Schlessinger who was the Director of Central
Intelligence, Secretary of Energy, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. For Mr. Schlessinger's service he is the "true Keeper of
the Flame".
United States. Department of Defense
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
2001-11-06
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Veterans' Day
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave remarks on Veterans Day honoring those brave men. Deputy Wolfowitz made many references to the war on terror and how our men and women in uniform would again prevail. Deputy Wolfowitz made reference to Winston Churchill; Churchill had written in his diary that some of his country men thought we were weak and fearful. Churchill went on to write "the United States is like 'a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate."
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2001-11-11
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New Kind of War
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech that was published in the New York Times September 27, 2001. In his speech, the secretary gave the first outline of how this war might be fought and with whom.
United States. Department of Defense
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
2001-09-27
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National Guard and Reserve Component Caucus Breakfast
As the recent phase of the campaign in Afghanistan demonstrates so clearly, our work in this war on terrorism is far from over. Even in Afghanistan we have a lot of work to do, a lot of difficult, dangerous work. And history has long proven, and as we have seen this past weekend, half-defeated and desperate enemies continue to pose considerable dangers and risk to our troops. We've seen some of the fiercest fighting so far in the last few days rooting out hard core al Qaeda members holed up in the remote mountains of Eastern Afghanistan. The Americans who have been killed in this action speak volumes about the sacrifices that our young men and women are called upon and are willing to make in defense of freedom---as do all the brave Americans who have been injured or given their lives in the cause of freedom, and as the President said the other day, "to make sure that our country is safe from future attack." We not only have delivered enormous numbers of supplies, through the success of our campaign on the ground, we've established a secure environment in which international relief organizations are now able to work.
But it's a fact that we couldn't do what we have done in this campaign against terrorism so far and what we will have to continue to do for some time to come without our citizen-soldiers.Next Monday marks six months since the attack of September 11th and in these past months Americans have come to appreciate more fully just how vital our Guard and Reserve are to our country's security. In Operation Enduring Freedom, the war overseas on terrorism, we have today over 91,000 service members from the Reserve Component taking part in Operation Enduring Freedom and what we call the operation here to protect the skies over the United States, Operation Noble Eagle, as well as all of our other operations. They are contributing major pieces of significant parts of the operation: 50 percent of the force protection for our bases and installations around the world and here at home is provided by Guardsmen and Reservists; 25 percent of warfighting support; and 25 percent of command and control, communications, intelligence and mobilization support. The willingness of Americans to come forward and serve our country and the willingness of the members of our Guard and Reserve to serve on active duty has been remarkable and heartwarming, and I would add that the employer support so far has been strong.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-03-06
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Defense Department Town Hall Meeting With Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld gave a speech at the pentagon which was followed by a Question and Answer session. The Secretary answered questions from people at the Pentagon about the War on Terrorism. Some sample questions include: what are we and our coalition partners doing to seal off the Pakistani and the Iranian border from allowing pro-Taliban and al Qaeda fighters to infiltrate into Afghanistan to join up with the guerrilla forces? Others include: how does the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians impact our war on terrorism, and what role do you see the United States playing in solving that conflict?
United States. Department of Defense
2002-03-07
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Bridging the Dangerous Gap between the West and the Muslim World
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave a speech on how best to bridge the gap between the West and the Muslim World. Deputy Wolfowitz said "We hear and read a lot today about the clash of cultures, or what Samuel Huntington called the clash of civilizations. Today, I would like to take a moment to go beyond the headlines--both to get some altitude and to look a bit deeper at what I believe is less a clash of cultures than a collision of misunderstanding between the Muslim and Western worlds.
My view on the subject of East and West, one that has been shaped by personal experience, is decidedly optimistic. But, that does not mean I am not a realist, or that I can't see the stark truth that confronts us today: There is a dangerous gap between the West and the Muslim world. We must bridge this gap, and we must begin now--the gap is wide and there is no time for delay. Whether we are successful in narrowing the critical divide between East and West will be a major factor in shaping the future.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-05-03
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Gridiron Luncheon
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave a speech at the Gannett/USA Today Headquarters. Deputy Wolfowitz said "During this critical time in our nation's history, the men and women of the press, in very great measure, give all Americans objective and unbiased reporting. They work long hours and put themselves in harm's way to tell important stories. They help to keep us and the bureaucracies that work for us, or are supposed to work for us, honest. And one of the most important stories they are telling is the story about our brave men and women who serve this country so nobly and so well, and we appreciate everything that the media is doing to tell that story."
United States. Department of Defense
2002-03-09
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San Francisco World Affairs Council
General Counsel of the Department of Defense, William J. Haynes II gave a speech to the World Affairs Council concerning the Bush Administration's approach to foreign policy and international security: that it is unilateralist and dismissive of the role of our allies and international institutions. General Counsel Haynes said "It is a critique more often heard abroad than in America, and much less frequently heard after September 11--when America assembled the most diverse coalition in history to make war on terrorism, and mobilized all the institutions of the international community to undergird that effort. Nevertheless it remains a subtext of a running commentary by critics of our foreign and defense policy, and deserves to be addressed head-on. Let me start with the so-called Rome Statute as the first case in point.
United States. Department of Defense
Haynes, William J.
2002-05-30
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Speech By Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy to the American Jewish Committee
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas J. Feith gave a speech to the American Jewish Committee concerning the war on Terrorism. Under Secretary Feith said "I'd like to talk with you about the war on terrorism - to discuss the progress of the war and share some thoughts about its nature, our objectives and our strategy. Our enemy in the war on terrorism is not a state or a group of states. Our enemy is not organized as a conventional military force. We cannot define victory as the conquering and subduing of a particular piece of territory or a people. We cannot expect that our own territory will be spared major damage so long as our armed forces remain undefeated. This is indeed a most unusual war - different from any that we fought in the past. We're fighting not a nation but a terrorist network - one might even say a network of networks, an amorphous structure present in many countries, including those of our allies, and in the United States itself. So it's a complicated struggle on multiple fronts. And we can't rely on conventional armed power to the extent we relied on such means in past wars. That's why administration officials so often stress that we must bring to bear the full range of instruments of US national power, including intelligence, financial, diplomatic and, not least, moral, as well as military tools. Fundamental to our strategy is the recognition that we can't just defend ourselves at our own borders. We have no choice but to take the offensive".
United States. Department of Defense
Feith, Douglas J.
2002-05-08
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DoD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff--Bureaucracy to Battlefield
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon in which he described Pentagon bureaucracy as an enemy of the United States. The Secretary says the "challenge is to transform not just the way we deter and defend, but the way we conduct our daily business". The secretary describes the need for this change because "the world has--and we have not yet changed sufficiently. The clearest and most important transformation is from a bipolar Cold War world where threats were visible and predictable, to one in which they arise from multiple sources, most of which are difficult to anticipate, and many of which are impossible even to know today."
United States. Department of Defense
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
2001-09-10
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American Primacy and Major Power Concert: A Critique of the 2002 National Security Strategy
The Bush administration's National Security Strategy of 2002 has attracted attention and debate largely because of its arguments about the role of preemption. But over the longer term the strategy may prove far more significant in terms of its vision for relations with Russia, China, and the other major powers. As Condoleezza Rice has argued in describing the thinking behind the strategy, "we have an historic opportunity to
break the destructive pattern of great power rivalry that has bedeviled the world since the
rise of the nation state in the 17th century." This is a bold vision. It extends the notion of
transformation from defense strategy to geopolitics. But is it viable? What is required to
achieve this ambition? The opportunity is real - this is the conclusion from an informal dialogue among analysts and policymakers from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security
Council that IDA cosponsored between 1999 and 2001. That dialogue explored the
differences of worldview, historical perspective, and national interest informing strategy
and policy in each capitol. Ranging across such myriad topics as the balance of power,
the legitimacy of humanitarian interventions, the impact of ballistic missile defense, and
the tensions between multipolarity and unipolarity, that dialogue also gave vent to
debates in each country about the requirements of peace and stability in the current era.
To the surprise of many, that dialogue extended into a deep exploration of sovereignty's
contribution to peace and to the requirements of political legitimacy. Also to a surprising
extent, issues related to weapons of mass destruction cut across much of the agenda, and
with them, questions about the ability of a "nuclear aristocracy" to provide nuclear order
over the long term. For the Americans in the dialogue process, the main message from
the others was simply that doubts about American power and purposes on the world stage
permeate every aspect of the global security dialogue. In its moment of unprecedented
power and dominance, what will America choose to do? What will it do with primacy?
United States. Department of Defense
Roberts, Brad
2002-12
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Building a Better World: One Path from Crisis to Opportunity
Remarks as Delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, at the Brookings Institution talking about the war on Terrorism. Deputy Wolfowitz said "The attacks also shined a searchlight of truth on the real intentions of the terrorists. For as Shafeeq Ghabra pointed out, the terrorists seek to target not just America, but Muslims and Islam by attacking the ideals of tolerance, justice and openness that are the aspirations of millions of Muslims around the world, as well. If the terrorists are successful in destroying these ideals, East and West alike will suffer. As I've been pointing out to audiences since that day, the terrorists target their fellow Muslims, upon whom they aim to impose a new kind of violent tyranny--a tyranny that pretends to be based on Islam but which owes more to the totalitarian impulses of the 20th century than to the great religion that the terrorists are attempting to hijack. The hundreds of millions of Muslims who aspire to modernity, freedom and prosperity are just as much on the front lines of the struggle against terrorism as are we.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-09-02
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Gathering Storm: The Threat of Global Terror and Asia/Pacific Security
Paul Wolfowitz: "Like most in this audience, I share the view that the Pacific is as important as any region in this world, perhaps the most important when we contemplate the challenges of the next half-century and the extraordinary dynamism of the Asia-Pacific region. Developing America's relationship with our Pacific partners is one of our highest security priorities. Twelve months ago, I might have called it our biggest challenge. But last September 11th, another enormous challenge intruded. We are now engaged in a relentless war on international terrorism. Yet it remains equally important to work on building a better and more secure future, and a large part of that future will be built right here in the Asia-Pacific region."
United States. Department of Defense
2002-06-01
