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Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Watch your step' — Are land mines making a comeback?
The first recorded use of pressure-activated land mines was by the Confederate army in 1862 during the Civil War. Union soldiers thought they were barbarous, cowardly weapons — but by the 20th century, they were everywhere. Land mines defined combat in both World War I and World War II, and were a major part of war plans during the Cold War. But the 1997 Ottawa Treaty began to remove them from stockpiles across 163 nations that signed it. But even as they faded from military inventories, land mines left behind by previous conflicts created ever higher casualties among civilians, long after battlefields returned to peaceful use. But with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, countries across Europe with Russian borders, like Poland and Finland, see land mines in their future as well as their past. And North and South Korea were never part of past agreements, and their border remains heavily mined. On this week's Task & Purpose video, Thom Tran explores the history of land mines and their vital, problematic role on the battlefield today. Each week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, Task & Purpose will be bringing in military veterans to host segments on different topics. These will range from breakdowns of tactics and doctrine to explainers on new tech and weapons systems, but each will be researched, reported and reviewed by the journalists on the Task & Purpose team. As with the stories we cover on the website, these videos will look at these topics from a rank-and-file perspective. This means they'll aim to answer questions such as: Why does this matter to a junior service member about to deploy to [name a country], or who will have to use [name a weapon system] or deal with [name a problem or threat]. If you enjoyed this week's video, please hop on over to our YouTube channel and follow the team there. And if you have suggestions for future topics our video team can cover, please hop in the comments and let us know. Navy fires commanding officer, command master chief of expeditionary security squadron The Marine Corps has settled the debate over the size of a rifle squad Leg day: Army cuts down on number of paid parachutists Navy commissions its newest submarine, the USS Iowa Why veterans are the real target audience for 'Helldivers 2'
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
The end of the ‘Golden Hour' and the transformation of U.S. military combat medicine
During the post-9/11 wars, the US military came as close to perfecting near-immediate trauma care on the battlefield as the chaos of combat would allow. No matter how a soldier was injured, if a medic was nearby, the odds were in their favor. Air superiority, MEDEVAC helicopters, Combat Support Hospitals, and Forward Surgical Teams meant combat casualties had a good chance to meet 'the golden hour' — the race to get a trauma patient into an operating room within 60 minutes. But as the wars dragged on, evidence came in that perhaps the Golden Hour wasn't the ideal measure. A case study published in the Journal of Special Operations Medicine Spring 2019 issue found that 95% of early deaths resulting from traumatic injuries may have been prevented if the patient had undergone damage control surgery within 23 minutes of injury, not a full hour. While the Golden Hour created the infrastructure of the modern U.S. military's battlefield medical doctrine, its era is likely over. In future conflicts, medical evacuation is aiming to be much faster — more like 20 minutes or less or — in a war without air superiority and no access to higher care, much longer. 'You may have previously heard a discussion of the 'Golden Hour',' Brigadier General Anthony McQueen told Task & Purpose as the commander of the Army's Medical Research and Development Command. 'We're moving more to a 'golden window of opportunity.'' In this week's Task & Purpose video, 'Every Second Counts,' stand-up comedian and Army veteran Thom Tran walks through the U.S. military's evolving approach to combat medical care, evacuation and why the 'Golden Hour' is really about 20 minutes. Each week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, Task & Purpose will be bringing in military veterans to host segments on different topics. These will range from breakdowns of tactics and doctrine to explainers on new tech and weapons systems, but each will be researched, reported and reviewed by the journalists on the Task & Purpose team. As with the stories we cover on the website, these videos will look at these topics from a rank-and-file perspective. This means they'll aim to answer questions such as: Why does this matter to a junior service member about to deploy to [name a country], or who will have to use [name a weapon system] or deal with [name a problem or threat]. If you enjoyed this week's video, please hop on over to our YouTube channel and follow the team there. And if you have suggestions for future topics our video team can cover, please hop in the comments and let us know. Navy fires commanding officer, command master chief of expeditionary security squadron The Marine Corps has settled the debate over the size of a rifle squad Leg day: Army cuts down on number of paid parachutists Navy commissions its newest submarine, the USS Iowa Why veterans are the real target audience for 'Helldivers 2'
