This combat environment -- now containing males and females -- will place a tremendous burden on combat commanders.

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Although the Army has good reason to be concerned about the budget environment that lies ahead, it probably should be more concerned about the combat environment it could face once it mothballs its combat-vehicle plants.

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The ongoing assessment and treatment by the paramedics could be available to the hospital-based team supporting them, and the documentation might not even require touching the computer because of voice navigation, voice recognition and noise-cancelling microphones developed for an environment as noisy as combat.

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But the American military organisation is truly functional only in the environment for which it was designed: combat.

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Instead, this new effort involves workers, suppliers and companies as active partners in efforts to improve child and maternal health, promote gender equality and empower women, combat disease, strengthen local communities and protect the environment wherever they do business.

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Their staffs analyze the current environment and decide what forces they require to maintain peace, or if necessary, conduct combat operations.

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