Yusuf Ziya Türk

The Role Of Intelligence, Surveillance, And Reconnaissance In Disaster And Public Health Emergency

Correspondence: Unal Demirtas, MD Gulhane Military Medical Academy Military Health Services General Doktor Tevfik Sağlam Cad. Ankara Keçiören 06010, Turkey In the last few years, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities have played an important role in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. ISR assets help identify for first responders, federal civil agencies, and government and private aid organizations, the areas where relief efforts should be focused and what kind of supplies and aid victims need. Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance is a rubric used by the joint forces to describe all activities associated with collecting, integrating, analyzing, disseminating and exploiting militarily relevant information about other nations and non-state actors. It includes not only the secret information collected by technical means and human agents, but also open-source intelligence gleaned from places like the Internet. Practitioners often distinguish between strategic ISR that is of interest to national agencies or multiple military services, and more perishable tactical intelligence that is only of use to particular fighting units in specific circumstances, but there is no clear dividing line between the two areas. Whatever the nature of the information, a complete ISR system necessarily includes collection systems for acquiring raw data, hardware and software for fusing the data into a meaningful picture, analytic tools for interpreting that picture, and networks for moving the processed information to potential users in a timely fashion. In this context, NATO defined the terms involved in ISR:

A Study on the Relationships Between Burnout Status and OrganizationalCommitment

Abstract Despite the fact that; there are various studies that have been performed on burnout syndrome and organizational commitment; number of studies that focus on the relationship between these two concepts is rather low. Target population of this includes 105 active duty health officers who have been serving under the roof of Turkish Armed Forces for more than 10 years in Ankara. The survey form is designed to include demographical features of participants, “Maslach Burnout Inventory” (MBI) and “Continuance and Affective Commitment Scale” of Mayer and Allen. When burnout levels are evaluated according to demographical features; active duty health officers who are graduated from NCOHC, serve in the military quarters and married with children, are found out to have higher scores in terms of affective burnout dimension and depersonalization sub-dimension. When affective burnout levels are evaluated according to location of duty; officers who work in military quarters have been found to have a higher affective burnout score; which has also been discovered to be statistically relevant as well (p=0,033). This study has been evaluated to be a beneficial contribution for future regulations which may intend to increase the overall morale and motivation, decrease the organizational burnout and increase the organizational commitment.