Comments on: Col. Peter Mansoor on Health in Counterinsurgency Doctrine http://conflicthealth.com/col-peter-mansoor-on-health-in-counterinsurgency-doctrine/ Defending Health Against Persecution, Violence, And Armed Conflict Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:29:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Warner Anderson MD http://conflicthealth.com/col-peter-mansoor-on-health-in-counterinsurgency-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Warner Anderson MD Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:00:32 +0000 http://warandhealth.com/col-peter-mansoor-on-health-in-counterinsurgency-doctrine/#comment-292 This is a pivotal question and, like many in medicine, is ultimately unknown. But we should see "security" as 2 separate states: a physical state, and a state of mind. These are different but related, and the relationship is not by any means 1:1. Physical security allows health services on large scale, and this in turn contributes to mental security. After 9/11, it was hard to make an argument that the average man on the street in America or Europe faced any significant personal or family threat of terrorism. The main trauma threat remained, and still is, death or serious injury in a motor vehicle collision. But did Americans quit driving? Mental security is thus only loosely related to physical security. But mental security is the necessary - sine qua non - ingredient to trust-building, reconciliation, and meaningful political and economic progress. This is where health services influence the process. This is a pivotal question and, like many in medicine, is ultimately unknown. But we should see “security” as 2 separate states: a physical state, and a state of mind. These are different but related, and the relationship is not by any means 1:1. Physical security allows health services on large scale, and this in turn contributes to mental security.

After 9/11, it was hard to make an argument that the average man on the street in America or Europe faced any significant personal or family threat of terrorism. The main trauma threat remained, and still is, death or serious injury in a motor vehicle collision. But did Americans quit driving?

Mental security is thus only loosely related to physical security. But mental security is the necessary – sine qua non – ingredient to trust-building, reconciliation, and meaningful political and economic progress. This is where health services influence the process.

]]> By: mary potratz http://conflicthealth.com/col-peter-mansoor-on-health-in-counterinsurgency-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-290 mary potratz Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:00:35 +0000 http://warandhealth.com/col-peter-mansoor-on-health-in-counterinsurgency-doctrine/#comment-290 Dear Col. Mansoor: C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S. We, the citizens of the United States can only hope to learn the truths behind the "disastrous war of choice" from leaders like you. It should be warning to legislators not to rubber-stamp ideology. So many of the great military leaders were "fired" early on or "forced" into retirement throughout this mess by the incompetence of the so-called "experienced" in this administration. I have read many of the books already published and will soon read yours. Even though I am a 76 year young woman, when I read in the first weeks, of our fighters writing home for the proper lubricants to clean their firearms I was devastated. Having come from a long family line of machine tool workers I saw what would come in the years ahead for our military. The comments of Rumsfield "go with what you have and not with what you wished you had." It Spoke words as to how and what supplies would be forthcoming to our troops. Again incompetence. "Their legacy will be their blood stained fingerprints forever ingrained on the pages of history." (My words.) Keep up your good works. Sincerely, Mary Dear Col. Mansoor: C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S. We, the citizens of the United States can only hope to learn the truths behind the “disastrous war of choice” from leaders like you. It should be warning to legislators not to rubber-stamp ideology. So many of the great military leaders were “fired” early on or “forced” into retirement throughout this mess by the incompetence of the so-called “experienced” in this administration. I have read many of the books already published and will soon read yours. Even though I am a 76 year young woman, when I read in the first weeks, of our fighters writing home for the proper lubricants to clean their firearms I was devastated. Having come from a long family line of machine tool workers I saw what would come in the years ahead for our military. The comments of Rumsfield “go with what you have and not with what you wished you had.” It Spoke words as to how and what supplies would be forthcoming to our troops. Again incompetence.
“Their legacy will be their blood stained fingerprints forever ingrained on the pages of history.” (My words.) Keep up your good works.
Sincerely, Mary

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