Since the mid-19th century, the United States has frequently employed the U.S. Army on its southern border to perform various roles in support of t...

Military health care professionals serve in a variety of settings, more diverse than is typically found in the civilian environment. The Military H...

This book provides background information and presents potential issues for Congress concerning the Navy's ship force-structure goals and shipbuild...

The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) conducted an environmental scan of the training, outreach, and resourc...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has assisted veterans with home-ownership since 1944, when Congress enacted the loan guaranty program to he...

A broad range of medical care services and benefits are offered to veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. This book examines a variety of medical condi...

The 2012 Suicide Data Report contains prevalence data and characteristics of suicide among Veterans and evidence of change in outcomes among Vetera...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), operates the nation's largest integrated direct health ca...

The reports that make up this book examine various veteran issues, including what constitutes basic eligibility for veterans’ benefits, military be...

In this book, the authors discuss topical issues relating to veterans including transfusion therapy for veteran patients; low serum vitamin D and i...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military service-members. Topics discussed in this is...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military servicemembers. Topics discussed in this iss...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military service members. Topics discussed in this is...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military service members. Topics discussed in this is...

Veterans' employment outcomes in the civilian sector are an issue of ongoing congressional interest that has received particular attention during t...

Between 2005 and 2013, the number of veterans receiving mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Health Administra...

In 2016, the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) centralized distribution of the disability compensation claims workload through the National Wo...

In fiscal year 2012, various VA education programs provided nearly $11 billion in education payments to almost 1 million veterans. The 2008 Post-9/...

While many veterans who served in the military after 11 September 2001, have successfully readjusted to civilian life with minimal difficulties in ...

For years, the Veterans Administration (VA) has struggled with an increasing workload of disability compensation claims. The average time to comple...

The lengthy delays of benefit claims decisions that persist for Veterans returning home with injuries from recent (and past) conflicts confound the...

In fiscal year 2013, VA provided over $12 billion in benefits for veterans' post-secondary education; however, questions have been raised as to whe...

The report on Kurt Waldheim's activities on the Balkans during World War II attracted political attention when its conclusions became known in 1988...

Under the Constitution, the war powers are divided between Congress and the President. Among other relevant grants, Congress has the power to decla...

This memoir of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion during the Syrian campaign of the late 1920s relates the brutal story of life in the Legi...

In approximately 10 years of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, over 283,000 female members have been deployed, over 800 have been wounded ...

Trauma-Informed Care for Women Veterans Experiencing Homelessness was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Women's Bureau (WB) as one...