MILITARY MEDICAL planners are facing today's realities, analyzing yesterday's experiences, and contemplating tomorrow's 21st-century world.
Having to deal simultaneously with the present, past, and future is quite a challenge. But physicians in the US Air Force, Army, and Navy and other military health care team planners have little choice.
They are preparing the medical future of a military that now is being reduced in size. While this is going on, these planners also must try to apply medical lessons learned in Desert Shield/Storm and other recent operations.
One thing is clear. The complex nature of any present or future military operations will require the Medical Corps to (as Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest usually is misquoted) "get there first with the most."
In short, US military medicine must be prepared to go farther, faster, and be ready more promptly to deal with a wider
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