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The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service to enlisted loved ones in some countries could almost quadruple. Starting on May 16, new United States Postal Service (USPS) regulations will prohibit iPads, Kindles, smartphones, and other electronics with lithium batteries from being mailed to overseas troops or foreign customers.

Instead, like the military, nurture an environment of moral courage, one in which team members break stupid rules, and suggest smarter solutions. When Fred Krawchuk was a lieutenant colonel, the U.S. Army sent him to business school

Psychiatrist Joseph Hullet says more active combat situations makes returning Iraq, Afghanistan veterans more at risk for PTSD, mental disorders

Ninety percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan's poppy fields -- much of it is turned into heroin

Ninety percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan's poppy fields -- much of it is turned into heroin

Giving back to the community is harder than it looks. What would you do in a situation like this? Sometimes trying to do something nice doesn’t work out so well.

Roadside bombs are often responsible for what's been called the "signature wound" for troops on the battlefield: brain injuries. Clarissa Ward visited the Concussion Care Center at Forward Operating Base Fenti in Afghanistan, where specialists there are taking a new approach to helping the wounded

Joie de Vivre Hotels founder explains how your customers, your employees, and even your investors have the same five needs. Deliver on them and you cant lose.

"The military has learned that when you seed an economy, people will put down their guns," says Connie Duckworth . "That’s why the Marines asked me to don 30 pounds of body armor to meet with them in Helmand Province in Afghanistan," where she had established Arzu Studio Hope , an artisanal rug manufacturer that employs 1,000 women, who in turn support 4,000 family members in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is officially the worst place in the world for women, according to a 2011 study by Thompson Reuters Trust Law.

These are tough times for science and technology journalists, who, if they still have jobs, rarely have the time and travel budgets required for in-depth reporting. But some journalists are still managing to produce tough, labor-intensive, on-the-ground investigations of vitally important topics. One standout is my long-time friend Glenn Zorpette of IEEE Spectrum , the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

After losing a limb in leading a platoon through an ambush in Iraq, Halfaker transformed her life of service in the military into a life of service through entrepreneurship.

A heat-seeking missile bearing down on an aircraft zeros in on the infrared signature of its exhaust. In the past the aircraft might deploy flares or, if the plane was large enough, it might use a rudimentary laser to disrupt the incoming missile's guidance system. Neither of these approaches has proved reliable enough for the U.S

Guarding the fuel trucks that power America's armed forces overseas has turned into a deadly job. The military is realizing that saving money on gas isn't the most important reason to switch to clean fuel.

How are flimsy pieces of wood like the employees in your organization? The man who led coalition forces in Afghanistan explains why "plywood is a state of mind." It's rare to see someone get worked up about plywood. Much less a four-star general.

The Afghanistan province of Badakshan was once recorded to have the world's highest maternal mortality rate.