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DoD accidents are classified according to the severity of injury, occupational illness, and vehicle and/or property damage costs (Department of Defense, 2000). All branches of the military have similar accident classification schemes, with Class A being the most severe. Table 1 shows the accident classes for the Army. The Air Force and Navy definitions of Class A–C accidents are very similar to the Army's definition. However, they do not have a Class D. As the total costs of some Army UAVs are below the Class A criteria ($325,000 per Shadow aircraft; Schaefer, 2003), reviewers have begun to add Class D data into their analyses (Manning, Rash, LeDuc, Noback, & McKeon, 2004; Williams, 2004).

“Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality. It scoffs at any consideration of “good” and “evil” as indisputable categories. Communism considers morality to be relative, to be a class matter… It has infected the whole world with the belief in the relativity of good and evil.” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West, 1975.

Looks at the prospects of implementing CWIS networks. Considers the issues of cost savings, staff reductions, improved scholarship, time savings, computer resource reductions, data policies, data sharing, and using e‐mail. Argues that the real benefit of CWIS is that it turns a computer from anadvanced scientific tool into something that users can relate to and enjoy.

The following report was brought up by Dr. P. Brouardel, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, President of the Commission, and was submitted for the approval of the Congress:

We open a new volume of The Library World in circumstances combining hope and difficulty. The hope rests upon the knowledge that library authorities are free when and as they choose to give Great Britain libraries equalling those of the United. States and Canada. The difficulty is in the immediate financial crisis facing the country, a crisis which is partly real, partly a political stunt, and is certainly potent enough to impede any great progress for the moment. There will be real struggle in many cases and hardship perhaps in a few, and the need for mutual consultation and advice, such as this magazine provides, was never greater. Nor must it be supposed that, because we seem to refer more particularly to municipal libraries here, every other form of library, public or private, will not directly or indirectly be affected by the same influences, and be equally in need of such a medium as this. Wo have never declared any cast‐iron policy in regard to The Library World—its very freedom from fixed views has been one of its chief recommendations—but at the beginning of an editorial year a few words on our aims are not inappropriate.

Machiavelli's dictums in The Prince (1977) instigated the modern discourse on power. Arguing that “there's such a difference between the way we really live and the way we ought to live that the man who neglects the real to study the ideal will learn to accomplish his ruin, not his salvation” (Machiavelli, 1977, p. 44), his approach is a realist one. In this text, Machiavelli (1977, p. 3) endeavors to “discuss the rule of princes” and to “lay down principles for them.” Taking his lead, Foucault (1978, p. 97) argued that “if it is true that Machiavelli was among the few…who conceived the power of the Prince in terms of force relationships, perhaps we need to go one step further, do without the persona of the Prince, and decipher mechanisms on the basis of a strategy that is immanent in force relationships.” He believed that we should “investigate…how mechanisms of power have been able to function…how these mechanisms…have begun to become economically advantageous and politically useful…in a given context for specific reasons,” and, therefore, “we should…base our analysis of power on the study of the techniques and tactics of domination” (Foucault, 1980, pp. 100–102). Conceptualizing such techniques and tactics as the “art of governance”, Foucault (1991), examined power as strategies geared toward managing civic populations through shaping people's dispositions and behaviors.

THE continuance of war into the New Year proves again the fatuousness of prophecy which had assured us of peace, or at least the cessation of hostilities, by Christmas. We have to face now what must be another year of conflict, unless miracles occur as they sometimes do in war, and thus the postponement of many of the plans that the Library Association and a great many other bodies and persons have been making; but we must not offend by prophesying. At this time a glance back on the record of 1944 is justifiable and may be salutary.