Read an Aug. 29, 2008, American Forces Press Service story from the U.S. Department of Defense about Muslim chaplains.

Read a 2004 report that includes religious preferences in the military (see Page 25). The report found that service personnel were less likely than the general population to have a religious affiliation.

Read the U.S. Department of Defense Directive 1300.17, which governs the accommodation of religious practices in the military services.

The U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., does research and training on peacekeeping.

Frank Flinn is an adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He has served as a forensic expert on the legal definition of religion, religious organizations, religious finances and various religious controversies, and he has testified concerning Scientology and many other New Religious Movements. Flinn wrote “Scientology: The Marks of Religion,” which examines the […]

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is charged with caring for American veterans, their families and their survivors. Eric Shinseki has been Secretary 0f Veterans Affairs since January 2009.

Zen Buddhist teacher Joseph Bobrow founded the Coming Home Project in San Francisco to help veterans returning from combat.

The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center is the federal clearinghouse for treatment and research of traumatic brain injury suffered by military personnel. The center posts data about the incidence of TBI; as of mid-2013, more than 280,000 U.S. military personnel had suffered such an injury since 2000. Contact through the website.

Read the May 2007 study from the Michael D. Palm Center at the University of California-Santa Barbara.