基于SNA的指挥控制关系及其中心性分析

社会网络分析方法(Social Network Analysis,以下简称SNA)是指挥控制关系研究领域新近引入的一种有效的定量分析方法.从社会学的角度分析了指挥控制关系网络中权力的"影响"和"支配"两个维度,研究了C2组织中的指挥控制权力和指挥控制关系.结合一个想定,从点度中心性和中间中心性两个方面介绍了指挥控制关系中心性研究的基本思路,并且借助于社会网络分析应用软件,对想定中的C2组织进行了中心性的实际计算和分析,得出的结论对于C2组织及指挥控制关系的设计和建模仿真具有重要意义.     

C2组织指挥控制关系的形式化描述*

针对C2组织的指挥控制关系目前还缺少很好地形式化描述方法,其量化研究比较困难,从C2组织的实体及实体之间的关系出发,形式化描述C2组织指挥(纵向)关系、横向关系、资源配置关系、执行关系等四种关系,最终构建出一个指挥控制关系网,为运用复杂网络理论以及图论等方法对指挥控制关系的量化分析研究提供基础。     

基于布尔网络的指挥控制关系网络演化冲突检测研究

指挥控制组织内部各个实体之间的无冲突的协同配合对使命任务的完成具有重要作用,然而指挥控制组织的内部冲突往往是隐性的,不易被发现。利用生物群落中种群数量演化分析方法,提出一种基于布尔网络的指挥控制关系网络演化模型,通过指挥控制关系网络演化稳定结果的检测,来分析和检验指挥控制组织的合理性,并用一个示例分析和说明该方法的有效性。     

C2关系网络演化生成特性分析*

在网络中心作战背景下,为了探索"聚力前沿"(Power to the Edge)现实要求下的指挥控制(C2)关系动态演化规律,讨论了两种实元的加入策略模型:"信息最优加入"策略(BIMS)和"随机加入"策略(RMS):提出了信息资源利用率、信息资源命中率、信息传输有效率等三个指挥控制关系网络效能指标和一种加权评价方法.通过对仿真结果的分析,发现了BIMS策略下C2关系网络演化过程中存在的自组织、自适应现象,得出了BIMS策略下C2关系网络将具有无尺度网络特征这一结论.最后,比较了BIMS策略和RMS策略下的C2关系网效能和抗随机干扰能力,发现前者优于后者,而且BIMS策略下C2关系网具有逐渐优化的能力.     

指挥控制组织结构扁平化分析及测度

为分析研究指挥控制(Command and Control,C2)组织结构的扁平化程度,给出了指挥控制树和协作交流网的概念,阐述了金字塔式C2组织结构和扁平式C2组织结构。在此基础之上,针对两种C2组织运作环境,分别设计基于拓扑的C2组织结构扁平化测度和基于任务的C2组织结构扁平化测度。案例给出了两种组织结构的扁平化测度计算结果,结果及比较分析表明扁平化测度计算方法的可行性和有效性。     

空面攻防对抗指挥控制系统的节点网络复杂度

分析了网络中心战环境下空面攻防对抗作战系统的结构组成,给出了指挥控制系统的节点网络图构建方法与指挥控制系统节点网络复杂度的计算方法,研究了节点网络复杂性与节点间的协作性对指挥控制系统延时的影响,研究了考虑指挥控制系统延时情况下的作战效能,并进行了相应的仿真计算与分析.结果表明在网络中心战环境下,空面攻防对抗作战指挥控制系统网络节点的复杂性与节点间的协作性对系统延时和作战效能具有较大的影响.研究结果可以为空面攻防对抗作战系统的作战节点配置提供理论决策依据.     

以网络为中心的指挥控制组织探索性分析

以计算组织理论以及探索性分析方法为基础,提出对以网络为中心的指挥控制(Command Control, C2)组织的探索性分析方法的进行效能优化的探索性建模和优化方法.通过对信息化战场指挥控制组织及其组织要素的建模,建立动态适应使命与环境变化的指挥控制组织模型;通过对指挥控制组织及其组织要素多类角色和多个维度的相互关系以及相应信息流、控制流的结构建模分析,建立并优化指挥控制组织及其组织要素之间的关于多种使命环境、组织属性的重叠网络模型.通过探索性分析方法,研究信息化战场网络指挥控制组织的动态重构的离散时态演化机制,并对指挥控制组织网络构成的有效性进行测度和优化.     

基于ePCANS模型的C2组织本体建模方法

指挥控制(C2)是战场的核心,现代C2组织既要能支持网络中心行动,还要能支持"计算战",因此建立C2组织的高层概念框架和一致的知识表达框架是C2组织研究的核心问题。对PCANS模型进行扩展,建立了C2组织高层概念模型——扩展PCANS(ePCANS),以ePCANS模型为基础,提出了C2组织本体的概念体系,并研究了C2组织本体建模方法。研究成果对C2组织的概念与应用研究具有重要的参考价值。     

考虑节点自修复能力的C2关系网络毁伤特性研究

针对指挥控制关系网络受到攻击时节点及网络毁伤程度的量化评价问题,首先形式化定义了攻击强度和节点自修复能力函数,在此基础上,分别给出了网络中节点无自修复能力和自修复能力随时间变化时的节点毁伤模型。最后通过仿真计算,得到了节点的失效过程描述以及随机攻击和选择性攻击两种不同攻击目标选择方式下网络效率随攻击时间的变化关系。     

基于复杂网络理论的C2组织结构

从复杂网络理论角度,构造出了C2组织结构的网络拓扑模型,并根据C2组织结构的网络特性提出了一个重要的统计特性——节点的重要度,说明节点与其他节点联系的紧密性和重要性,进而分析了C2组织结构网络中的各个统计参数在C2组织结构网络中所具有的现实意义,并基于某个作战想定构建出C2组织结构网络的动态演化过程,更深层次地分析C2组织结构的合理性和高效性,为优化C2组织结构奠定基础。     

Putin – the masked nemesis of the strategy of ambiguity

Recent events demonstrate the complex and adaptive approach employed by Russia to reassert influence in Europe. The changing face of Russia’s strategy commenced in 2007 when it launched a crippling cyber-attack against Estonia. This was followed by a large Russian conventional attack against Georgia in 2008, occupying two large areas of the nation. 2014 witnessed the Russian annexation of Crimea where in just a week, Russia seized control of Crimea “without firing a shot.” The annexation of Crimea was rapidly followed by a Russian inspired and led subversive war in eastern Ukraine. The common thread among these diverse Russian operations is its use of ambiguity to confound and confuse decision makers in the West.     

India's counter-insurgency experience: the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy

The Indian Army, a force trained primarily for conventional warfare, has been engaged in internal counter-insurgency operations since the 1950s. Despite such a long innings on a counter-insurgency mode, little attention has been accorded within military circles to doctrinal innovation for waging sub-conventional warfare in India's democratic political context. At best, the Army continues to view counter-insurgency duty as secondary to its primary duty of defending India from external conventional threats. By conceptualizing a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’, this article aims to fill this critical doctrinal gap in India's military policy. The author argues that a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’ based on democratic political culture, measured military methods, special counter-insurgency forces, local social and cultural awareness and an integrative nation-building approach will result in positive handling of India's internal security problems. The author utilizes India's counter-insurgency experiences in Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, and Operation ‘Sadhbhavana’ in Jammu and Kashmir as illustrative empirical indicants in order to validate the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

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Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.