验前信息可信度及其在Bayes评估中的应用

验前信息的计算与合理应用是Bayes方法在武器系统射击密集度评估中的关键问题之一.对验前信息可信度定义、计算及其在Bayes 评估中的应用进行了阐述,提出了考虑验前信息可信度的射击密集度Bayes评估新方法,为武器系统射击密集度评估提出了新思路.     

小子样条件下巡航导弹的命中精度评估方法

针对巡航导弹定型试验发数少、验前试验信息源多的特点,提出小子样条件下,通过可信性检验分别得到每个验前信息源的可信度,在导弹落点偏差分布为正态-逆伽马分布的假设下,获得评估的验前分布参数,选择基于可信度的加权方法对多源验前信息进行融合,采用Bayes估计方法得到命中精度。最后结合实例进行仿真,说明了该方法较传统的Bayes方法更稳健,很适合巡航导弹命中精度的评估。     

贝叶斯方法在某型防空导弹武器系统可靠性评估中的应用

提出采用贝叶斯(Bayes)方法分析防空导弹武器系统的可靠性问题.首先对各种不同分布类型的单元进行Bayes可靠性分析,利用某型防空导弹武器系统的试验信息构造系统可靠性验前分布,再利用Bayes定理和系统试验信息更新系统可靠性的验前分布得到验后分布,最后对系统可靠性进行评估.仿真算例说明了评估方法的合理性.     

射击精度评估新技术

以某远程武器射击精度鉴定问题为对象,研究了运用Bayes理论从仿真试验数据中提取有用信息,从而实现在少量试验样本情况下有效完成射击精度试验鉴定任务的方法.尝试在准确描述远程武器射击精度的动力学仿真模型的基础上,将均匀设计法应用于射击精度的仿真,介绍了运用自助(bootstrap)法从仿真试验结果中获取验前信息的基本思想和一般方法,以及在获得验前信息后结合现场试验样本进行射击精度鉴定的方法.     

考虑验前信息可信度时的Bayes估计

研究了考虑验前信息可信度时的验前分布和Bayes估计算法,给出了正态总体参数的Bayes估计方法。以导弹落点散布的估计为例,说明了考虑验前信息可信度时Bayes估计有明显的改善,即具有更好的可信度。     

多源信息的Bayes融合精度鉴定方法

为了合理运用多种验前信息 ,文中首先引入了验前信息的可信度的概念 ,由此论述了验前信息与现场试验信息的融合方法 ,给出了多源信息下的Bayes精度鉴定方案。最后以实例说明鉴定方案的运用。     

基于Bayes方法的射击密集度评估

以某远程武器射击密集度鉴定问题为对象,研究了运用Bayes 理论从仿真试验数据中提取有用信息,从而实现在少量试验样本情况下有效完成射击密集度试验鉴定任务的方法.将最大熵法应用于射击密集度估计,介绍了运用自助(Bootstrap)法从仿真试验结果中获取验前信息的基本思想和一般方法,以及在获得验前信息后结合现场试验样本进行射击密集度鉴定的方法.     

利用构造性仿真评估导弹精度

通过对导弹落点散布的构造性仿真获得了落点(均值与方差)的验前分布参数,通过与现场试验数据的相容性检验获得了验前信息的可信度,在考虑验前信息可信度的情况下获得了命中点的均值与方差的验后Bayes估计。算例表明该方法对于仿真信息的应用合理可信,考虑可信度下的Bayes估计具有较好的置信度。     

武器系统研制单位管理水平的贝叶斯评估分析

将Bayes理论应用于对武器系统研制单位管理水平的评估.克服了验前评估方法主观性大的缺陷,充分利用收集到的补充信息,对评估结果作了后验预分析,得到了更加可信的评估结论,从而改进了决策过程.     

导弹命中精度综合鉴定方法研究

在对现行导弹命中精度鉴定方法不合理性进行分析的基础上,应用Bayes方法基本原理和仿真技术,以研制阶段试验结果和数字仿真试验结果为验前信息,推导并给出了服从正态分布的导弹命中精度评估方法,同时结合具体实例加以分析运用,计算结果表明,此种方法可以充分利用各种试验信息,提高鉴定结论的可信度.     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

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).     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

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.     

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.     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.