基于系统工程的装备作战试验组织实施流程问题研究

提出了基于系统工程理论和方法的装备作战试验组织实施流程。分析了装备作战试验组织实施的系统工程需求和美军装备作战试验组织实施特点,提出了装备作战试验基于时间维、逻辑维和知识维的系统工程三维结构和包括14个实施步骤的系统工程应用架构,分析了作战试验系统工程应用的评估、决策、优化等辨识过程,探索了试验目标规划、总体方案设计、试验资源及条件建设、试验部署实施、试验鉴定与评估等5个不同组织实施阶段的系统工程具体应用,给出了作战试验组织实施过程中的系统工程应用实例。     

基于系统工程的装备试验与评价需求研究

针对装备试验与评价需求把握不全面,试验类型概念界定不准确的问题,研究了装备全寿命周期的试验与评价需求。应用"硬"系统工程方法论中的三维结构方法体系,从预先研究(宏观论证、型号论证)、工程研制、试制生产、生产部署、使用保障、退役报废等阶段分析了装备系统工程对试验与评价的需求,从试验内容、试验目的、对象规模、对象形态等角度对装备试验进行了分类,给出了相关试验类型术语。     

航天部队试验综合能力评估模型研究

根据航天试验综合能力评估的特点和要求,依据系统工程的理论方法,确定了装备、人员和保障能力为主要评估要素,设置了评估层次和控制点,建立了航天试验综合能力评估模型。该模型由下至上分为3个层次：基础层主要对分系统各岗位人员和所属装备进行评估;分系统层主要对人员素质、装备性能和保障能力进行评估;系统层主要对整个系统的综合试验能力进行评估。通过实例表明该模型大大提高了航天试验综合能力量化评估的准确性。     

地空导弹装备战场损伤等级的综合指标评判

全面考虑了影响地空导弹装备战场损伤等级评判的各种因素,对地空导弹装备战场损伤等级进行了划分,并应用层次分析法和模糊综合评判的理论,建立了地空导弹装备战场损伤等级的二级综合指标评判模型,实现了地空导弹装备战场损伤等级的定量评价.     

基于企业建模方法的装备保障业务体系建模

基于多视图建模思想,采用企业建模方法,构建了装备保障业务"组织-资源-过程"3维描述模型,分析了各维模型的建模方法,并通过装备保障业务实例阐述了各维模型的实现过程。研究表明:所建的3维描述模型既能实现装备保障业务的全面描述,又简化了模型体系的复杂程度,为理解装备保障业务活动、开发综合集成信息系统提供了有效支撑。     

虚拟装备操作训练的综合评价模型研究与应用

针对目前虚拟操作训练的评价方法中均未考虑指标的模糊性和随机性问题,引入正态云模型理论,提出了基于层次分析法、熵权法的云模糊综合评价模型,实现对虚拟训练过程的全面评价。通过对虚拟装备操作训练的标准操作流程分析,给出了虚拟操作训练综合评价指标体系;利用层次分析法和熵权法确定指标权重,减少了主观因素对权重分配的影响,并以云模型和模糊综合评价相结合的方法建立云模糊综合评价模型,降低了评价指标的模糊性和随机性对结果的影响。最后通过实例仿真验证了模型的有效性,结果表明该模型能对操作人员的操作水平进行客观全面的评价。     

基于模糊综合评价的光电对抗装备效能评估

为定量评估光电对抗装备效能,通过对装备结构和功能的系统分析,建立了光电对抗装备效能评估指标体系和3级模型。采用层次分析法确定各因素的权重,运用模糊综合评价的方法分别对定性指标和定量指标的隶属度进行区分计算,并通过算例验证该模型的具体应用过程。仿真实例证明该方法的可行性和有效性,该方法可应用于其他武器装备效能评估中。     

基于主成分分析的区域装备保障能力评估方法

针对区域装备保障能力评价问题,提出基于主成分分析的区域装备保障能力评价方法.该方法利用主成分分析法,在数据信息丢失最少的原则下,对区域装备保障多指标变量空间进行降维处理,用主成分解释资料的综合性指标,用以评价区域装备保障能力.建立了区域的装备保障能力的指标体系,建立基于主成分分析的评估模型,通过算例证明方法的有效性.     

基于Agent的装备采购供应商仿真模型研究

装备采购合同管理是一项复杂系统工程,目前常用的管理科学和系统工程的方法难以对其进行建模仿真并量化分析。基于Agent的仿真技术是研究复杂系统的一种有效、重要的方法。针对装备采办合同管理中的供应商选择问题,运用多Agent仿真技术建立模型并进行仿真。通过对仿真结果的分析,提出了有效选择供应商的合理建议。     

挣值管理在装备寿命周期费用控制中的应用

在阐述挣值法的概念以及评价指标体系的基础上,建立了挣值管理在装备寿命周期费用控制中的三维模型,并将进度维中的各个里程碑与寿命周期过程结合起来,应用作业成本法对各个里程碑计划价值进行求解,最后举例说明,挣值法能够对装备寿命周期费用进行有效的预测和控制。     

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.     

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.     

Reviews

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Ian Knight, Zulu: Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, 22–23 January 1879. London: Windrow & Greene, 1992. Pp.136, 150 illus., incl 8 colour plates, maps, biblio. £35. ISBN 1–872004–23–7

Ian Knight, By the Orders of the Great White Queen: Campaigning in Zululand through the Eyes of the British Soldiers, 1879. London: Greenhill Books and Novato: Presidio Press, 1992. Pp. 272, 17 illus., 1 map. £18.95. ISBN 1–85367–122–3

Manfried Rauchensteiner and Erwin A. Schmidl (eds.), Formen des Krieges: vom Mittelalter zum ‘Low‐intensity’ Conflict’. Graz : Verlag Styria, 1991. Pp.208. DM35. ISBN 3–22–12139–7

Harold J. Kearsley, Maritime Power and the Twenty‐First Century. Dartmouth: Dartmouth Publishing Company, Limited, 1992. Pp.xv + 203, 13 diagrams, index. £32.50. ISBN 1–85521–288–9     

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.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.