美国陆军轻-中型部队数字化改造策略、进程及启示

综合论述了规模空前的美陆军联合应急部队高级战斗试验(JCFAWE)和美陆军战场数字化师顶点演习(DCX)初期试验梗概及下一步技术改进设想;简要介绍了美陆军通信与电子司令部立项并委托开发研制的一种称作“预言者”的新型战场电子侦察系统,该系统打算用来装备美陆军初级过渡性旅战斗队,以最大程度地提高其战场感知能力;通过分析美陆军轻-中型部队数字化改造策略及当前进展情况,提出一些发展我军武器装备建设,尤其是在未来数字化战场上,实现战术级指挥自动化系统与武器系统火力支援平台的无缝隙连接,以及在此基础上实现实时数据、图象与话音通信和增强战场态势感知信息共享的粗浅看法。     

美陆军在伊拉克战争中战术通信组织与实施

美陆军战术部队组织通信联络时，有特定的组织与运用方法，在这次伊拉克战争中，也不例外。本文深入研究了美陆军战术通信的组织与运用方法；主要介绍了美陆军通信兵的战术编成，并详细说明了在战术行动中战斗网无线系统、地域通信网、陆军数据分发系统具体如何组织运用的，参加的单位等。所有这些对于指导我军通信现代化建设，培养适应未来高技术条件下薪型人才具有十分重要的参考意义。     

在C^4ISR中实现战术通信与定位报告系统

在现代高技术信息战中,定位导航与识别已战场感知力量的重要组成部分。本文简单介绍了美陆军的PLRS／EPLRS提出并具体分析了在C^4ISR中实现集成通信,导航与识别（ICNI）于一体的战术通信与定位报告系统。     

美国陆军作战指挥系统

自海湾战争以来的局部战争,信息作战改变并主导了现代战场。描述了美陆军作战指挥系统及其支援系统、通信系统的组成、基本功能和发展前景。     

—体化、网络化、全局覆差的美陆军防空反导武器装备

从冷战结束后的多次局部战争中可以看出,“一超独霸”的美国拥有绝对的制空权。美陆军尽管无需对此担心,却仍然重视发展野战防空反导武器装备,原因何在?首先,近年来战术弹道导弹和巡航导弹的扩散,使追求“零伤亡”的美陆军感到了在“异国他乡”作战时面临的威胁;再者,出于体系建设的考虑,各军兵种的防空力量都不能弱小,陆军也不例外。因此,美陆军近年来在发展野战防空反导武器方面可谓不遗余力。     

美陆军战术C^3系统的发展及其一体化

本文综述美陆军的战术Ｃ＾３系统的设计和发展,着重介绍“空地一体”作战理论中关于Ｃ＾３系统的内容、Ｃ＾３系统的结构和指挥与控制的战术通信保障。     

工业控制网络安全分析与对策

正工业控制网络指工业控制系统中的全数字化、双向、多站的通信系统,是工业控制系统(ICS)的重要组成部分。作为近年来发展形成的工业控制领域的网络技术,工业控制网络是计算机网络、通信技术与工业自动控制技术结合的产物。它适应了企业信息集成系统、     

美陆军分布式通用地面情报系统体系结构及作战运用

陆军分布式通用地面情报系统(DCGS-A)作为美陆军主要情报系统,在情报搜集、分析、分发、战场态势显示方面发挥了重要作用,于阿富汗战争和伊拉克战争中得到了检验。文章介绍了美陆军DCGS-A系统的主要功能、体系结构特点、基本作战运用方式以及实际运用中存在的问题,并展望了其发展前景。研究表明,随着美陆军的持续关注和密集投资,DCGS-A系统将不断发展完善,发挥更为重要的作用。     

基于SEA评估算子的军事通信网络效能仿真评估方法

针对作战人员对军事通信网络效能动态需求,建立基于仿真数据和用户需求的军事通信网络SEA模型;给出SEA方法在算子集成运行环境(OASIS)中的算子化设计和实现过程;通过使用SEA评估算子评估舰艇编队通信网络效能,证明应用SEA方法动态评估军事通信网络效能适用性和算子化SEA方法有效性,有利于SEA方法向通用化和规范化发展.     

美21世纪陆军太空与导弹防御

美陆军认为,太空是２１世纪重要的作战领域,并加紧研制和装备各种太空产品,以成倍地提高其战斗力。美陆军太空与导弹防御系统应运而生。借助该系统,地面战术部可以直接向众多卫星下达任务,获取实时情报,并将之分发整个战区。本文详尽叙述了负责发展该系统的各机构的职责,以及为使该系统满足地面战术系统的要求而举行的多次年会,讨论会和演习等方面的内容。     

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.     

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.