军事信息系统的互操作性研究*

为了正确理解和准确评测军事信息系统的互操作性,分析比较了军事信息系统互操作性的不同定义和内涵,讨论了军事信息系统的互操作性分析方法,探讨了军事信息系统互操作性建模方法,分析了互操作性与系统安全脆弱性之间的关系,给出了军事信息系统互操作性研究的几点建议.     

美军信息系统互操作性研究

解释了军事信息系统互操作性的内涵,对美军信息系统互操作性研究现状如信息系统互操作性等级模型、美国国防部体系结构框架及国防信息基础设施总体规划等进行了详细阐述。进一步分析了美军发展军事信息系统互操作性的内容,为实现我军各信息系统的互操作性提供参考。     

C~4ISR系统的互操作性试验与评价

C4ISR系统的试验与评价主要包括系统兼容性、互操作性和集成性,其中互操作性试验与评价是核心内容,对C4ISR系统满足以网络为中心的联合作战需求至关重要。文章首先介绍了对C4ISR系统进行互操作性试验的先进可组合环境(ACE),然后研究了互操作性的等级划分,给出了互操作性等级参考模型,最后研究了互操作性评价过程和评价工具。     

C^3I/M＆S互操作性研究

结合C^3I/M＆S互操作性的主要问题,总结了互操作性技术参考模型,在此基础上对C^3I/M＆S互操作性的数据模型及标准、接口标准进行了详细论述,介绍了北约C^3I/SIM互操作性试验情况,并指出了未来C^3I/M＆S互操作性研究的发展趋势,对军队C^3I系统和仿真系统的建设有一定的指导意义。     

C3I/M&S互操作性研究

结合C3I/M&S互操作性的主要问题,总结了互操作性技术参考模型,在此基础上对C3I/M&S互操作性的数据模型及标准、接口标准进行了详细论述,介绍了北约C3I/SIM互操作性试验情况,并指出了未来C3I/M&S互操作性研究的发展趋势,对军队C3I系统和仿真系统的建设有一定的指导意义.     

网络化维修信息系统互操作性等级评估

网络化维修保障中信息交互平台缺乏对互操作性优劣的评估方法,互操作性评估难。在网络化维修这一特定领域,互操作性是获取信息的基础。明确了网络化维修的互操作内涵,针对维修信息系统的特点,搭建网络化维修互操作平台所需的网络支撑,研究适用的互操作性评估模型和指标体系,构建了维修信息系统的互操作性等级评估模型,对维修保障信息系统建设具有指导意义。     

美军信息系统互操作性测试、验证与评估研究

军事信息系统互操作性是信息化联合作战夺取战场主动权的关键,是武器装备体系综合评估研究的重点之一。通过研究美军信息系统联合互操作性测试、验证的机制与流程,提出了适用于我军的基于就绪网络关键性能参数的信息系统,介绍了美军信息系统互操作性等级(LISI)评估方法与模型,为提高我军信息系统互操作水平提供有意义的参考。     

支持部队模拟训练的指控与仿真系统互操作性语言

部队指控系统的广泛应用对指控训练提出更高要求.仿真系统开始越来越多地应用于训练中,为之提供真实的指控训练环境.部队模拟训练系统中实装指控系统与基于仿真的训练支撑环境的互操作性问题是一个急待解决的问题.互操作性概念参考模型用于确认两者间交互的信息类型,是互操作性研究的基础.模拟训练系统中互操作性研究的重点集中在指控与仿真系统互操作性语言的研究上,主要体现在公共数据模型、形式化语法和形式化语义3个方面.     

实现C3I系统互操作性的体系结构

指出了互操作性是现代战争对C3I系统的基本要求,体系结构是保障所开发的C3I系统满足军事需求的机制.着重论述了为实现C3I系统的互操作性,在开发体系结构时所应遵循的指导原则.     

【专题】无人系统互操作性发展现状与关键问题

无人系统正在加速由专用化、单一化向通用化、标准化发展,多无人系统协同、无人-有人系统协同、无人系统集群等新型作战概念不断成熟。无人系统互操作性是提高无人系统联合作战能力的倍增器和推动无人系统系列化发展的重要抓手,也是适应无人系统协同化、集群化发展的必然需求。本文详细阐述了无人系统互操作性的概念内涵,从顶层规划、技术创新和能力验证三个方面分析了无人系统互操作性发展现状,提出了一种针对跨域、多域无人系统互操作的等级模型,构建了自底向上和自顶向下相结合的互操作性关键支撑技术体系,剖析了通用/开放体系架构、标准协议与模块化组件、自主能力评估验证、数据传输与数据策略等技术因素,并展望了下一步研究重点。     

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.     

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。     

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).     

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.     

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.