US strategic preferences in the early twenty-first century

This article investigates how US national security planners have envisioned the emerging strategic environment during the early twenty-first century and evaluates how their perceptions of this strategic environment have changed during these years. This conceptual evolution can be seen in how defense planners define threats, identify defense priorities, and design security strategies. Five key strategic planning documents serve as the basis for this analysis and illustrate significant shifts in how the US government has envisioned its own security requirements as well as the context within which its strategic vision will need to be realized. These planning documents are: (1) Joint Vision 2020, (2) the Bush Administration's 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, (3) the Obama Administration's 2010 National Security Strategy, (4) US Strategic Defense Guidance entitled Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21^st Century Defense, and (5) the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Capstone Concept for Joint Operations: Joint Force 2020.     

媒体融合下的期刊特色发展与品牌战略

《国防科技》是国防科技大学主办的军队重点期刊。文章论述《国防科技》学术期刊服务国防和军队现代化建设的宗旨,及坚持技术与军事交叉融合的特色定位。数据分析近年来的《国防科技》期刊文献重点、热点及影响力指数,提出新形势下推动提升学术影响力、创一流刊发展新思路新战略。     

Brazil's new defense paradigm

In 2015, Brazil has taken steps toward re-consolidating its domestic defense industry. In the 1980s, Brazil built a dynamic and diversified defense industry. The state-driven effort resulted in a tripod strategy, where the state, state-run companies, and their private sector became the pillars of Brazil's defense industry. Brazil developed an export-driven defense industry; where close to 80–90% of its output was exported to Latin American, African, Arab, and Asian nations. In the 1980s, Brazil became the world's fifth largest exporter of defense products and services, exporting to over 40 countries. In the 1990s and 2000s, Brazil's defense industry suffered a dramatic reduction in size, diversification, and momentum. Successions of domestic political and economic policies have relegated Brazil's once emerging defense industry to a marginal position in the global defense industry. This article analyzes future prospects, challenges, and growth strategies for Brazil's defense industry.     

Strategic hedging in Indonesia’s defense diplomacy

With the rapid pace of regional arms modernization and unresolved territorial disputes, Indonesia is increasingly susceptible to the impact of emerging great power rivalry in Asia-Pacific. Rather than pursuing a robust military build-up, Indonesian policy-makers assert that diplomacy is the country’s first line of defense. This article argues that defense diplomacy serves two agenda of Indonesia’s hedging strategy – strategic engagement and military modernization. This way, Indonesian defense and security officials seek to moderate the impact of geopolitical changes while maintaining the country’s defensive ability against regional uncertainties.     

空天防御效能指标及其标准值的确定方法

空天领域的对抗决定了未来军事行动的进程和战争的胜败,空天威胁也已经成为各国国家军事安全的主要威胁。军事强国的全球打击系统、快速打击系统和弹道导弹的迅猛发展使得未来空天防御作战环境越来越复杂,也对空天防御作战提出了更高要求。空天防御是信息化空天时代的主要作战样式之一,是维护国家安全的重要屏障。本文提出了空天防御的充分性准则以及保证空天防御充分性的主要途径,分析了拟制空天防御力量行动方案的一般流程。文中所提出的空天防御效能指标以及确定和保证标准值指标的方法,能够从经济学视角较为合理、充分地构建和实施空天防御,对空天防御作战规划理论建议有一定参考价值,也能为发展空天防御作战规划系统提供研究思路和技术支撑。     

基于运输问题的国防动员任务规划模型研究

国防动员任务规划为执行动员保障任务提供明确的方案计划,是高效有序开展国防动员协同保障的重要前提和关键环节,既要综合考虑各类影响因素,又要确保对接结果适时、适量、适地、适度。本文分析了动员任务规划的现实问题,通过梳理实际开展动员任务规划的阶段步骤,明确了动员任务规划模型的研究内涵和边界;在此基础上,建立了国防动员任务规划的一般性模型,将动员任务规划问题的核心归结为运输问题,并对其与非平衡运输模型的等效性进行了分析;针对实际信息系统建设实践中动员任务规划的情况,提出了结合动员规模、保障规模、综合效益三类决策因子后的模型改进方案,并提出了相应的模型算法实现思路,对指导相关信息系统的建设具有重要的理论支撑价值。     

The failure of defense planning in European Post-Communist Defense Institutions: ascertaining causation and determining solutions

By any objective measure, defense institutions in Central and Eastern Europe have all but universally been incapable of producing viable defense plans that are based on objective costing and operational planning data. This situation exists in spite the provision of considerable Western advice and assistance, let alone reporting to and receiving assessments by NATO’s International Staff under Partnership for Peace, as well as via the integrated defense planning and reporting systems. An explanation for this systematic failure across European post-Communist defense institutions can be found in the continued slow development of an over-arching policy framework which directs and approves all activities of the armed forces, as well as the de-centralization of financial decision-making down to capability providers. The essay ends with an examination of the adverse effects of the early introduction of planning programming, budgeting system (PPBS), have had on the development of effective policy and planning capabilities within these defense institutions.     

An historical review of US defense strategy from Vietnam to operation Iraqi freedom

Facing nearly half a billion dollars in spending cuts over the next five years, US defense planners and strategists must simultaneously rebuild a war-weary Army weakened from over a decade of war, build new sea and air capabilities for the Pacific theater, and reduce manpower, procurement, and contractor budgets while promoting innovation. The US defense department is embarking on what may be the most sweeping period of defense transformation in recent memory. This article reviews the history of American defense transformation, focusing on an important but largely overlooked period of military innovation that began in the shadow of Vietnam and ended with troops fighting through blinding sandstorms at night on the road to Baghdad. The multifaceted transformation strategy conceived in the 1970s paved the way for a military revolution in the 1990s and enabled unprecedented battlefield adaptation in the 2000s. After reviewing the revolutionary changes that led to American dominance in conventional warfare in the 1990s, the article examines US transformation policies in the 2000s to inform defense strategy and planning efforts in the 2010s.     

野战防空C~3I与防空兵作战指挥控制

陆军防空兵自动化指挥系统已作为防空作战效能“倍增器”列入国家军装武器发展规划,并在近期可能交付防空部队使用。这一新装备、新技术的出现和发展必然会引起防空作战指挥的变化。在分析防空兵指挥自动化对防空作战指挥影响的基础上,对如何发挥防空兵自动化指挥的防空作战效能和防空兵指挥自动化需迫切解决的一些问题加以探讨。     

Challenges of institutional coordination in complex defense acquisition programs: the case of the Republic of Korea’s F-X program

Decision-making in defense acquisition programs in the Republic of Korea (ROK) has been problematic, especially in highly advanced complex systems. The highly disputed force modernization program for the ROK Air Force’s fifth-generation fighter, dubbed the Fighter eXperiment, went through extreme turbulence during the type selection phase. The gist of the turbulence became evident through poor institutional coordination within the defense acquisition authorities that eventually forced them to rescind the decision generated from their own yearlong efforts, thus basically shooting themselves on the foot. The paper highlights the background of the program and reviews the institutional elements that influenced the decision-making process, and conclude that the absence of an effective coordination mechanism has made decision-making in complex defense programs even more troublesome.     

ADVANCED US CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

The Obama administration has made a great effort to increase the role of advanced conventional weaponry in US national security thinking and practice, in part to help reinvigorate the global nuclear disarmament agenda by reducing the role played by nuclear weapons in the US defense posture. However, such a strategy is fundamentally flawed because increases in US conventional superiority will exacerbate US relative strength vis-à-vis other powers, and therefore make the prospect of a nuclear weapon-free world seem less attractive to Washington's current and potential nuclear rivals. Consequently, it is highly likely that the impact of efforts to increase US advanced conventional superiority through ballistic missile defense and a conventional “prompt global strike” program will ensure that the Obama administration is adopting a pathway to nuclear abolition on which it is the sole traveler for the foreseeable future.     

用于任务规划的航母编队防空威胁建模

建立正确的航母编队防空威胁模型是反航母任务规划成功的前提,在分析网络化条件下航母编队综合防空反导体系作战特点基础上,综合考虑反舰导弹性能、防空雷达网和编队防空火力威胁等因素,利用加权指数方法建立了网络化条件下航母编队综合防空网络威胁模型。仿真结果表明该模型能够体现航母网络化防空体系的真实情况,可以用于反航母任务规划。     

高超声速防空导弹结构防热技术展望

近年来,高超声速防空导弹成为各军事大国研究热门。高超声速防空导弹飞行速度马赫数超过5,因此如何准确确定气动加热环境和进行热防护设计,选择合适的防热结构方案,是研制高超声速防空导弹的重要关键技术。基于未来高超声速防空导弹可能面临的热环境,并结合目前国内外在热防护材料及热结构方面的发展状况,介绍几种适合未来高超声速防空导弹的防热设计方案。     

面向网络化防空反导体系的可组合建模框架

当前网络化防空反导体系的理论及其建模仿真工作还处于探索阶段,基于可组合建模框架的思想,设计了指控网、探测网和武器网三网交互的网络化防空反导体系结构概念图,开发了包括体系顶层框架、体系决策框架和数据链接口框架的可组合建模框架,通过单机突防舰队阵地混编群的仿真实验论证了所设计的建模框架的可组合性和合理性,为网络化防空反导体系的建模与效能仿真提供了有力支撑。     

要地防卫反无人机装备发展与启示

无人机技术的发展及其在现代战场的广泛应用，给机场、阵地、营地、指挥所等要地的防空体系带来新的挑战。以俄罗斯铠甲武器系统为首的弹炮结合末段防空系统代表了要地防卫装备的重要发展方向。本文从无人机技术发展对要地防空系统的新威胁出发，探讨传统防空武器系统在执行要地防卫过程中应对低、慢、小无人机目标可能存在的技术问题，并对比分析了监测控制类、直接摧毁类和干扰反制类等典型反无人机技术的特点，然后针对俄罗斯“铠甲”弹炮结合武器系统发展的过程、反无人机作战案例及其在要地防卫作战中的应用特点等进行深入探讨，最后针对要地防卫反无人机装备的发展提出若干建议。研究结果可为开展要地防卫反无人机装备的体系规划和发展论证提供参考。     

美国GMD系统成熟度评估研究

美国地基中段防御(GMD)系统虽然于2004年底完成了初始部署,但是目前仍然没有完全移交给军方,而由美国导弹防御局负责管理和维护.通过对GMD系统进行成熟度评估,得出其发展状态仍然处于系统发展和验证阶段.     

US–Latin America’s security: moving through an inflection point?

Recent elections in Latin America, such as those of Mauricio Macri in Argentina, Horacio Cartes in Paraguay, and the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, point to a new direction in Latin American politics and away from the “hard left;” they also point to a new momentum in the security relationship between the US and Latin American countries. Former US President Obama’s 2016 trip to Cuba and Argentina was a clear demonstration of this new security paradigm and also a clear indication that there is a new momentum brewing in the US towards a rethinking and reshaping of security strategies and mindsets. This article will explore the multidimensional security relationship between the US and Latin American countries in light of recent changes in the US’ posture toward the region.     

区域反导指控系统一体化研究

不断发展的TBM突防技术呈现了许多新特点,对防空反导系统的指挥控制能力提出了更高的要求.必须从对TBM的感知、识别、预报、威胁判断、目标分配、火力拦截和效能评估等诸多控制环节进行一体化设计,而信息网络技术的发展又为联合一体化指控这一必然选择提供了可能,通过高速数据链将各个作战平台连接成为无缝战场态势,从而形成一体化的扁平作战体系.通过研究国内外指控系统的发展现状,给出了我军的一体化指控系统的发展建议.     

EDITOR'S NOTE

This article offers a survey of risks that might arise for strategic stability (defined as a situation with a low probability of major-power war) with the reduction of US and Russian nuclear arsenals to “low numbers” (defined as 1,000 or fewer nuclear weapons on each side). These risks might include US anti-cities targeting strategies that are harmful to the credibility of extended deterrence; renewed European anxiety about a US-Russian condominium; greater vulnerability to Russian noncompliance with agreed obligations; incentives to adopt destabilizing “launch-on-warning” strategies; a potential stimulus to nuclear proliferation; perceptions of a US disengagement from extended deterrence; increased likelihood of non-nuclear arms competitions and conflicts; and controversial pressures on the UK and French nuclear forces. Observers in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) states who consider such risks significant have cited four possible measures that might help to contain them: sustained basing of US nonstrategic nuclear weapons in Europe; maintaining a balanced US strategic nuclear force posture; high-readiness means to reconstitute US nuclear forces; and enhanced US and allied non-nuclear military capabilities. These concrete measures might complement the consultations with the NATO allies that the United States would in all likelihood seek with respect to such important adjustments in its deterrence and defense posture.     

装备预研管理数字化转型研究——数字孪生装备预研

数字经济时代,装备预研管理应积极面对数字化转型趋势,构建与数字经济发展相适应的管理体系。结合数字经济的变革属性,借鉴民口科技计划管理数字化实践经验做法,总结和分析当前装备预研管理数字化面临的主要问题及紧迫需求,提出未来装备预研管理发展的一种新范式——数字孪生装备预研,即利用数字孪生助力装备预研管理的数字化转型,并从组成、理想特征和能力、关键技术以及发展路径四个方面对数字孪生装备预研的概念内涵进行了深化阐述,以期对当前装备预研管理的创新起到参考和促进作用。