“斯特瑞克”旅的网络中心战能力

美国陆军于21世纪初开始组建"斯特瑞克"(Stryker)旅,主要有两个目的:一是使陆军拥有能在全球范围快速实施战略机动并连续72小时独立作战的中型部队,以弥补现有轻、重型部队作战能力的不足;二是作为试验部队,为未来信息化部队的建设积累经验。鉴于"斯特瑞克"部队的重要性,美陆军极为重视考察其作战能力特别是网络中心战能力,并寻求改进措施。为此,已建成的3个旅均被投入伊拉克战场,并在训练中心组织了大量对抗作战演习。     

美陆军战场信息系统发展的启示与思考

战场信息系统作为信息化战争条件下作战力量"倍增器",是构建未来陆军作战体系的核心和纽带。从未来战场信息系统的作战需求出发,分析了美陆军战场信息系统的迭代过程、各阶段主要特征及典型系统;探讨了美陆军战场信息系统的发展思路和途径,以期为我国陆军战场信息系统的顶层设计研究提供参考。     

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<正>美陆军发布《陆军部队结构转型》白皮书据美陆军网站2024年2月27日报道,美陆军公布《陆军部队结构转型》白皮书（以下简称“白皮书”）,旨在推进美陆军部队重组,缩减“空心”编队,使其职能重点从打击恐怖主义转向针对军事强国的大规模作战行动,特别是对抗大国军事力量。根据白皮书计划,美陆军将在未来十年进行重组,其中包括裁减约24000个岗位,相当于其兵力的5%,以应对未来日益复杂的作战环境中的挑战。     

美陆军成立网络电磁司令部

美陆军成立网络电磁司令部，统一负责陆军在全球范围内的信息网络领域作战，并直接向美军战略司令部下辖的网络电磁司令部负责。根据计划，陆军网络电磁司令部于2010年10月1日前具备完全运行能力。2009年10月1日，美陆军在空间与导弹防御司令部／战略司令部内组建了一个过渡性的陆军网络电磁司令部。     

美陆军精锐火力中心的建立与发展

为了与新的作战环境、美陆军转型相适应,为了解决火力部队所面临的现实问题,经过4年的多方努力,美陆军于2009年8月在俄克拉荷马州西尔堡建立了精锐火力中心。美陆军认为,这是统一行动(职能)的需要,是培养全能士兵与领导者的需要,是系统一体化与网络化的需要,是强化火力部队"生成力量"的需要,还能达成节约教育训练经费与设施等目的。该中心是美陆军火力部队的"生成力量",下设7处1室的参谋部、4大职能部、3所学校和1个野战炮兵旅。目前,该中心正在大力开展教学体制、网络中心、管理与监督、联合教学设施等方面的工作,旨在成为世界级的军兵种联合大学,从而更好地与利益相关者进行"啮合"与协作,为美陆军培养出具有灵敏性和适应能力的火力领导者和士兵,始终维持一支火力部队。一言以蔽之,精锐火力中心以"美陆军"为其属性、以"火力"为其立足点、以"全面"为其使命、以"合训"为其生长点、以"未来"为其生命线、以"世界级"为其归宿。     

美军作战实验室之三:陆军作战实验室 美国陆军跨入明天和后天的重要桥梁

作为美国三军中实施作战实验室计划最早、最积极的军种,美陆军极为重视陆军作战实验室的建设,并且自始至终都认为:作战实验室是陆军跨入明天和后天的重要桥梁。首先看看美国陆军     

美陆军面临50年来最重大的编制改革

2004年1月28日,美陆军参谋长斯库梅克上将向美国会众议院武装部队委员会提交了一份美陆军编制体制改革计划。这项全面的编制改革计划将动摇美陆军以师为基本作战单位的传统编制体制,代之以旅为基础的模块化编制体制,从而更好地满足当前和未来的作战需要。美陆军将其称为“50年来最重大的整编计划”或“陆军的模块化再设计”。     

美国陆军的“陆战网”

2004年2月,美国陆军正式将其网络命名为“陆战网”(LandW arN et),与海军“部队网”、空军“指挥与控制星座网”并列成为全球信息栅格(G IG)的军种子网。“陆战网”涵盖了美国陆军的现有网络、基础设施、通信系统和应用系统,为陆军信息的集成提供了平台。经由“陆战网”建立起的网络,不仅可将作战指令及时传达至各个作战单元,而且各作战单元可随时向上级报告战场态势,并与兄弟部队协同作战。其最终发展目标为:实现以网络为中心的和基于知识的部队;坚持以网络为中心的数据战略;支持并可嵌入联合作战空间通信系统———G IG的联合部队部分…     

协调建设“21世纪陆军“

美陆军一直在筹建一支称之为“２１世纪陆军”的未来部队,它以信息高技术为其主要特点,战斗力更强,杀伤威力也更大。它将通过３个途径来实现：（１）改编陆军机关和院校;（２）改编陆军战斗部队;（３）将信息时代技术运用到部队建设中去。同时,还将开展６种作战行动：（１）投送部队;（２）保护部队;（３）主宰信息;（４）调整作战空间;（５）遂行决战;（６）持续作战,并向其它作战行动过渡。文章重点阐述了其中的第３,     

对21世纪陆军机动攻击部队的试验

本文以美军每年一度的“草原勇士”演习为背景,详细地分析２１世纪陆军机动部队作战的特点及战场环境,描述美陆军为２１世纪战争而设计的这支部队的结构和能力,信息在作战中的重要地位和作用,以及部队的数字化和新式武器装备对部队作战能力和战场结构的影响。     

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).     

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.     

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.     

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.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.