微言快语

@微观察:宽容是一种气度,是一种胸襟,是一种修养。人世纷纭复杂,坎坷曲折。人生是一种艰难跋涉。金无足赤,人无完人,何况我们这些芸芸众生,凡夫俗子。@余秋雨:成熟是一种明亮而不刺目的光辉,一种圆润而不腻耳的音乐,一种不再需要对别人察言观色的从容,一种终于停止向四周申诉求告的大气,一种不理会喧闹的微笑,一种洗刷     

书法家炽情创作状态刍议

炽情创作状态是书法家追求艺术高境界的一种心理体验,是一种突然的颖悟,是一种表现的激情,是一种审美的愉悦,是一种“如痴如醉”的精神状态。     

倾听的魅力

心理学家认为,倾听是一种对他人情感、语言表达的反应方式和增强对他人情感、心理体验的理解手段,可以帮助人了解他人的内心世界,使人与人之间形成良好的互动关系。倾听是一种修养、一种责任、一种能力,     

超脱

超脱是一种心态,一种精神,一种拿得起放得下的豁达,是对人生的一种透彻理解和感悟。超脱是一种风度,一种胸襟,一种大度,一种精神的解放和生活的坦然。人超脱一点,就能看透事物的现象抓住本质,能屈能伸,放得开收得拢,不去做无聊的内讧,不去做庸俗的计较。     

浅谈变换方法在中学数学解题中的运用

1.引言 变换方法是一种特殊的化归方法,是一种常用的数学方法,它是"问题解决"的一种重要手段和方法.     

最是担当能致远

担当是共产党人的一种使命、一种责任、一种能力、一种境界。履行担当的义务,就要履行自己的职责;忠诚担当的信念,就要忠诚肩负的使命;执着担当的道义,就要执着当前的事业。“大事难事看担当,顺境逆境看襟度”。可以说,担当两个字,一篇大文章。     

创建学习型组织 打造高素质人才队伍

学习是一种修养、一种觉悟、一种境界,要营造一个“时时有学习之机,处处为学习之所”的环境,通过创建学习型组织,提高员工素质,促进企业发展。     

追寻“零公里”精神的印迹

在新疆,我们始终被一种叫"零公里"的精神震撼着、鼓舞着并感动着。"零公里"作为一种标志就是从零开始,作为一种精神就是自强不息,作为一种境界就是虚怀若谷。在我们眼里,新疆叶城"零公里"已不再是单一的地理标识,而是一种文化符号和精神追求。8月15日,解放军生活杂志社"送文化到边关"活动慰问团一行10人,从北京飞抵乌鲁木齐,早已等候在机场的武     

要善于学习运用官兵语言

我们写文章、作报告归根结底是给广大官兵看的、听的。能否恰如其分地运用官兵语言,是一种方法、一种态度,吏是一种情感、一种作风？那些充斥着大话、空话、套话的“官腔官调”,或者故弄玄虚、晦涩难懂的呆板词句,     

让学习成为一种习惯

提倡学习并不是单纯地指学知识,学习更是一种工作责任、一种生活态度、一种精神追求。学习应成为人生的第一需要、工作的第一动力、提高素质的第一手段。我们应自觉做到快乐学习、轻松学习、享受学习,切实让学习成为一种习惯,成为生命的一部分。     

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.     

Country survey XVI the defence sector in the economy of a declining superpower: Soviet Union and Russia, 1965-2001

The Soviet Union was able to develop a large military-industrial complex and become the world's second superpower despite deficiencies in its centrally planned economy because defence was given high priority status and special planning, rationing and administrative mechanisms were used to attain national security objectives. However, in the period 1976-85 the effectiveness of priority protection diminished and defence institutions experienced more of the problems typical of the shortage economic system. The heavy defence burden also created growing difficulties for the civilian economy. The attempts by the Gorbachev government to reform the defence sector and improve defence-economic relationships during perestroika (1985-91) uniformly failed. For most of the transition period, the Russian military-industrial complex has been adversely affected by its low priority status, cuts in defence spending, instability of the hybrid politico-economic system, and negative growth of the economy. The armed forces and defence industry have been reduced in size and their outputs of military services and equipment have fallen to low levels. Nevertheless, the Russian armed forces still have over one million troops, significant stocks of sophisticated conventional weapons, and a large nuclear arsenal. The government of President Putin has raised the priority of the defence sector, increased real defence spending, and adopted ambitious plans to revive Russian military power. It is likely, though, that tight resource constraints will hamper efforts to reform the armed forces and to upgrade weapons. By 2010 Russia will be an important, but not dominant, military power in Eurasia.     

Traffickers,terrorists, and a ‘new security challenge’: Russian counternarcotics strategy and the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade

The collapse of the Soviet Union precipitated the massive expansion of drug use and trade in Russia. The country now has one of the largest populations of injecting drug users in the world and has become the largest single-country market for Afghan heroin. In 2003 the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade was created to coordinate a comprehensive counternarcotics strategy appropriate to the scale of this threat. The service continues to face a number of challenges in its early stages of development. However, it has made considerable advances in improving responses to large-scale organised crime and in building international cooperation.