2004年第13届希腊国际军事防务展览会观感

2004年10月5-9日,第13届希腊国际军事防务展览会在希腊首都雅典举行。希腊国际军事防务展览会由希腊国防部赞助,希腊工业展览研究院主办,每两年举办一次。作为世界军事防务领域的盛会,希腊国际军事防务展为参展的国际军工生产商提供了展示最新军事科研产品的场所,为前来参观的各国客商提供了专业技术交流与贸易洽谈的良机。希腊国际军事防务展之所以能成为当今世界上有影响力的展览会之一,正是在于其位于地中海的特殊地理环境及重要的军事战略位置,历来受到世界各国的关注。规模宏大,展品齐全此届希腊国际军事防务展,有来自世界各地的500多…     

军用无线传感器网络体系结构研究

无线传感器网络作为一种全新的监测系统被广泛认为是军用侦查探测系统的发展方向,已经成为国际军事领域研究热点。在总结了几种无线传感器网络体系结构的基础上,针对军用领域特定的性能需求,对这些体系结构进行了比较。     

《装备学院学报》征稿简则

正《装备学院学报》是由装备学院主管、装备学院科研部主办的,研究军事装备、军事航天、军事信息等学科领域理论与技术问题的综合性学术期刊。1990年创刊,双月刊,国内外公开发行,全军首批军事学核心期刊,中国科技核心期刊,RCCSE中国核心学术期刊。1征稿范围主要刊登军事装备学,军事航天及军事信息领域的学术论文;在上述学科或领域的科研实践中有发展并能反映当前     

《装备学院学报》征稿简则

正《装备学院学报》是由装备学院主管、装备学院科研部主办的,研究军事装备、军事航天、军事信息等学科领域理论与技术问题的综合性学术期刊。1990年创刊,双月刊,国内外公开发行,全军首批军事学核心期刊,中国科技核心期刊,RCCSE中国核心学术期刊。1征稿范围主要刊登军事装备学,军事航天及军事信息领域的学术论文;在上述学科或领域的科研实践中有发展并能反映当前     

《装备学院学报》征稿简则

<正>《装备学院学报》是由总装备部装备学院主管、装备学院科研部主办的,研究军事装备、军事航天、军事信息等学科领域理论与技术问题的综合性学术期刊。1990年创刊,双月刊,国内外公开发行,全军首批军事学核心期刊,中国科技核心期刊,RCCSE中国核心学术期刊。1征稿范围主要刊登军事装备学,军事航天及军事信息领域的学术论文;在上述学科或领域的科研实践中有发展并能反映当前     

第13届希腊国际军事防务展览会观感

2004年10月5—9日,第13届希腊国际军事防务展览会在希腊首都雅典举行。希腊国际军事防务展览会由希腊国防部赞助,希腊工业展览研究院主办,每两年举办一次。作为世界军事防务领域的盛会,希腊国际军事防务展为参展的国际军工生产商提供了展示最新军事科研产品的场所,     

《装备学院学报》征稿简则

<正>《装备学院学报》是由总装备部装备学院主管、装备学院科研部主办的,研究军事装备、军事航天、军事信息等学科领域理论与技术问题的综合性学术期刊。1990年创刊,双月刊,国内外公开发行,全军首批军事学核心期刊,中国科技核心期刊,RCCSE中国核心学术期刊。1征稿范围主要刊登军事装备学,军事航天及军事信息领域的学术论文;在上述学科或领域的科研实践中有发展并能反映当前先进水平的技术报告或阶段性研究报告,具有探索性、导向性的新方法、新理论及系统性研究综述等文章。     

《装备学院学报》征稿简则

正《装备学院学报》是由装备学院主管、装备学院科研部主办的,研究军事装备、军事航天、军事信息等学科领域理论与技术问题的综合性学术期刊。1990年创刊,双月刊,国内外公开发行,全军首批军事学核心期刊,中国科技核心期刊,RCCSE中国核心学术期刊。1征稿范围主要刊登军事装备学,军事航天及军事信息领域的学术论文;在上述学科或领域的科研实践中有发展并能反映当前先进水平的技术报告或阶段性研究报告,具有探索性、导向性的新方法、新理论及系统性研究综述等文章。     

《装备学院学报》征稿简则

正《装备学院学报》是由装备学院主管、装备学院科研部主办的,研究军事装备、军事航天、军事信息等学科领域理论与技术问题的综合性学术期刊。1990年创刊,双月刊,国内外公开发行,全军首批军事学核心期刊,中国科技核心期刊,RCCSE中国核心学术期刊。1征稿范围主要刊登军事装备学,军事航天及军事信息领域的学术论文;在上述学科或领域的科研实践中有发展并能反映当前先进水平的技术报告或阶段性研究报告,具有探索性、导向性的新方法、新理论及系统性研究综述等文章。2投稿约定     

《装备学院学报》征稿简则

<正>《装备学院学报》是由总装备部装备学院主管、装备学院科研部主办的,研究军事装备、军事航天、军事信息等学科领域理论与技术问题的综合性学术期刊。1990年创刊,双月刊,国内外公开发行,全军首批军事学核心期刊,中国科技核心期刊,RCCSE中国核心学术期刊。1征稿范围主要刊登军事装备学,军事航天及军事信息领域的学术论文;在上述学科或领域的科研实践中有发展并能反映当前先进水平的技术报告或阶段性研究报告,具有探索性、导向性的新方法、新理论及系统性研究综述等文章。     

Drones,spies, terrorists,and second-class citizenship in Pakistan

This essay reviews seven recent books and reports that focus upon the use of US armed drones in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This essay synthesizes a historical account of the program, critically interrogates key arguments and evidence advanced by the authors, and draws attention the particular problems that confront those who live in the FATA and the second-class citizenship that the Pakistani state has bestowed upon them for reasons of domestic and foreign policy concerns. This review essay does not intend to be the final word on any of the ongoing policy debates. But it does hope to enable a wider audience to take part in these important deliberations.     

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).     

Mediation in Syria: initiatives,strategies, and obstacles, 2011–2016

This article investigates mediation efforts in Syria from the outbreak of the civil war in 2011 through the spring of 2016. It describes the principal initiatives, analyses differences and similarities across mediators, and identifies strategic obstacles that prevented substantive progress. Focusing on mediation initiatives undertaken by the Arab League and the United Nations, it finds that there is considerable path dependence across efforts and that most of the limited achievements, notably ceasefires in 2012 and 2016, resulted from the application of external leverage. Settlement in Syria was conditioned on overcoming significant commitment problems, aggravated by sectarian mistrust, the fractured nature of the opposition, and international disunity. The article contributes the first review of mediation in Syria that comprehends the conflict in its entirety, systematizes data for research on conflict management, and evaluates existing mediation policy in Syria with an eye to the future.     

Power-sharing,commitment problems,and armed conflict in Ukraine

Why did the Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution initiate a peaceful democratic transition, while the 2014 protests were followed by violent conflict? This article complements previous studies on Russia’s role in Ukraine by focusing on domestic explanations of the recent violence. It shows that structural factors were already conducive to violence in 2004, making it fruitful to analyse the role of agency to explain the 2014 conflict. It demonstrates that while the 2004 transition introduced power-sharing guarantees that mitigated commitment problems for the relevant parties, the 2014 transition saw no such guarantees, making violence a rational strategy for the pro-Russian separatists.     

Chemical-weapon use in Syria: atrocities,attribution, and accountability

ABSTRACT

International efforts to hold the government of President Bashar al-Assad accountable for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War have entered a new phase. For the first time, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the international organization responsible for implementing the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, has been empowered to identify the perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria. The Investigation and Identification Team (IIT), which was formed to conduct the OPCW’s new attribution mission, has announced its intention to investigate and identify the perpetrators of nine chemical attacks in Syria, including the April 7, 2018, attack in Douma. This article reviews recent efforts to attribute chemical attacks in Syria, describes what we know about the nine incidents to be investigated, summarizes what is known about the Syrian government officials, military commanders, and chemical-warfare scientists suspected of being responsible for these attacks, discusses what to expect during the next phase of the attribution process, and offers insights into how the international community can move beyond attribution to accountability. Accountability is necessary to provide justice for victims and to prevent future incidents by demonstrating that perpetrators of chemical attacks will be identified and punished.     

Resilience in peacebuilding: Contesting uncertainty,ambiguity, and complexity

With the failure of liberal peace strategies in the Global South, resilience has recently become the risk management strategy par excellence in peacebuilding. Since it is not possible to predict when the next crisis will take place, peacebuilders must invest in bottom-up adaptive capacities to cope with external shocks. This article moves away from governmentality accounts of resilience which are overtly deterministic and depoliticizing. Instead, it posits that the uncertainty, ambiguity, and complexity associated with resilience mean that we should expect opportunities for contestation and institutional agency. This argument will be illustrated by drawing upon the European Union’s adoption of the resilience approach in its peacebuilding and security policies. The article argues that while uncertainty, ambiguity, and complexity constitute the ontological conditions that underpin the rise of resilience in peacebuilding, they are also likely to lead to its potential demise.     

Optimal path finding in direction,location, and time dependent environments

This article examines optimal path finding problems where cost function and constraints are direction, location, and time dependent. Recent advancements in sensor and data‐processing technology facilitate the collection of detailed real‐time information about the environment surrounding a ground vehicle, an airplane, or a naval vessel. We present a navigation model that makes use of such information. We relax a number of assumptions from existing literature on path‐finding problems and create an accurate, yet tractable, model suitable for implementation for a large class of problems. We present a dynamic programming model which integrates our earlier results for direction‐dependent, time and space homogeneous environment, and consequently, improves its accuracy, efficiency, and run‐time. The proposed path finding model also addresses limited information about the surrounding environment, control‐feasibility of the considered paths, such as sharpest feasible turns a vehicle can make, and computational demands of a time‐dependent environment. To demonstrate the applicability and performance of our path‐finding algorithm, computational experiments for a short‐range ship routing in dynamic wave‐field problem are presented. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

Deterring the Undeterrable: Coercion,Denial, and Delegitimization in Counterterrorism

This article argues that deterrence theory can be applied to counterterrorism. Doing so requires broadening the traditional concept of deterrence by punishment, expanding deterrence by denial to include defense, mitigation, and strategic hindrance, and developing deterrence by delegitimization to influence the political, ideological, and religious rationales informing terrorist behavior. In practice, deterring terrorism requires tailoring threats against state and individual facilitators, diffusing the intended consequences of terrorism, and manipulating terrorist self–restraints. When these and other deterrent leverages are applied simultaneously against various actors and processes involved in terrorism, coercion can be achieved.     

Yield randomness,cost tradeoffs,and diversification in the EOQ model

Existing production/inventory models with random (variable) yield take the yield distribution as given. This work takes a step towards selecting the optimal yield randomness, jointly with lot sizing decisions. First, we analyze an EOQ model where yield variance and lot size are to be selected simultaneously. Two different cost structures are considered. Secondly, we consider source diversification (‘second sourcing’) as a means of reducing effective yield randomness, and trade its benefits against its costs. Conditions for the superiority of diversification between two sources with distinct yield distributions over a single source are derived. The optimal number of identical sources is also analyzed. Some comments on the congruence of the results with recent JIT practices are provided.