建强边海防民兵队伍的三点思考

在今年召开的第五次全国边海防工作会议上,提出国家边海防战略目标是要＂建成与国家地位相称的强大、稳固的边海防＂＂为国家崛起和民族复兴提供坚实保障＂。中央军委主席习近平在会上强调指出,要强化忧患意识、使命意识、大局意识,努力建设强大稳固的现代边海防。这次会议和习主席的重要指示,为新时期加强边海防建设指明了方向,提供了遵循。会议指出的要＂完善专业精干的力量结构＂＂加强边海防民兵建设,开展专业化训练,提高边海防后备力量建设质量＂,为加强边海防地区后备力量建设明确了目标,找到了抓手。边（海）疆省、市在加强边海防建设过程中,要注重建强边海防民兵队伍,积极探索后备力量质量建设有效途径,努力搭建平台练兵用兵,为实现国家边海防战略目标贡献力量。实践过程中,应注意把握以下三个方面。     

以十七大精神指导边海防建设的几个问题

党的十七大报告对在新的历史起点上开创国防和军队建设新局面作出了全面部署.边海防建设是国防建设的前沿地带,关系国家主权和领土完整,关系边海防安全稳定,关系国家的改革开放和经济社会发展.我们必须坚持以十七大精神为指导,不断解放思想,理清思路,改革创新,努力推进边海防建设又好又快发展.     

新形势下我国海防体系建设的几点思考

国务委员兼国防部长梁光烈在国家第四次边海防工作会议上明确提出,着力推进边海防体系建设,着重建好防卫管控力量体系、武器装备体系、基础设施体系和人才队伍体系,努力实现建设统一、高效、稳固、信息化边海防的总目标。如何建设新形势下具有中国特色的海防体系是未来国防建设的重要课题。     

浅谈加强边境军警民联训联防

边海防地区是国家安全稳定的重要屏障,边海防地区的安全稳定是国家改革开放和全面建设小康社会的基本保障。新形势下,要着眼筑牢我边海防地区坚固长城,大力加强边海防地     

略论新形势下我国边海防安全战略目标的确立

边海防安全战略目标,是国家层面边海防安全战略指导的重要组成部分,是引领国家边海防建设的总牵引.边海防安全战略目标的确立,必须站在战略全局的高度,服从服务于国家总体战略目标,遵循国家周边外交基本方针,与积极防御的军事战略方针相一致.     

确保边海防安全稳定须着力统筹好五个关系

边海防是国防的重要领域和有机组成部分.新的历史时期强边固防,就必须坚持以习近平主席关于边海防建设发展的战略思想为指导,统筹处理好边海防建设中御外与安内、斗争与睦邻、严管与开放、兴边与强边、继承与创新的关系.     

加强新形势下边海防建设的几点思考

近年来,随着我国周边国家安全环境的不断变化,以及我国改革开放经济快速增长,国家边海防建设遇到了许多新情况、新问题,既面临着严峻的现实挑战,也带来了难得的发展机遇。科学制定边海防建设方针,大力加强新形势下边海防建设,准确把握发展机遇,对于新时期维护国家的主权及海洋权益具有重要意义。     

关于加强新时期边海防建设的思考

加强边海防建设,是任何一个主权国家安邦定国的一项重要战略措施。在新中国成立后的各个历史时期,我们国家都以极大的注意力关注国际形势和周边形势的变化,适时提出了一系列加强边海防建设的重     

关于新时代智慧管边控边的理性思考

智慧管边控边是建设强大稳固现代边海防的重要内容，也是新时代边防建设、边防管控、边防斗争的现实课题。文章重点分析智慧管边控边中人的主导性因素，探索智能化装备体系的关键技术，提出人与武器有机结合的管边控边行动方式，通过 “ 人有智慧、技术智能、行动智谋”的衔接支撑，初步构设针对性强且具有实用性的智慧边防体系。     

习近平关于边海防战略重要论述研探

党的十八大以来,习近平主席着眼实现中华民族伟大复兴的"中国梦",积极推动边海防全面发展,提出努力建设强大稳固的现代边海防,周密组织边境管控和海上维权行动,贯彻总体国家安全观、坚持陆海统筹、坚持军民合力共建边海防,坚持把国家主权和安全放在第一位,强化忧患意识、使命意识、大局意识,坚持发扬改革创新精神等重要思想,谱写了党的边海防战略思想的新篇章.     

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.     

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).     

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。     

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.     

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.     

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.