灭火救援计算机模拟训练系统研究

从消防训练的角度入手,说明了建立灭火救援计算机模拟训练系统的必要性,通过与传统训练方式进行对比,介绍了灭火救援计算机模拟训练系统的特点,给出了基于GIS的灭火救援计算机模拟训练系统的框架、功能和特点;并在分析灭火救援计算机模拟系统缺陷的基础上,有针对性地提出了三级模拟训练体系,为消防训练提出了一个新的训练模式。     

在西部地区构建地级市灭火与应急救援战区的设想

借鉴解放军作战战区的概念,在西部经济欠发达地区的地级市建立起灭火和应急救援战区,可以有效地利用各类资源,整合各种力量,从而提升消防部队应对突发灾害事故的能力.以遵义市为行政区划,探索在欠发达地区地级市构建灭火与应急救援战区的必要性和可行性,以及由此带来的消防部队遂行灭火和应急救援任务时的各种优势.     

消防官兵灭火救援伤亡事故原因及对策探讨

在我国经济高速发展,城市化、工业化和商业化程度不断加快的同时,公安消防部队所面临的灭火与应急救援任务不断增加,危险性不断增强,在灭火救援行动中官兵的人身安全问题愈加重要。阐述了目前公安消防部队灭火及应急救援行动现状,通过统计分析近10年来消防官兵伤亡事故情况,剖析了灭火救援行动中存在的问题,提出了减少灭火与应急救援行动中消防官兵伤亡事故的对策,为消防部队加强灭火救援行动安全工作提供借鉴。     

地铁火灾灭火战斗原则探讨

从地铁火灾特点及地铁灭火救援战斗规律入手，探讨了消防部队参加地铁火灾救援的战斗原则及这些原则的运用，供消防部队进行地铁火灾灭火救援时参考。     

谈灭火救援工作中网络舆情事件的应对

突发的各类网络舆情事件对当前消防工作影响很大,有的甚至影响到了消防部队的形象.对网络上出现的消防灭火救援舆情事件的现状及特点进行分析,结合当前消防部队在舆情控制方面存在的问题,提出了具体有效的应对措施.     

消防部队灭火救援中产生法律纠纷的原因及对策

消防部队在灭火救援过程中不可避免地与遇险当事人产生矛盾和法律纠纷。通过几起典型案例,分析了消防部队在灭火救援中与遇险当事人产生纠纷的原因,提出了避免法律纠纷的改进措施。     

建立新型消防勤务机制探索

随着经济社会的快速发展,消防部队的职能也正在由过去的单一灭火向多元化灭火救援发展,这就给消防勤务工作提出了研究的新课题,揭示了目前消防部队在勤务机制中遇到的警力严重不足、灭火救援骨干队伍薄弱、灭火救援训练效率不高、适应现代灭火救援作战的观念意识不强等突出问题,论证了消防勤务机制改革势在必行,并提出了应采取的四个方面的改革措施。     

论消防部队灭火救援中法律责任的规避

消防部队在灭火救援过程中不可避免地会与遇险当事人产生矛盾和冲突，分析了消防部队在灭火救援中与遇险当事人产生纠纷的原因及表现，提出了缓解矛盾和纠纷，避免事态恶化的方法。     

注册登记管理民用灭火救援装备的探讨

阐述了民用设备用于消防灭火救援的使用现状和存在的主要问题,从使用民用设备被动管理分析了存在这些问题的主要原因,并采取提高调集能力、参战队员的救援素质、民用设备的使用率、注册登记的基础建设、互相制约机制等对策加强依法注册登记管理民用设备,拓宽灭火救援装备来源,解决灭火救援装备短缺的问题,调动全社会力量更好地完成消防部队担负的各项灭火救援任务。     

当前消防部队灭火救援工作存在问题及解决对策

近年来,全国消防部队开展了轰轰烈烈的执勤岗位大练兵工作,灭火救援一线官兵素质普遍得到提高,然而,随着社会的发展,兵员结构的变化和兵役制度的改革,消防部队在参加灭火救援工作还存在一些问题。分析了当前消防部队参加灭火救援工作存在的问题,并提出了相应解决对策。     

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.