基于Vague集的TOPSIS法求解目标优先级

针对传感器管理中目标—传感器配对出现的目标优先级求解问题,提出了一种基于Vague集的TOPSIS计算方法。在分析目标优先级的主要影响因素基础上,定义了各影响因素的影响系数。同时结合Vague集的TOPSIS法给出了目标优先级的计算步骤,为目标优先级求解提供了一种新途径。并结合仿真算例表明该方法的合理性与有效性。     

基于Vague集的防空武器系统机动能力评估技术

针对已有评估方法存在的不足,提出一种基于Vague集的防空武器系统机动能力评估新方法。分析了影响防空武器系统机动能力评估的指标因素,给出了各评价指标的模糊值表示及指标权重的计算方法,该方法能有效避免传统的专家打分法造成的主观偏差。在此基础上,建立了基于Vague集的防空武器系统机动能力综合评价模型,给出了评价其优劣的排序方法。最后通过实例分析验证,该方法评估结果准确,对指挥员科学决策具有一定的参考价值。     

基于Vague集投影及距离的空中目标威胁评估方法

针对已有空中目标威胁评估方法存在的不足,提出一种基于Vague集投影及距离的威胁评估新方法。分析并确定了空中目标威胁因素中的评估指标,给出了评价指标的Vague值表示方法。在此基础上,应用Vague集投影及距离的多属性模糊决策理论,建立了空中目标威胁评估的数学模型,给出了目标威胁的排序方法。最后通过实例分析验证,该方法评估结果准确,对指挥员科学决策具有一定的参考价值。     

基于Vague集模糊值线性序法的雷达抗干扰效能评估

针对已有评估方法存在的不足,提出了一种基于Vague集模糊值线性序法的雷达抗干扰效能评估方法。分析了影响雷达抗干扰效能的指标因素,给出了各评价指标的模糊值表示,建立了基于Vague集模糊值线性序法的雷达抗干扰效能综合评价模型,得到了评价其效能的排序方法。最后通过实例分析验证,该方法评估结果准确,具有一定参考价值。     

基于Vague集ELINT系统的效能评估算法

为了解决指标取值不确定情况下ELINT系统效能评估问题,提出了基于Vague集的ELINT系统效能模糊评估算法.结合ELINT系统工作原理,梳理出评估指标,建立评估指标体系;将Vague集理论与ELINT系统相结合,通过计算待测系统Vague集和期望Vague集的相似度,利用综合决策规则对系统效能进行优劣排序.通过实例仿真与数据计算,证明了该算法可以解决在样本指标取值不确定时ELINT系统效能评估问题.     

基于直觉梯形模糊信息的目标优先级排序方法

针对地面防空作战中空中目标的优先级排序问题,提出了一种基于直觉梯形模糊信息的优先级排序方法。使用直觉梯形模糊数来描述空中目标的属性参数,分析了目标优先级的影响因素,并利用熵权法确定了影响因素的权重;针对传统TOPSIS方法的缺陷,提出了一种利用相对熵作为距离测度的优先级排序方法;最后结合算例仿真验证了方法的合理性和可行性。     

基于Vague集的地面防空武器系统作战效能评估

针对已有评估方法存在的不足,提出一种基于Vague集的地面防空武器系统作战效能评估新方法。分析了影响地面防空武器系统作战效能的指标因素,给出了各评价指标的模糊值表示及指标权重的计算方法,该方法能有效避免传统的专家打分法造成的主观偏差。在此基础上,建立了基于Vague集的地面防空武器系统作战效能综合评价模型,给出了评价其优劣的排序方法。最后通过实例仿真验证,该方法评估结果准确,对指挥员科学决策具有一定的参考价值。     

Vague物元及熵权的空袭目标威胁评估

为了应对防空反导作战需求,提出了一种基于Vague物元及熵权的空袭目标威胁评估方法。建立了空袭目标威胁评估复合Vague物元的概念,提出了一种新的将复合Vague物元转化为适合度物元的排序函数,使复合Vague物元便于量化处理,并运用熵权法客观地计算出了各空袭目标属性的权重,根据空袭目标威胁评估物元与正负理想物元的相对贴近度最终得到了目标威胁程度的排序。实例分析验证了该方法的实用性和有效性。     

非致命微波武器综合效能评估

针对非致命微波武器效能评估问题,通过分析影响非致命微波武器效能的关键因素,建立了非致命微波武器评价指标体系,提出了非致命微波武器效能的评估方法。采用一致性排序法确定各个指标的分配权重,并将Vague集应用到效能评估中,利用加权贴近度表征非致命微波武器效能的评估值。得到评估结果与实际情况相符,为国内非致命微波武器发展提供了理论依据。     

基于Vague集投影及距离的地面防空火力配系评估

针对已有评估方法存在的不足,提出一种基于Vague集投影及距离的地面防空火力配系评估新方法。分析了影响防空火力配系的指标因素,并给出各评价指标的Vague值表示方法。在此基础上,应用Vague集投影及距离的多属性模糊决策理论,建立了地面防空火力配系评估数学模型,给出了评价其优劣的排序方法。最后通过实例分析验证,该方法评估结果准确,对指挥员科学决策具有一定的参考价值。     

近似推理在水雷参数分析专家系统中的应用

为了尽快分析出未知水雷障碍参数,根据水雷战的特点,提出了建立未知水雷障碍参数分析专家系统的观点,对专家系统的设计方法进行了一定的探讨,并针对专家系统建立中的"瓶颈"问题,提出了基于Vague集插值近似推理的专家系统知识自动获取方法,在介绍推理过程的基础上给出了算例.从推理的结果来看,该方法具有较高的可信度,从而为专家系统的研制提供了一定的方法支持.     

相控阵雷达维修方案优选方法研究

针对相控阵雷达维修方案的选择问题,确定了维修方案的决策属性,并提出一种基于改进TOPSIS法的相控阵雷达维修方案优选方法。该方法通过引入Vague集来处理维修方案选择中存在的模糊信息,并采用博弈论综合赋权法来确定决策属性的综合权重。通过计算各备选方案与正、负理想方案的灰色关联度,得到了维修方案的灰色关联相对贴近度,进而实现对维修方案的排序和选择。最后,通过算例应用与分析,对提出的方法进行了验证。     

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).     

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.     

Reviews

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Ian Knight, Zulu: Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, 22–23 January 1879. London: Windrow & Greene, 1992. Pp.136, 150 illus., incl 8 colour plates, maps, biblio. £35. ISBN 1–872004–23–7

Ian Knight, By the Orders of the Great White Queen: Campaigning in Zululand through the Eyes of the British Soldiers, 1879. London: Greenhill Books and Novato: Presidio Press, 1992. Pp. 272, 17 illus., 1 map. £18.95. ISBN 1–85367–122–3

Manfried Rauchensteiner and Erwin A. Schmidl (eds.), Formen des Krieges: vom Mittelalter zum ‘Low‐intensity’ Conflict’. Graz : Verlag Styria, 1991. Pp.208. DM35. ISBN 3–22–12139–7

Harold J. Kearsley, Maritime Power and the Twenty‐First Century. Dartmouth: Dartmouth Publishing Company, Limited, 1992. Pp.xv + 203, 13 diagrams, index. £32.50. ISBN 1–85521–288–9     

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.