陆军武器装备综合集成体系的系统效能评估模型*

陆军武器装备综合集成体系的系统效能评估是体系建设的的重要内容.给出了基于ADC方法研究的陆军武器装备综合集成体系的可用性和可信性定量评估模型,并结合应用示例评估了两种作战模式下某防空系统的作战能力和系统效能,通过评估结果的比较分析,验证了所建模型的有效性.     

陆军武器装备综合集成体系的系统效能评估模型

陆军武器装备综合集成体系的系统效能评估是体系建设的的重要内容．给出了基于ADC方法研究的陆军武器装备综合集成体系的可用性和可信性定量评估模型，并结合应用示例评估了两种作战模式下某防空系统的作战能力和系统效能，通过评估结果的比较分析，验证了所建模型的有效性。     

陆军装备集成体系作战能力的评估方法研究*

作战能力的评估是陆军武器装备综合集成体系建设的重要内容.本文从陆军武器装备综合集成体系的作战过程出发,基于任务链整体作战能力作为体系作战能力形成的基本单元的研究分析,设计了陆军武器装备综合集成体系的作战能力评估模型,得出了基于群组模糊广义AHP的评估指标权重方法.通过应用示例验证了该模型算法的实用性,示例结果表明陆军武器装备综合集成体系具有更强的任务承受能力.     

陆军武器装备发展规划评估研究

本文以陆军武器装备发展规划评估分析框架为基础,借鉴公共政策评估相关理论,提出了陆军武器装备发展规划评估指标体系的设计思路,构建了陆军武器发展规划评估指标体系,最后阐述了如何运用基于AHP的模糊综合评估法评估陆军武器装备发展规划。     

基于集对分析的航材保障效能评估

航材保障是航空兵部队技术保障的物资基础,其效能直接影响空军武器装备的作战效能.应用集对分析方法在确定随机系统中的某一特性上具有同异反定量刻画的特点,通过建立各系统航材保障效能评估指标的集对,据此对航材保障效能进行评估,最后得出一组合理的评估结果.     

基于贝叶斯网络的武器装备体系作战效能评估方法

武器装备体系的作战效能呈现非线性、对抗性、动态性等特点,武器装备体系的建设发展对评估模型的应用分析提出更高的要求。由于贝叶斯网络具备对武器装备体系的效能与指标之间的非线性关系的良好映射能力、对动态过程良好的描述能力、良好的推理分析的能力,基于贝叶斯网络的作战效能评估成为了该领域目前的研究热点之一。论述了武器装备体系的作战效能评估以及贝叶斯网络的发展现状,及基于贝叶斯网络的作战效能评估方法的研究现状,指出了基于贝叶斯网络的武器装备体系作战效能评估方法的发展方向。     

建设具有我军特色的数字化部队势在必行 势必能行

数字化部队是现代信息技术运用于军事领域的产物,是信息时代陆军的发展趋势和提高陆军战斗力的必然选择。本文分析了我陆军建设数字化部队的必要性、紧迫性与可行性;指出建设数字化部队必须实现武器装备与编制编成、作战理论与教育训练的一体化发展,并针对我陆军数字化部队建设的规模与进度、建设重点以及基本建设思路等问题提出了建设性意见。     

基于模糊系统的武器装备体系效能评估方法

通过武器装备体系效能仿真来评估体系的作战效能,是发展武器装备体系的关键。本文首先阐述了武器装备体系效能的评估原理,然后基于体系效能仿真,提出了运用知识发现方法进行体系效能评估的新思路,接着建立了基于模糊系统的体系效能评估方法,最后,对武器装备体系效能评估进行了总结。     

基于仿真的技术保障装备体系效能评估方法

针对陆军技术保障装备体系效能评估需求,提出了基于仿真的技术保障装备体系效能评估方法框架,研究构建了技术保障装备体系效能评估指标体系,给出了指标参数值计算方法和指标权重确定方法,设计了技术保障装备体系效能仿真评估系统功能框架,为面向技术保障装备体系论证与优化的效能评估提供了方法和手段支撑.     

基于模糊TOPSIS的陆军合成营战场态势感知效能评估

从陆军合成营战场态势感知效能的影响因素出发,构建了陆军合成营战场态势感知效能评估指标体系;运用模糊TOPSIS,给出了陆军合成营战场态势感知效能评估方法;通过实例分析,对不同陆军合成营的战场态势感知效能进行评估,结果表明该方法有效可行,能够为陆军合成营战场态势感知效能评估及优化提供科学有力支撑。     

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.