基于灰色关联投影法的空中加油机驻场选址评价

提出了一种基于灰色关联投影法的空中加油机驻场选址评价方法,分析了空中加油机驻场选址影响因素,设计了评价指标体系,并运用熵值理论客观赋权,构建了加权灰色关联决策矩阵。通过比较备选方案与理想方案灰色关联投影角,根据灰色关联投影值对备选方案进行优劣排序。算例分析结果符合现实场站选择条件,说明该方法能够有效解决空中加油机驻场选址问题。     

多指标综合评估决策的一种新方法

为了解决评估决策过程中不同类型指标难以综合处理等问题,提出一种新的评估决策方法。该方法以投影技术为基础,将实数指标、区间型指标和模糊型指标综合起来,形成评估矩阵,并根据指标优劣差异对其进行规范化处理;然后通过各方案在某个指标下的评估差异值的大小确定该指标的权重,由此得出各方案在正负理想点上的投影,实现待评方案综合排序。以网络质量综合评估决策为例,对其基本原理和实施步骤进行了分析。实验结果表明:该方法是有效的,为多种类型指标综合评估决策提供了一种新思路。     

灰色关联投影法的威胁排序算法

威胁评估与排序是作战系统和C4I系统必须具备的重要功能.结合多指标决策理论和灰色系统理论,提出了基于多指标决策灰色关联投影法的威胁排序算法.首先通过建立灰色关联判断矩阵将威胁排序转化为多指标决策问题;其次为缩小极端值的影响提出了基于信息熵的威胁指标权重算法;最后从矢量投影角度应用灰色关联投影值进行威胁排序;并分别研究了分辨系数和指标权重对威胁排序的影响.通过现代防空作战实例验证了算法的有效性和工程实用性.     

混合多属性决策投影算法的装甲分队目标价值评估

科学评价混合多属性目标价值是装甲分队作战决策的基础,为提高信息化装甲分队作战辅助决策水平,建立了混合多属性评估矩阵并运用投影算法完成目标价值评估与排序。实例分析表明,基于混合多属性决策投影算法可合理有效地评估多目标价值,为分队指挥员科学决策提供重要数据支持。     

基于数据包络分析交叉效率模型的装备保障方案评估

针对装备使用过程中对具体保障方案评估研究少,传统自我评估方法存在主观偏好等问题,采用基于交叉效率的数据包络分析法(DEA),对某保障单位近10年来的装备保障方案进行了评估。分析并构建了装备保障方案评估指标体系,建立了基于DEA交叉效率的装备保障方案评估模型;通过Matlab编程计算得出各方案效率值,并进行有效性分析;根据投影原理对DEA无效方案提出改进方向;通过交叉效率模型计算得出效率评估矩阵,据此对方案进行优劣排序;对比分析了CCR模型和交叉效率模型评估结果。实际评估表明,该方法有效克服了传统DEA评估方法指标权重确立主观性强、不能对有效决策单元进一步排序的不足,从而使评估结果更客观、可信。     

多属性决策的野战防空作战部署方案评估

为适应战场环境的多变性和不确定性,从能够决定战场态势的多重因素出发,对防空作战部署方案进行评估,从多个备选方案中选出最优方案。针对评估指标的多变性和不确定性,提出了多属性决策的评估方法。影响作战部署的因素有主次之分,对于各个参数的权重问题,采用了熵值法计算以进行权重的确定。根据各个方案的参数计算出理想解和负理想解,继而计算出各个方案的相对贴近度,由此实现对最优部署方案的快速选择。最后通过一个实例验证了评估方法的有效性。     

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。     

高性能炸药综合性能的多维评估

基于欧几里得几何距离的概念,给出了一种炸药综合性能的多维空间评估方法。这种方法在确定炸药理想方案和最差方案的基础上,综合考虑了各种炸药方案与理想方案和最差方案的欧几里得几何距离,以此评估炸药综合性能。     

基于灰色理想方案的气垫艇登陆点优选

气垫艇登陆点优选是超越式登陆作战训练过程中必须解决的核心问题之一.结合灰关联分析理论、熵值法和逼近于理想的技术,提出了一种基于灰色理想方案的灰关联分析技术.建立使登陆点条件最优化的目标函数而求得备选登陆点的评估系数,从而根据备选登陆点的评估系数的大小排序选择最优登陆点.     

车牌定位算法在边防出入境车辆管理中的应用

基于图像差分析和投影分布特征的车牌自动定位算法,在充分考虑了汽车原始灰度图像和车牌结构特点的基础上,通过图像差分、二值化、分别向垂直和水平方向投影等步骤,最终实现对车牌的自动定位和分割.整个算法使用Matlab软件进行了仿真,仿真的结果表明该算法具有快速准确的优点.通过大量的试验证明,该算法在实践中是有效的,对于实现边防出入境车辆的自动化管理有着重要的应用价值.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

SIM—LISP:一个通信网络管理专家系统外壳的设计与实现

本文介绍了笔者为开发名为OONMES的网络管理专家系统所实现的一个简单专家系统工具SIM-LISP。SIM-LISP是一个用C/C++语言来实现的模拟LISP语言的可调用函数集,它短小精巧,速度快,可以完成针对网管专家系统的事实或规则知识的表示、匹配、合一和推理等基本操作,并有与知识对象的连接功能,是网管专家系统内核实现的支撑环境。     

Al Qaida on the US invasion of Afghanistan in their own words

This article consists of selected translations from captured interviews and dairies of Al Qaida members. The time period covered is from mid-2001 to early 2002 and concerns their operations in Afghanistan. The material clearly conveys a range of emotion, from confident to despondent, as well as efforts to contest the US actions. The first several pages give the reader context and some possible “lessons learned,” but the story(ies) are best told by the Al Qaida members themselves. All names are pseudonyms.     

Does Intent equal Capability? Al-Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction

The prospect of terrorists deploying weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is often referred to as the foremost danger to American national security. This danger has become more realistic because of al-Qaeda's expanding global network and the expressed willingness to kill thousands of civilians. In the past four years, numerous media reports have documented the group's ongoing quest for WMD capabilities; many reports have detailed al-Qaeda members’ attempts to manufacture or obtain certain chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents to use in WMD against targets in the West and the Middle East. Yet the question remains: Does al-Qaeda's current WMD capability match its actual intent? While most studies of the group have focused on its explicit desire for WMD, allegations of CBRN acquisition, and the killing potential of specific CBRN agents, few open-source studies have closely examined the evolution of al-Qaeda's consideration of WMD and, most notably, the merit of actual CBRN production instructions as depicted and disseminated in the group's own literature and manuals. The following report will examine the history of al-Qaeda's interest in CBRN agents, the evolution of the network's attitude toward these weapons, and the internal debate within the organization concerning acquisition and use of WMD. More so, the following research will assess the validity of actual CBRN production instructions and capabilities as displayed and disseminated in al-Qaeda's own literature and websites.     

Late Medieval Lance Use: Mounted Combat and Martial Arts in Western Europe from the 14th to the 16th Century

Despite the lance’s status and the amount of attention the couched lance has received in historiography, study of its martial art has been neglected. The various lance types and techniques used by western European cavalry have only recently begun to receive scholarly attention. Additionally, Medieval European lance use has too often been studied in isolation, without an adequate understanding of the idiosyncratic and asymmetrical dynamics of mounted combat. Although the charge with the couched lance was a valid tactic, it was only one of many. Light and heavy lances were used in one hand or two to trip, block, unhorse, and wrestle. These techniques were governed by the harsh laws of distance, speed, impact, iron, and asymmetry. By utilizing the surviving Fechtbücher and several Peninsular and Near Eastern sources, a brief foray into the diverse techniques of lance use and their purposes has been attempted here.     

A model for geographically distributed combat interactions of swarming naval and air forces

This article describes the Distributed Interaction Campaign Model (DICM), an exploratory campaign analysis tool and asset allocation decision‐aid for managing geographically distributed and swarming naval and air forces. The model is capable of fast operation, while accounting for uncertainty in an opponent's plan. It is intended for use by commanders and analysts who have limited time for model runs, or a finite budget. The model is purpose‐built for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and supports analysis of the following questions: What happens when swarms of geographically distributed naval and air forces engage each other and what are the key elements of the opponents’ force to attack? Are there changes to force structure that make a force more effective, and what impacts will disruptions in enemy command and control and wide‐area surveillance have? Which insights are to be gained by fast exploratory mathematical/computational campaign analysis to augment and replace expensive and time‐consuming simulations? An illustrative example of model use is described in a simple test scenario. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 562–576, 2016     

Thomas Firth and Sons – Steelmakers to the Arms Industries. Part 2: Heavy Armaments

Firth’s were the first of the Sheffield steel makers to enter the field armaments. Their involvement with Colt has been outlined in an article in the journal of the Colt Collectors Association in America and their activities as steelmakers to the small-arms industries has been covered in a previous issue of this Journal. This article gives a brief overview of their involvement as manufacturers in the field of heavy armaments, being the first to make all-steel guns and their evolving role in the use of steel for ordnance, culminating in the displacement of wrought iron by the adoption of steel for ordnance manufacture by the Royal Gun Factory in the 1880s. It also highlights their development of stainless steel in this context.     

Information Is Not a Weapons System

ABSTRACT

While many militaries have tried to capitalize on the potential of information operations in internal war, few have succeeded. I argue that military information campaigns fall short of expectations for two reasons. First, the theory of influence militaries generally embrace – communications as a non-lethal weapons system – is largely invalid. While treating information as a weapons system makes it easier to integrate it into the existing military planning system, this overstates the independent effects of communications on behavior and understates the importance of interactive effects of what commercial marketing theory refers to as the “marketing mix” – product, price, promotion, and placement. It would be more appropriate to treat military information operations as a form of marketing: a composite effort to induce a specific behavior in a target audience by applying a combination of material and ideational instruments. The marketing model suggests that the efficacy of information operations will depend not simply on the message and its delivery (promotion) but on the behavior the sender seeks to induce (the product), the costs of that behavior (the price), and the opportunities available for such behavior (the placement).