“长城文化”现象与中国人文精神的重塑

从游牧文化与农业文化冲突的视角 ,对“长城文化”现象进行了历史的思考 ,以此为基础 ,又从农业文化同工商文化的冲突的角度 ,对中国一百多年来中西文化的冲突作了反思 ,提出了对于中国人文精神重塑的几点看法和认识。     

儒家法文化的现代法治价值

作为封建正统法律思想的儒家法文化对维护社会统治起了重要作用,在近代却遭到一系列的冲击。反思目前法治建设中出现的一系列问题,可以发现儒家法文化并非一无是处,对其不应该盲目地全盘否定,而应该批判地继承。     

对《古长城反思》一文的商榷

万里长城是中华民族勤劳和智慧的象征,是世界军事筑城史上的伟大奇迹。但是,近年来有的作者在其反思中国传统文化的文章中,却把长城说成是中华民族闭塞保守的象征。《军事历史》1987第5期刊载的《古长城反思》一文中,作者虽然说“古长城的存在,不仅为历代中原统治者大大节约了戍边守备的兵力,而且在保护中原地区经济、文化的繁荣和发展,保障中西交通等方面,也起到过积极的作用。”但在反思其“阴影”时,却说“长城几乎没有起到过中原统治者和军事家们所期望起到的作     

战后西德及统一后德国的“克服历史”

"克服历史"是在20世纪50年代西德全民反思起步的大背景下提出。西德全面的战争责任反思始于60年代,至70年代达到高潮。其后虽然经历了80年代初新右派保守势力"晚生幸福""告别纳粹"呼声下的回流,以及90年代两德统一后身份认同困境下历史修正观的影响,但最终仍步上了正向、积极的轨道。     

西方汉学视域下的中国古代军事文化

近半个世纪以来,西方汉学界对中国古代军事文化研究有很大的进展,既突破了“无兵文化”的观念,也突破了20世纪50年代以来流行的“西方中心论”模式。对于中国古代军事文化的研究,既要从历史观和方法论层面进行反思,又要考察中国军事文化与中国文化之间的关系,以及揭示中国军事文化理论与实践的内涵。     

用艺术对抗遗忘德国人对二战的反思

电影是一种艺术,也是一种文化载体,与战争相关的电影体现着人们对战争的审视和思考。今天,战火仍然在一些地方燃烧,战争并没有远离。透过电影的视角反思战争,关注战争中的国家意志、军人、平民、人性……正视战争给每一个个体带来的创伤,反思过去,是为了警示未来。     

美军反叛乱心理战分析——以美军阿富汗心理战行动为例

在反叛乱作战中,心理战行动发挥着核心作用.美军反思在阿富汗心理战行动的经验教训,在新的安全和信息环境下,积极采取各种措施,提升心理宣传的效果,取得了一定成效.     

多元文化教育背景下的学校文化建设探究

发端于美国的"多元文化教育"迅速发展,影响到学校教育的各个方面。本文通过分析多元文化教育的发展历程和价值内涵,明确多元文化教育的发展对学校文化建设的影响。对多元文化教育理念和价值取向进行反思,找出建设和谐共生、多元互动的学校文化发展的实现路径。     

中国传统价值观的探究

从中国传统价值观形成的社会历史根源、中国传统价值观的基本特点及其影响三方面探究中国传统价值观 ,对中国传统文化进行深入反思 ,指导当今社会的精神文明建设     

“全球化”语境下的中国民族文化

全球化对中国民族文化的发展将产生重大而深远的影响。本文重新探讨了全球化背景下,在西方强势文化的冲击下,中国民族文化整合的特点;以及在全球化背景下中国民族文化的发展、创新与重建的有关理论问题,提出了民族文化创新是主动回应文化全球化,实现中国民族文化走向世界的关键所在。     

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.     

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.     

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).     

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.     

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.