发扬优良传统履行时代使命

人民军队80年的辉煌历史,培育了听党指挥、服务人民、英勇善战的优良传统,形成了区别于其他任何军队的独特优势.在新世纪新阶段,进一步弘扬我党我军的优良传统,坚持党对军队的绝对领导,强化"军魂意识";树立为民服务的宗旨,永葆人民军队的无产阶级本质;培养英勇善战的能力,推进部队战斗力的提升,对于建设一支与维护国家安全和发展利益相适应的革命化、现代化、正规化军队,有效履行我军的时代使命,具有重大而深远的战略意义.     

挽歌背后的赞歌——山西省临汾民兵参加襄汾“9·8”溃坝事故抢险救援行动纪实

这是一篇迟来的报道,这是一篇背后的新闻。之所以迟来,是因为它缘于去年的一次特大灾难,也是人们不想再提及和不愿被揭开的伤痛;之所以是背后,是因为它被当时媒体的负面报道所冲淡,以致人们直面的是惨痛的教训和悲愤的追责。目前,记者赴基层采访,亲临事发现场,虽已不见当时的惨状,但眼前的残垣断壁仍让人心有余悸。谈及当时的救灾情况,随着军分区领导的娓娓道来,一幅幅惊心动魄、震撼人心的抢险画面清晰重现。一时间,记者有了一种强烈的报道冲动。虽说,灾难对人们来说,也许是一首充满悲情、不堪回首的挽歌,但对于灾难背后那一曲曲抢险救灾的赞歌,人们同样不能忘却,同样需要讴歌传颂。     

冬日里的暖阳

一月的农十师186团,白雪皑皑。在这寒冷的冬日里,186团的党员们开展的各类便民、惠民、利民、富民的活动,使地处边境一线的职工群众感受到党的关怀犹如那冬日的暖阳。一入冬以来,186团遭遇了接二连三的寒潮天气,设施农业办公室的技术员     

谈二十一世纪应如何做教师

现在有许多老教师都有这样的感叹:教书数十年了,可越教越不会教了!这看来惶惑心理的流露.其实是"实话实说".一直以来都沿用一种模式"老师讲,学生听",教师就是从事教学的"教书匠".这种教学模式取消了学生的主人翁地位,学生只是被动地装老师灌入的大多不理解的东西.社会在发展,社会需求也必然在不断地变化,教育应该随着社会对人才的需求去改变教学方法,培养社会需要的人才,才能适应社会的需要,促进社会的发展.     

梅里雪山的优秀儿子

远古传来一首吉祥的歌,歌的名字叫龚曲活佛,你是我见过最洁白的哈达,你是我心中不落的日月……其实,我们对龚曲此里的佩服,是从下飞机的那一刻就开始了。平原长大的人真的有些脆弱,不少的人在海拔3300米的香格里拉机场一下飞机就有了头晕气喘的感觉,高原反应让他们的血压升高,坐卧不安。二三月是迪     

论武器装备的劣势对志愿军作战的影响

在革命战争年代,中国共产党领导的人民军队以劣势装备先后打败了装备精良的日本军队和国民党军队,建立了新中国.但抗美援朝战争爆发后,中国人民志愿军在面对美国军队时发现:以往很多行之有效的经验不灵了.究其原因,主要是美军对志愿军在武器装备方面占有绝对优势,这种优势是日军对八路军、新四军的优势和国民党军对人民解放军的优势远远不能比拟的.这一特点深刻影响了志愿军的作战行动,改变了人民军队在以往战争中形成的很多作战原则,也深刻影响了抗美援朝战争的结局.     

学校加强未成年人思想道德建设的途径

青少年学生是祖国的未来和希望.他们的思想道德状况,关系到中华民族的整体素质,关系到国家的前途命运.尤其是进入了新的世纪,国内、国际的形势发生了变化,使得青少年学生的思想道德建设面临了很多新的机遇和严峻的挑战,也带来一些不容忽视的问题.     

亲情伴她走过风雨

我一定会努力上完大学,然后回到新疆,为新疆的医学事业奉献自己的力量。一个家境贫寒的女孩,在外公、外婆和哥哥的帮助下,不但艰难地读完了小学、中学,而且还在今年的高考中以678分的优异成绩考上了复旦大学。她就是农三师53团2连维吾尔族学生古丽巴努尔。古丽巴努尔的父母婚后不久,母亲便身患疾病,全家靠父亲打零工挣钱生活。1985年以后,随着古丽巴努尔的     

一本值得珍藏的国防教育好教材——读《中国人民解放军军事文化遗产》

历史是民族的记忆,遗存是历史的书签。当中国人民解放军的第80个生日即将来临的时候,笔者有幸读到了刚刚由上海大学出版社出版的、记载解放军革命军事遗存的新著———《中国人民解放军军事文化遗产》。该书由南京政治学院上海分院教授、博士生导师,上海市中共党史学会会长张云     

浅谈农牧团场学校管理

农牧团场学校自建校之初就承载着来自家长和社会越来越多的关注和期望。因为自然环境的恶劣,经济发展的缓慢落后,职工群众收入和生活水平的低下,使家长们把希望寄托在孩子身上,希望他们能很好地成长成才,将来能为团场建设出力,能为自己的发展奠定基础。因此学校的兴衰荣辱牵连着千家万户的心,使学校的领导、教师都感受到了随之而来的责任和压力。要办好团场学校,办出职工群众满意的教育,学校管理者特别是校长必须确立新的学校观和管理观,通过管理创新来应对变化,突出学校管理为学生、教师和学校的发展服务的思想,尊重广大师生,激励他们不断…     

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.