建立区域灭火救援协作机制的实践与思考

针对当前我国应急救援机制在统一指挥协调、运转协调等方面存在问题的现状,以建立区域灭火救援协作机制为突破口,对区域内军队、政府、企业等各种灭火救援资源进行有效整合,形成“资源共享、优势互补、联动协作”灭火救援新机制的实践,总结了聊城创新灭火救援协作机制的经验做法,并进一步提出如何充实、完善灭火救援协作机制,实现灭火救援行动“统一指挥、反应灵敏、功能齐全、协调有序、运转高效”,提高区域内灭火救援能力。     

消防部队承担地震紧急救援任务的思考

近年来,国家地震局依托消防部队在23个省市消防特勤部队成立了省级地震灾害紧急救援队。公安消防部队参加地震紧急救援工作具备一定优势,但也还存在不少困难。分析了消防部队承担地震灾害紧急救援任务的优势及存在的问题,并从体制、训练机制、器材装备建设、救援机制等方面提出了解决问题的对策。     

对加强新时期消防部队心理工作的思考

良好的心理素质是官兵依法履行职责、完成各项任务的基本保证,消防部队时刻要面对血与火、生与死的考验,心理工作成为了当前消防部队思想政治工作中的新课题。加强消防官兵心理工作,首先要更新“三种理念”,核心是抓好“四个环节”,关键是处理好“两种关系”。     

当前消防部队经费预算管理存在问题及对策研讨

当前各级消防部队十分重视预算管理,不断加强对预算工作的监督和控制,取得了良好的效益,但也存在一些亟待解决的问题。从消防部队经费预算管理存在的主要问题入手,对存在问题的原因进行分析,提出了加强经费预算管理的对策。     

公安武警边防部队非对称力量作战战法研究

在和平时期,各国武装警察的基本任务是打击各种违法犯罪活动。但是,各种反人类的违法犯罪活动是一种极少数人的行为,违法犯罪分子与武装警察的作战必然是一种非对称力量对抗的特殊作战。面对这种客观存在的非对称力量作战,公安武警边防部队要深入研究此条件下作战的基本战法。     

The Afghan model in northern Iraq

In Operation ‘Iraqi Freedom’, as the Coalition's heavy forces fought in the South, in the North a handful of special operations forces, working with Kurdish rebels, clashed with the Iraqi army along the Green Line. In operations reminiscent of those used a year earlier to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, the lightly armed and heavily outnumbered Coalition forces called in air strikes to defeat Iraq's regular and Republican Guard army divisions. This article tells the story of these operations and discusses some of their implications for future US military policy. The success of the Afghan model in Iraq goes a long way toward demonstrating the efficacy of new air-heavy tactics and shows the strategic value of using light indigenous allies to replace heavy US land forces in both conventional combat and occupation operations.     

The use of undercover military units in counter-terrorist operations: a historical analysis with reference to contemporary anti-terrorism

This article examines the use of specialised plain-clothes military units in counter-terrorism, concentrating on examples involving liberal-democratic states. It analyses the benefits and problems arising from clandestine military activity, focusing in particular on British army units (notably 14 Intelligence Company and the Force Research Unit in Northern Ireland). The article concludes by arguing that such formations have a clear utility – notably in gathering intelligence on terrorist groups – but other aspects of their role are inherently controversial (notably in cases where undercover soldiers use deadly force against suspected terrorists). It also states that plain-clothes military operations need to be conducted on the basis of accountability, both for strategic reasons, and also in accordance with the norms of liberal democracy.     

Exporting professionalism: US efforts to reform the armed forces in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, 1916–1933

Why did the United States, a country notorious for supporting coups and military dictatorships in Latin America during the Cold War, seek to depoliticize security forces in the Caribbean basin during the early twentieth century? Drawing from primary sources, I argue that this emphasis on military non-partisanship abroad stemmed from Progressive Era reforms popular at home. These reforms, which stressed bureaucratic efficiency via nonpartisan expertise, had become institutionalized within the US military and State Department and then channelled into the imperial administration of Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. The State Department and Marine Corps attempted to replace local partisan armies with the kind of professional, nonpartisan armed forces that the US's own military had come to exemplify. That these civil-military reform efforts ultimately backfired should serve as a reminder of the difficulties inherent in using military interventions to transform coercive apparatuses and their societies.     

The missing dimension: IDF special operations forces and strategy in the Second Lebanon War

In the course of the 2006 Lebanon War the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) employed special operations forces (SOF) for raids against Hizb'allah's command and control structure. This article argues that a faulty conceptualization of the value of special operations and misguided expectations determined by the new IDF concept of operations impacted adversely on the employment of SOF for this kind of operations. Both these elements contributed in turn to substantially degrade SOF performance in the context of the war.