Lessons learnt? Cultural transfer and revolutionary wars, 1775–1831

Did participants in small wars in the period 1775–1831 learn from previous or contemporary examples? While this is difficult to prove for participants who left no written records, there is considerable evidence in existing publications by practitioners that they did indeed draw out lessons from recent insurgencies, either from their own experience or from events elsewhere which they studied from afar, especially the Spanish Guerrilla, which had already become legendary. Most authors showed an interest in how to stage insurgencies rather than in how to quell them. Even then, transfer did not come in a package of tactics-cum-values, but in each case in different configurations.     

RDWT和NVF的自适应彩色图像水印算法

提出一种基于冗余小波(RDWT:Redundant Wavelet Transform)和噪声可见度函数(NVF:Noise Visibility Function)的彩色图像水印嵌入新算法,该算法利用主体图像的稳态广义Gaussian模型描述图像的局部特性,建立了水印信息的加权系数计算公式。在水印嵌入过程中先对主图像在YIQ空间的Y分量进行RDWT变换。同时利用NVF函数对经过加密变换的水印进行加权处理,然后利用奇异值分解将水印嵌入到变换域复杂纹理和边缘区域。实验结果表明该算法在保证水印不可见性的同时能很好地抵抗多种几何攻击和图像处理攻击,实现了水印鲁棒性、不可见性和容量的统一。     

基于双自适应小波变换的JPEG2000数字水印算法

针对小波变换提出一种双自适应算法,并将该算法应用于JPEG2000压缩过程中的小波变换,在此基础之上,又提出一种适合于JPEG2000的数字水印算法．该算法利用JPEG2000压缩中的双白适应小波变换,将水印嵌入到量化后的小波系数中．实验证明,该算法具有较好的不可见性和较强的鲁棒性．     

人机环境工程的空管安全性模糊综合评判

针对人机环复杂因素的空管安全性评价难题,基于非对称贴近度,提出一种的多级模糊综合评判方法。首先构建了基于人机环境工程的空管安全影响因素集,包括人的因素、人机关系和环境条件这三大类因素集,然后依据因素评判的等级和标准,建立了基于非对称贴近度的空管安全性的多级模糊综合评判模型,最后以专家系统评价数据为基础,对某实际空管部门的安全性进行了模糊综合评判。研究方法和研究结论为科学评价空管系统的安全性提供了借鉴。     

旋转自稳定末敏子弹运动特性分析

为研究某型旋转自稳定末敏子弹运动特性,充分考虑末敏子弹的结构强非对称特点和其初始抛撒条件,引入动不平衡弹体模型,推导超大攻角条件下子弹的空间6自由度弹道方程,计算分析子弹的稳态扫描运动特性。结果表明:子弹体的质量分布非对称和初始抛撒角速度是子弹药实现稳态扫描运动的必要条件;子弹扫描频率只由抛撒角速度ω_(σ0)决定,且和ω_(σ0)正相关;初始俯仰角φ_(a0)≥0°时,扫描角整体呈增大趋势,初始俯仰角φ_(a0)0°时,扫描角整体变化趋势为先减小后增大;扫描面积与配重-全弹质量比、初始俯仰角、初始偏航角和初始角速度呈正相关,与均质圆柱体转动惯量比呈负相关。     

基于Multi—Agent仿真模型的非对称作战有效性分析

针对多要素在非对称作战中运用的复杂影响,建立了基于Multi-Agent的仿真模型,对非对称作战的有效性进行了数学解释;给出了Multi-Agent的系统结构,在EINsTein仿真平台中设置了指挥决策Agent、态势感知Agent、通信协作Agent和作战行动Agent,以此模拟作战要素在非对称作战中运用的主要功能,进而演示非对称作战的过程,获得非对称作战的仿真实验数据;仿真模型描述了多要素影响下作战体系的突变现象;通过作战目的的实现和高倍增的作战效果,实证了仿真模型的有效性和可行性。     

濒海战斗舰——美国海军新型装备

美国海军称濒海战斗舰（LCS）是一种适于近海复杂水情的快速、高度机动的水面作战平台。海湾战争之后,美军为了加强水面舰艇对地攻击、加强机动性和适应削减军费的形势,濒海战舰应运而生一跃成为当今世界武器的新宠。LCS具有单体和三体两种船体,根据三种作战任务实现模块化重构。尽管发展十多年来LCS在功能设计和火力配置上远远未达到军方的要求,被人指责为＂中看不中用＂,尽管LCS的费效比一直为美国国会所诟病,然而,LCS的建造代表着美国海军作战理念的战略转型。美海军在LCS的快速灵活、续航能力、武器装备方面不断寻求最优组合,以达到其控制亚太和世界海洋权的目的。文章较为系统地介绍美国LCS崛起的原因、发展历史、战术技术性能及近期发展动态。     

信息时代陆军谋求非对称优势作战的制胜机理探析

非对称作战优势是信息时代陆军作战谋求制胜的关键所在,对创新陆军作战理论和提高军种制胜能力有着至关重要的作用。其制胜的机理主要包括基于体系支撑,谋求非对称势差优势;基于信息主导,谋求非对称控制优势;基于联动释能,谋求非对称毁歼优势。     

Flexible capacity strategy in an asymmetric oligopoly market with competition and demand uncertainty

This article studies flexible capacity strategy (FCS) under oligopoly competition with uncertain demand. Each firm utilizes either the FCS or inflexible capacity strategy (IFCS). Flexible firms can postpone their productions until observing the actual demand, whereas inflexible firms cannot. We formulate a new asymmetrical oligopoly model for the problem, and obtain capacity and production decisions of the firms at Nash equilibrium. It is interesting to verify that cross‐group competition determines the capacity allocation between the two groups of firms, while intergroup competition determines the market share within each group. Moreover, we show that the two strategies coexist among firms only when cost differentiation is medium. Counterintuitively, flexible firms benefit from increasing production cost when the inflexible competition intensity is sufficiently high. This is because of retreat of inflexible firms, flexibility effect, and the corresponding high price. We identify conditions under which FCS is superior than IFCS. We also demonstrate that flexible firms benefit from increasing demand uncertainty. However, when demand variance is not very large, flexible firms may be disadvantaged. We further investigate the effects of cross‐group and intergroup competition on individual performance of the firms. We show that as flexible competition intensity increases, inflexible firms are mainly affected by the cross‐group competition first and then by the intergroup competition, whereas flexible firms are mainly affected by the intergroup competition. Finally, we examine endogenous flexibility and identify its three drivers: cost parameters, cross‐group competition, and intergroup competition. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 64: 117–138, 2017     

At war with social theory: Instrumental and communicative action in US military doctrine during the War on Terror

As US counterinsurgency campaigns draw to a close, doctrine for asymmetric warfare written during the War on Terror has come under heavy criticism. While many have argued that this shift to ‘winning hearts and minds’ is evidence that the United States is taking humanitarianism and nation-building seriously, others argue that a wide gap exists between US counterinsurgency doctrine and the protection of civilians afflicted by conflict. In this article, I show that the latter is true by comparing theories of instrumental and communicative action to US doctrine for operational design, stability operations, and counterinsurgency. I argue that these texts treat the people as an object to be manipulated for the achievement of pre-determined self-interested strategic goals rather than members of a community that jointly designs operations to fulfill shared objectives. However, US doctrine does contain communicative elements that, if prioritized, would better support humanitarian and state-building objectives otherwise subordinated in the War on Terror.