基于物联网技术的应急物流军民协同保障系统

结合物联网技术的应用和发展情况,分析了构建基于物联网技术的应急物流军民协同保障系统的意义;设计了基于物联网技术的应急物流军民保障系统框架,由事件感知、信息传输、数据提取、技术支撑、应用服务、协同保障和用户决策7个环节组成,并对基于物联网技术的应急物流军民保障系统的功能结构进行了分析;建立了基于物联网技术的应急物流军民保障系统的流程,分为事件感知、事件响应和事件收尾3个阶段并进行了分析。该系统对于实现应急物流军民协同快速保障具有一定的参考价值。     

基于群决策协同网络信息的掩护机编队选择

针对任务机群中掩护机编队的选择,用群决策协同网络信息模型进行了掩护机编队的选择。首先,给出了协同网络、模糊数和语言变量的相关概念;其次,分析了掩护机编队选择的指标体系框架和协同网络信息框架;然后,构建了群决策协同网络信息的数学模型,在此基础上,给出了方案选择的步骤;最后,运用该模型对掩护机编队的选择进行求解。结果表明：该模型能够综合群体专家的知识,解决掩护机编队选择中的定性判断问题。该模型可用于个体指标和协同指标均为定性指标时的方案优选问题。     

A reply to Larry cable

Recent counterinsurgency experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated that the local operating environment often is dominated by indigenous power-holders. As counterinsurgents seek to establish control over the local population, collaboration with these agents has become an essential aspect of contemporary counterinsurgency. Although the practice of constructing collaborative relationships with indigenous power-holders might be perceived as unconventional by today's counterinsurgents, the approach itself goes back to the colonial era in which modern counterinsurgency has its roots. This article explores the dynamics, benefits, and dangers of collaborative relationships with indigenous power-holders by analysing an infamous episode in Dutch colonial history, the case of the collaboration between Dutch colonial authorities and warlord Teuku Uma during the Aceh War (1873–1913). This relationship ended in disaster for the Dutch as Uma departed their side at the moment he had become their pivotal asset in the local political landscape. The article explains that the Dutch succeeded to co-opt Uma, but failed to control him as they lacked the will and means to do so. Furthermore this case study provides an insight in the way the Dutch colonial authorities dealt with the complex process of intelligence-gathering in a fragmented indigenous society.     

Research communication

A UK House of Commons Defence Committee (HCDC) Report on the Gulf War recommended that the UK should be self‐sufficient in supporting its Armed Forces in times of crisis and not even rely on its Allies. This recommendation is at odds with UK Government policy which rejects any formal strategy of support for the defence industrial base preferring international open competition as its procurement philosophy. This paper examines the various factors ranging from the supply of raw materials, production capacity, stockpiling, international joint ventures, and competition through to the effects on the technological update of weapon systems resulting from this philosophy. It draws conclusions supporting the HCDC recommendation and calls for joint MOD‐Industry action to address the issues involved and thereby reduce the risks to the Defence of the Realm.     

基于网络信息体系的临机协同问题研究

研究在联合作战条件下,网络信息体系对联合作战临机协同带来的影响,科学确定基于网络信息体系的临机协同基本程序。提出在组织联合作战临机协同时,必须充分把握好临机协同行动中局部与整体的关系,掌握好联合作战临机协同的发起条件和协同规则,有效提升协同指挥效能。     

编队一体化协作指挥决策概念构建

以海上编队一体化作战需求为牵引,以提升编队整体指挥决策效能为目的,在系统地分析了编队指挥决策的协同与协作的基础上,提出了编队一体化协作指挥决策的概念,并探讨了协作的一体化、指挥决策过程的一体化及元决策与指挥决策的一体化,对进一步研究编队一体化协作指挥决策过程和面向协作的辅助决策技术有着重要的参考意义。     

How they joined? Militants and informers in the armed conflict in Donbas

ABSTRACT

The effectiveness of recruitment strategies is crucial for sustainability of any insurgent campaign. This paper identifies eight mechanisms used to encourage overt and covert participation in the armed conflict in Donbas and shows that they varied depending on the type of service expected from a recruit. It relies on the original dataset compiled from studying 798 court cases of insurgents and informers convicted in Ukrainian courts in the period from October 2014 to March 2017. The paper finds that militants were more responsive to contractual or hierarchical mechanisms of recruitment, while informers who provided cover support were more likely to join through ideological appeals or activation of prior social ties.     

Collaboration in contingent capacities with information asymmetry

We study the optimal contracting problem between two firms collaborating on capacity investment with information asymmetry. Without a contract, system efficiency is lost due to the profit‐margin differentials among the firms, demand uncertainty, and information asymmetry. With information asymmetry, we demonstrate that the optimal capacity level is characterized by a newsvendor formula with an upward‐adjusted capacity investment cost, and no first‐best solution can be achieved. Our analysis shows that system efficiency can always be improved by the optimal contract and the improvement in system efficience is due to two factors. While the optimal contract may bring the system's capacity level closer to the first‐best capacity level, it prevents the higher‐margin firm from overinvesting and aligns the capacity‐investment decisions of the two firms. Our analysis of a special case demonstrates that, under some circumstances, both firms can benefit from the principal having better information about the agent's costs. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 54:, 2007     

Brothers in arms,yet again? Twenty-first century Sino-Russian strategic collaboration in the realm of defence and security

2014–2015 were years of turmoil for strategic relations, with Sino-Russian relations emerging as a particularly interesting set of ties to observe. This article asks whether recurrent Sino-Russian exhortations of friendship are mirrored by their strategic alignment in the defence and security realm, half a century after the end of the Sino-Soviet pact during the communist era. We examine the arms trade between the two countries and with regional partners, but also the recent pattern of bilateral and multilateral military exercises, as a combined test of the security and defence relationship. We are able to show that the image of friendship that both Moscow and Beijing like to promote, while apparent at the UN Security Council and within the BRICS group, remains constrained by rivalry in high-tech segments of the arms industry and by lingering concerns about the prospects of peer interference in their shared regional vicinity.     

新课程实施中家长如何有效协同学校教育

家庭教育是学校教育的延伸和拓展,是学生素质教育体系中不可或缺的重要部分,家长是否有效地协同学校对孩子进行教育,直接决定着学校教育的效果。本文旨在探讨在新课程实施背景下,家长如何有效地协同学校教育。