The practice and theory of British counterinsurgency: the histories of the atrocities at the Palestinian villages of al-Bassa and Halhul, 1938–1939

This article details two largely unreported atrocities by British forces operating against Arab rebels during the Arab revolt, 1936–9, at the Palestinian villages of al-Bassa and Halhul. It then examines the military-legal system that underpinned and authorised British military forces operating in aid of the civil power, suggesting that the law in place at the time allowed for a level of reprisals and punitive actions, such as happened at al-Bassa and Halhul. The article does not conclude that the law allowed for atrocities but it does argue that it gave a basic form and understanding to an operational method that was brutal and could lead to atrocities. It thus tests the idea in much of the literature on counterinsurgency that the British were restrained and used minimum force when compared to other colonial and neo-colonial powers fighting insurgents.     

Colonial violence and its ‘Small Wars’: fighting the Kuki ‘guerillas’ during the Great War in Northeast India, 1917–1919

ABSTRACT

This paper concerns the lesser known British counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Northeast frontier of India during the First World War. Officially known as the ‘Kuki Operations’, it was considered as part of the Great War. Carried out in isolation from press and public, and shelved in colonial archives, the event remained invisible until today. Yet, it registers a critical case of colonial COIN doctrine where the ‘moral effect’ doctrine was employed without being questioned. It unleashed enormous amount of organized violence, ranging from shoot at sight to indiscriminate burning of villages, wholesale destruction of property and livestock, prevention of cultivation and rebuilding of villages, forced mass displacement in jungles or in ‘concentration camps’, and collective punishment (communal penal labour and payment of compensation) after the war. This paper argues that the theory of ‘minimum force’ and the practicability of the ‘moral effect’ doctrine as applied by the Empire, sit oddly with each other at the frontier, where violence was seen both as a natural and moral orders. Violence as an ‘imperatively necessary’ method to bring order in a disorderly frontier, in the opinion of colonial state, informs and registers Northeast India as geography of violence.     

基于GDOP的多基地雷达布站优化研究

以BLUE算法和GDOP为基本定位算法和精度分析工具,评估多基地雷达的定位性能,建立以GDOP最小值最小和有效监控区最大为目标的多基地雷达布站优化模型.仿真结果表明,通过以下措施可提高定位性能:①增加收发站总数;②采取扇形方式布站;③优先增加部署接收站;④交替部署收发站;⑤通过优化模型优化扇形布站分布角总和.     

最小交互熵谱估计在反坦克导弹系统仿真模型验证中的应用

针对反坦克导弹系统动态过程仿真的输出具有短时序、低信噪比的特点 ,研究了应用最小交互熵谱估计验证导弹系统仿真模型有效性的方法 ,并结合某型号滚转稳定的反坦克导弹系统的仿真数据和理论计算数据给出了最小交互熵谱估计的应用结果。     

Estimating the point availability with right‐censored data

The point availability of a one‐unit system at a specified time is defined as the probability that the component is operating at that time. When both operating time and repair time are subject to random (right) censorship, we propose an asymptotic nonparametric approach for constructing confidence intervals for the point availability of the system. The technique is based on the fact that a product limit estimator converges to a Gaussian process. The method is also extended to finding confidence intervals for the point availability of a complex system using the δ‐Method. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 119–127, 1999     

再入弹道参数自适应估计

本文研究再入弹道参数的自适应估计。所采用的方法对动力学模型噪声的未知统计特性进行补偿,并对状态参数与测量设备的系统误差交叉进行估计。仿真结果表明,无论是状态参数的估计还是测量系统误差的估计,都具有较高的精度。     

关于Chidume的一个公开问题

借助于Banach空间一些新的不等式和一些分析技巧彻底解决了Chidume在1994年提出的有关Ishikawa迭代过程的收敛性方面的一个公开问题。     

恒加试验的最优线性不变估计

给出了恒加试验的最优线性无偏估计与最优线性不变估计。与有关文献给出的二步估计相比,这两个估计有较大改进,并且在计算上简单可行。     

分段线性凸费用网络流的两个算法

本文讨论了分段线性凸费用网络流问题,推广了线性费用网络流中的负回路方法和最小费用路方法,从而得到了求分段线性凸费用网络的最小费用流的两个算法。     

高阶累积量自适应波束形成的改进算法

针对线性约束最小方差(LCMV)算法在自适应波束形成时,存在的对噪声敏感、信噪比(SNR)较高时波束形成受小特征值扰动影响较大的情况。在基于高阶累积量的LCMV算法的基础上提出改进方法。该方法首先计算阵列接收数据的高阶累积量,然后对高阶累积量构造数据增广矩阵,进行奇异值分解求出伪逆,再用伪逆修正LCMV算法的权值,形成波束。仿真结果表明,相比于传统LCMV算法与基于高阶累积量的LCMV算法。算法能够有效地克服信噪比升高时小特征值扰动对波束形成的不良影响,且在较低快拍数下仍能有效形成波束。