Bedeviled by a Paradox: Nitze,Bundy, and an Incipient Nuclear Norm

ABSTRACT

This article explores how two influential American policy makers—Paul Nitze and McGeorge Bundy—wrestled with the idea of a norm against the use of nuclear weapons. Existing scholarship has overlooked how both Bundy and Nitze came to understand the idea of nuclear non-use, especially related to the credibility of threats to use nuclear weapons. Using documentary evidence from their personal papers, this article illuminates the thinking of Bundy and Nitze, finding that both engaged with the idea of a norm of non-use of nuclear weapons in their strategic writing and thought.     

Clash of counterterrorism-assistance-seeking states and their super power sponsors: Implications on the war against Boko Haram

ABSTRACT

Decade-long security cooperation and counterterrorism engagements in Nigeria have failed to bring down Boko Haram or at least weaken its terrorist structures and transnational spread. I argue that disconnects between counterterrorism-assistance seeking states and their superpower sponsors are implicated in the intractability of Boko Haram's insurgency in Nigeria. Why is the U.S. counterterrorism intervention to individual MNJTF countries (i.e. troop contribution, military funding and intelligence support) ‘lopsided’, ‘fragmented’ and ‘unevenly distributed;’ and how are these implicated in the fight against Boko Haram terrorism? This has impacted negatively on MNJTF countries – lack of cooperation, divisiveness and individualism in coordinating and forging offensives against Boko Haram. These concerns interface several blind spots in the picture of external influences on military’s approach to Boko Haram. I elicit primary data from top military officers. I conclude by predicting the implications and consequences of these counterterrorism complexities, and their potency to defeat or encourage Boko Haram terror.     

海上维权斗争舆论战对策思考

舆论战作为信息时代一种独立而重要的作战样式,是一种渗透力、攻击力、威慑力很强的特殊武器,是海上维权斗争行动的重要组成部分.文章对开展海上雏权斗争舆论战的紧迫性进行了分析,归纳总结了海上维权斗争舆论战的特点,探索了开展海上维权斗争舆论战的对策.     

An informal framework to aid the analysis and design of military posture

The design of military posture is an exercise in confronting potential enemies’ capabilities within the context of geographic, technological, temporal, political and economic constraints. No formal model is capable of encapsulating the essentials of so complex an environment for closed or simulated analysis, but it is useful to have an informal framework within which to reason interactively within these dimensions.

This paper presents such a scaffolding, patterned on the notion of a military posture as the output of an economic process whose structure reflects important determinants of the characteristics and extents of weaponry and expenditures that are appropriate to the environment within the feasibility set determined by the constraints. The analysis remains at an abstract level, but it does highlight the important shifts toward preparation for littoral warfare, greater reliance on reserve rather than active forces, and necessary changes in missions among military departments.     

3D laser scanning strategy based on cascaded deep neural network

A 3D laser scanning strategy based on cascaded deep neural network is proposed for the scanning system converted from 2D Lidar with a pitching motion device. The strategy is aimed at moving target detection and monitoring. Combining the device characteristics, the strategy first proposes a cascaded deep neural network, which inputs 2D point cloud, color image and pitching angle. The outputs are target distance and speed classification. And the cross-entropy loss function of network is modified by using focal loss and uniform distribution to improve the recognition accuracy. Then a pitching range and speed model are proposed to determine pitching motion parameters. Finally, the adaptive scanning is realized by integral separate speed PID. The experimental results show that the accuracies of the improved network target detection box, distance and speed classification are 90.17%, 96.87% and 96.97%, respectively. The average speed error of the improved PID is 0.4239°/s, and the average strategy execution time is 0.1521 s. The range and speed model can effectively reduce the collection of useless information and the deformation of the target point cloud. Conclusively, the experimental of overall scanning strategy show that it can improve target point cloud integrity and density while ensuring the capture of target.     

解析法计算机载布撒器对单条跑道的最佳封锁策略

机载布撒器是一种先进的面覆盖式武器系统,其带状毁伤区域能有效地破坏和封锁敌方机场跑道.根据采用下抛方案的机载布撒器攻击机场跑道的工作原理,以3a为必然事件的原则,用解析的方法计算布撒器对单条机场跑道的最佳封锁策略,包括布撒器对跑道的攻击角度、所需投放的布撒器数目以及各瞄准点坐标的确定,给出了具体的算例.这种方法计算速度快,精度高,对布撒器的总体设计、作战效能分析和作战指挥都具有重要的参考价值.     

高超声速飞行器倾侧转弯耦合控制策略

针对高超声速飞行器倾侧转弯过程中俯仰、偏航和滚动通道间的强烈耦合,提出一种耦合控制策略。针对高超声速飞行器快时变、非线性和强不确定性的控制问题,基于解析形式的非线性最优预测控制方法,采用分层设计思想设计了飞行器姿态控制系统,可较好满足高超声速飞行器的快速性要求;在分析了倾侧转弯飞行控制过程的主要影响因素及其影响规律的基础上,提出一种"降低攻角—快速滚转—拉起攻角"的耦合控制策略。对该控制策略对于高超声速飞行器的适用性进行了仿真分析,结果表明:所提耦合控制策略有效降低了偏航通道的控制需求,降低了倾侧转弯控制过程的失控风险,提高了控制系统的可靠性。     

适用于临近空间飞行器大变形的动网格策略

对于超大展弦比构型的低速临近空间飞行器而言,由于其在飞行过程中结构变形非常显著,因此基于计算流体力学的分析方法对于动网格提出了非常高的要求。为此,提出了一种适用于边界大变形的动网格策略,该种动网格基于映射的思想,将边界网格的位置变化以某种权重反映到流场网格,并更新网格节点位置。选取距离倒数的n次方作为权重,研究不同的权重指数n对网格变形的影响规律,然后开展了二维与三维动网格实例分析。结果表明,这种动网格方法能够很好地适用于大变形的情形,并能很好地保证变形后的网格质量。     

一种适用于临近空间飞行器大变形的动网格策略*(专题约稿)

对于超大展弦比构型的低速临近空间飞行器而言,在飞行过程中结构变形非常显著,基于计算流体力学的分析方法对于动网格提出了非常高的要求。本文提出一种适用于边界大变形的动网格策略,该种动网格基于映射的思想,将边界网格的位置变化以某种权重反映到流场网格,并更新网格节点位置。文章选取距离倒数的n次方作为权重,首先研究了不同的权重指数n对网格变形的影响规律,然后开展了二维与三维动网格实例分析。结果表明,这种动网格方法能够很好的适用于大变形的情形,并能很好的保证变形后的网格质量。     

应急器材柔性采购定价建模与求解

由于当前应急器材储备依然存在“多储”或“少储”风险,为提高储备效益,以企业经济效益与军队采购成本为优化目标,提出了应急器材柔性采购策略。通过建立企业储备策略与军队采购定价最优化模型,求解得到了在不同战争爆发概率及器材现货市场价格区间等外部环境因素下的军队最佳柔性定价及对应的企业最优储备策略,并通过实例分析验证了得出的决策结论。结果表明,最优策略的实施将有利于军队与企业共担应急器材数量储备风险。