支座弹性对压杆临界荷载的影响

在考虑支座弹性的情况下 ,研究了几种常见的压杆结构 ,推导出了计算临界荷载的方程式 ,给出了以稳定系数表示的临界压力的简明表达式及稳定系数列表。由于考虑了支座弹性 ,使本文提出的方法更具有一般意义和工程价值。     

基于主成分分析法的作战部队信息化水平评估研究

为了客观准确地评估各作战部队的信息化水平,针对目前作战部队信息化发展建设水平评估方法难、评估指标体系变量多的特点,依据建立的评估指标体系,运用主成分分析法的基本思想,建立数学模型,列出分析步骤,计算各作战部队信息化水平的主成分,通过对主成分进行选择,综合得出新的评估指标变量,实现了更加快捷、直观地对作战部队信息化水平进行评估,有利于正确引导军队信息化建设的方向。     

A nation-in-the-making,in arms: control of force,strategy and the Ukrainian Volunteer Battalions

At the core of waging war and strategy is the creation, control and use of force. This article investigates the volunteer battalions that mobilized in Ukraine during the spring of 2014. It contextualizes the volunteer phenomenon and focuses on the state strategies to establish control over these militias. As ambiguous entities arising from a situation characterized by rapid social change – revolution and war – the volunteer battalions threatened existing hierarchies and questioned state authority. The situation was exacerbated by the war, which deviated from the expectations of Ukrainian combatants and Western military observers alike. The state nevertheless enjoyed a modicum of success in reining in the militias through four strategies of undermining, co-option, incorporation and coercion. While predominantly integrated into a more rigid category of paramilitary forces, the volunteers continue to play a role in both the Ukrainian society and security sector to the unforeseeable future.     

The ‘first’ surge: the repulse of the Easter Invasion in South Vietnam, 1972 – implications for Iraq and Afghanistan

In a military intervention, do surges work? I compare the failed ‘surge’ in Vietnam, the repulse of the Easter Invasion in 1972, as a means of assessing the more ambiguous surges in Iraq and Afghanistan. I identify four features of a surge for this analysis: the military dimensions and strategy of the surging forces, the military capabilities of the host forces, the political vitality and will of the host country, and the political commitment in the domestic politics of the intervener. I find that the last feature is the most critical; and, in all three surges, the American political commitment was lacking.