Deterrence Beyond Downunder: Australia and US Security Guarantees since 1955

ABSTRACT

From 1944 to 1973 Australia attempted to acquire atomic weaponry. This ambition was driven by the desire to contribute to defending British interests in Asia, fears of invasion by China, Indonesia, and Japan, great-power war, and the belief that nuclear weapons were merely bigger and better conventional weapons, that they would proliferate, and that US security assurances lacked credibility. Although the pursuit of the bomb was eventually abandoned, this was not the result of US assurances. Rather, geopolitical changes in Australia’s environment meant that a major attack on the continent was unlikely to occur outside the context of a confrontation between the US, China, and the Soviet Union. This article argues that Australia may soon have to rethink its policies towards US extended deterrence and instead focus on developing its own deterrent.     

一种BP神经网络算法的改进模型

首先对BP网络的结构和算法进行了分析,针对BP网络收敛速度慢,容易陷入局部极小等问题,提出了一种改进的BP网络模型,并对该模型算法进行了改进,通过激活函数的选择,网络的初始化,学习率的调整和训练样本数据的处理等方法,可实现加快网络的收敛速度,并且较好的解决局部最优问题.     

Democratic control of Romanian intelligence after three decades: quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

ABSTRACT

Romania faced one of the most dramatic transitions from authoritarian communism to become a democracy and a member of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU). The backbone of building a democratic society has been civilian control of the military. This article briefly describes the norms and institutions of democratic control of the intelligence services in Romania and assesses how the mechanisms of democratic control have worked in practice after almost three decades of reform. We argue that many of the post-1989 reforms have been only superficial implemented and monitored, particularly after Romania joined NATO and the EU. The article concludes that the democratic control of intelligence in Romania is an unfinished business. There are structural shortcomings embedded in the process of democracy consolidation that need to be addressed.     

Operational idealism: doctrine development of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army under Soviet threat, 1969–1989

This article analyses the doctrine development of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) coping with the Soviet military threat between 1969 and 1989. In the 1970s, the PLA applied a doctrine of ‘active defence and luring the enemy into depth’ based on its traditional operational art. In 1980, the PLA decided to focus its doctrine on positional defence. In 1986, the PLA introduced ‘integrated operations and prioritised strike’, a generalised doctrine that originated from its war history. Many organisational and intellectual challenges in peacetime doctrine development contributed to the PLA’s operational idealism, including its aging leadership, command structure, attitude towards its previous experience, limited analysis of contemporary military developments, and failure in test and validation of doctrines. In the post-Cold War decade, many of these challenges persisted in spite of military modernization efforts. The ongoing military reform has to address these challenges and improve the PLA doctrine development in peacetime.     

Too much Western bias? The need for a more culturally adaptable approach to post-conflict security sector reform

The existing guidelines for security sector reform (SSR) tend to draw on theoretical work in the field of civil–military relations, which in turn has been derived from Western, liberal democratic models of governance. Although guidelines strongly advise that local culture and context need to be considered when drawing up objectives for post-conflict SSR programmes, this is not often reflected in practice. This article considers some of the reasons for this, citing both in-country challenges and donor-related issues, and suggests that one of the biggest problems is a lack of alternative, non-orthodox models of civil–military relations to draw upon. It is further suggested that elements of suitable alternative models may be found in states which possess political structures not entirely dissimilar to the Western, liberal democratic ideal, but which can offer different perspectives. Detailed research of these structures should produce a pool of sub-models which could then be employed to create bespoke, culturally appropriate objectives for use in post-conflict SSR programmes.     

高分辨率UAV SAR的三维运动误差分离与补偿

在基于SAR回波的数据处理中,多普勒调频率具有很高的估计精度且对场景的依赖性很小,可以更广泛地用于自聚焦处理。基于多普勒调频率参数估计,针对回波包络及相位分别提出了误差提取模型,并通过包络误差校正和相位误差补偿两个步骤实现了高精度的运动补偿处理。实测数据表明,本文方法可以在低精度导航信息情况下获取高分辨率雷达图像。     

箱式屏蔽效能测试方法及影响因素分析

为测试强电磁场作用下材料的屏蔽效能,基于屏蔽材料的屏蔽原理,提出一种在GTEM室内置屏蔽箱测试材料屏蔽效能的新方法,构建实验平台,仿真分析屏蔽箱窗口尺寸及测试探头位置对测试结果的影响．实验结果表明：测试窗口大小和测试位置对测试材料的屏蔽效能有影响．其主要影响因素是屏蔽效能的测试频率下限,并确定了0．6m×0．6m窗口的测试频率下限为55MHz,0．3m×0．3m测试窗口的测试频率下限为250MHz．     

磁悬挂天平五自由度位置传感器的数学分析

磁悬挂平天的位置传感器具有一定的特殊性,它需要同时获取被悬挂的飞行器模型的多自由度位置分量。本文对这一问题进行了研究,并讨论了其工程实现问题。     

燃料电池AIP废气处理方案优选模型研究

对潜艇300 kW燃料电池几种可行的气体处理方案进行了对比分析,并运用模糊综合评判方法建立了方案优选模型.研究表明,应用旋转床吸收器吸收废气中的二氧化碳,并配以相应的水处理系统,将二氧化碳排至舷外的方案是最佳方案.     

适用于共架武器的通用筒弹模拟系统应用研究

针对通用发控单元的维护需求和共架武器系统的训练需求,设计了通用筒弹模拟系统.该系统通过1553B总线与通用发控单元通信,实现了筒弹功能模拟和筒弹故障模拟.经测试,该系统运行稳定可靠,各项功能满足设计指标.