Landmarks in defense literature

Deterrence and strategy. By Andre Beaufre (translated by Maj Gen R. H. Barry CB). Faber & Faber, London (1965)     

Landmarks in defense literature

Strategy: The Indirect Approach. By B. H. Liddell Hart. London: Faber and Faber (1954)     

Book Reviews

The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy by Peter Hounam and Steve McQuillan, London: Faber and Faber, (1995)

The Amateur Strategist: Intuitive Deterrence Theories and the Politics of the Nuclear Arms Race By James DeNardo, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1995), (pbk) ISBN 0-521-48446-4

After Empire: The Emerging Geopolitics of Central Asia By Jed C. Snyder (ed.), Washington DC: National Defense University Press, (1995), 235 pp., ISBN 0-16-051682-x.     

Book reviews

Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military. By Stephen Peter Rosen. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, Cornell University Press, New York (1991), ISBN 0-8014-2566-5. Price £40.00

Post-Military Society. By Martin Shaw. Polity Press, Cambridge (1991), ISBN 0-7456-01987 (hardback) £35.00,0-7456-01995 (paperback) £11.95

Big Boys' Rules—The Secret War Against the IRA. By Mark Urban. Faber and Faber, London (1992), ISBN 0-571-16112-X, £14.99     

Book reviews

Managing International Conflict, From Theory to Practice: a Teaching Tool Using CASCON by Lincoln P. Bloomfield and Allen Moulton, New York: St Martin's Press, 1997, ISBN 0-312-13675-7 (pbk), £18.99.

The American Century: the Rise and Decline of the United States as a World Power by Donald W. White, London: Yale University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-300-05721-0 (hbk), £25.

Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary Conflict by Oliver Ramsbotham and Tom Woodhouse, Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996.

The US Military/NGO Relationship in Humanitarian Interventions by Chris Seiple, Peacekeeping Institute, Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College, 1996.

Uncivil Wars: International Security and the New Internal Conflicts by Donald M. Snow, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996, ISBN 1-55587-655-2 (pbk), £15.50, ISBN 1-55587-648-X (hbk), £33.50.

Intelligence Power in Peace and War by Michael Herman, Royal Institute for International Affairs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-521-56231-7 (hbk), £50, ISBN 0-521-56636 (pbk), £16.95.

UK Eyes Alpha: Inside British Intelligence by Mark Urban, London: Faber and Faber, 1996, ISBN 0-571-17689-5 (hbk), £16.99.

New Cloak, Old Dagger by Michael Smith, London: Victor Gollancz, 1996, ISBN 0-575-06150-2 (hbk), £20.

Conversion Survey 1997: Global Disarmament and Disposal of Surplus Weapons by Bonn International Center for Conversion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996: World Inventories, Capabilities and Policies by David Albright, Frans Berkhout and William Walker, Oxford: SIPRI and Oxford University Press, 1997.

The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze by Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl and Melvin A. Goodman, University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997.     

Italian military efficiency: A debate

Allan R. Millett and Peter Maslowski, For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America. New York and London: Free Press and Macmillan, 1984, 1986. Pp.xiv + 621; $24.95.

Ian F. W. Beckett, The Army and the Curragh Incident, 1914. London: Bodley Head for The Army Records Society, 1986. Pp.xii + 456; £20.

Martin van Creveld, Command in War. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. 339. £18.25 and £8.75 (paperback).

Charles Townshend, Britain's Civil Wars: Counterinsurgency in the Twentieth Century. London: Faber &; Faber, 1986. Pp. 220; £14.95.

Eliot A. Cohen, Citizens and Soldiers: The Dilemmas of Military Service. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp.227; $22.50.

Alberto R. Coll and Anthony C. Arend (eds.), The Falkland's War: Lessons for Strategy, Diplomacy and International Law. London and Boston, MA: George Allen &; Unwin, 1985. Pp.xiv + 252. £18 and £7.95 (paperback).

Barry M. Blechman and William J. Lynn (eds.), Towards a More Effective Defense. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing, 1985. Pp.xiii + 247; NP.

Jonathan B. Stein, From H‐Bomb to Star Wars: The Politics of Strategic Decision‐Making. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books and Aldershot, Hants: Gower, 1985. Pp.xiii + 118; £20.

Samuel P. Huntington (ed.), The Strategic Imperative: New Policies for American Security. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing, 1982. Pp.360; NP.

Stephanie G. Neuman, Military Assistance in Recent Wars: The Dominance of the Superpowers (The Washington Papers 122). Washington, DC and New York: The Center for Strategic and International Studies and Praeger Publishers, 1986. Pp. viii + 186; $10.95 (paperback).

Stanley R. Sloan, NATO's Future: Towards a New Transatlantic Bargain. London: Macmillan, 1986. Pp. xix + 194. Appendices; index. £27.50.

Hugh Stringer, Deterring Chemical Warfare: US Policy Options for the 1990s. Cambridge, MA: Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, 1986. Pp.xii + 76. NP.

Julian Perry Robinson (ed.), The Chemical Industry and the Projected Chemical Weapons Convention, Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press for Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Chemical &; Biological Warfare Studies, No.4), 1986. Pp.xix + 147. £12.50.

Julian Perry Robinson (ed.), The Chemical Industry and the Projected Chemical Weapons Convention, Vol.2. Oxford: Oxford University Press for Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Chemical &; Biological Warfare Studies, No. 5), 1986. Pp.xix + 233. £12.50.

Keith B. Payne, Strategic Defense: ‘Star Wars’ in Perspective. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Press, 1986. Pp. xviii + 250. $20.95 (hardback); $9.95 (paper).

Bhupendra Jasani (ed.), Space Weapons: The Arms Control Dilemma. Stockholm: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (London &; Philadelphia), 1984. Pp.xiv + 255. £18. Distributed by Taylor &; Francis.

P. Edward Haley, David M. Kethly, and Jack Merritt (eds.), Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, and the Future. Boulder, Co and London: Westview Press, 1985. Pp.xxii + 372. £15.95.     

基于程序切片的电路提取技术

从HDL设计描述中提取电路在VLSI设计验证、低功耗分析、测试生成等方面有广泛的应用需求。提出了一种采用程序切片技术实现的新的电路提取方法,并深入论述了基于程序切片技术从Verilog描述中进行电路提取的理论基础。该方法可以为每一个感兴趣的信号获取其"链接切片"。与以前的方法相比,该方法的优点是细粒度的、不受书写格式的限制,并且能处理更多Verilog的语法元素。该方法已经被集成到现有设计流程中,实验结果表明其方便、高效,有良好的通用性。     

基于窗口预测匹配的序列图像点目标轨迹检测算法

序列图像中运动点目标轨迹的实时检测算法,是目标识别、实时跟踪处理系统中的关键算法之一。在分析不同层次处理方法的基础上,给出了一种基于预测、窗口匹配的点轨迹预测—匹配检测算法,并根据仿真实验的效果,指出此算法可有效地对低信噪比序列图像运动点目标轨迹进行实时检测,具有多目标轨迹检测能力。     

聚亚苯基硼的合成及表征研究

用改进的有机金属路线合成了聚对亚苯基硼和聚间亚苯基硼。聚对亚苯基硼的分子量（Ｍｎ）为７８３．６６,结构为（１）（可溶于乙醚,苯环为对位取代）和（２）（不溶于乙醚,苯环对位取代）;聚间亚苯基硼的Ｍｎ为８７６．５６,结构为（１）（可溶于乙醚,苯环间位取代）和（２）（不溶于乙醚,苯环间位取代）。     

Study of nano-nitramine explosives: preparation,sensitivity and application

Nano-nitramine explosives (RDX, HMX, CL-20) are produced on a bi-directional grinding mill. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations show that the prepared particles are semi-spherical, and the narrow size distributions are characterized using the laser particle size analyzer. Compared with the micron-sized samples, the nano-products show obvious decrease in friction and impact sensitivities. In the case of shock sensitivities, nano-products have lower values by 59.9% (RDX), 56.4% (HMX), and 58.1% (CL-20), respectively. When nano-RDX and nano-HMX are used in plastic bonded explosives (PBX) as alternative materials of micron-sized particles, their shock sensitivities are significantly decreased by 24.5% (RDX) and 22.9% (HMX), and their detonation velocities are increased by about 1.7%. Therefore, it is expected to promote the application of nano-nitramine explosives in PBXs and composite modified double-based propellants (CMDBs) so that some of their properties would be improved.     

Transnational policing: preemption and deterrence against elusive perpetrators

Why does a state directly police certain kinds of transnational perpetrators by itself while indirectly policing other kinds through their host government? To address this question, we develop a formal model, where Defender chooses either to police Perpetrators or to make Proxy do so. According to our theory, the delegation of policing can enhance its effectiveness in light of Proxy’s three advantages: (a) Proxy can convince Perpetrators of punishments more credibly than Defender (communicative advantage); (b) Proxy is more likely to identify Perpetrators and detect what they hold dear (informational advantage); (c) Proxy can cripple and punish Perpetrators more effectively (offensive advantage). On the other hand, the delegation may cause inefficiency if Defender has limited information about Proxy’s choice or cost of policing. Depending on the relative size between these advantages and disadvantages, one of the following four forms of policing may emerge: (i) Defender polices Perpetrators on her own (e.g. Somali counter-piracy operations); (ii) Defender induces Proxy to police Perpetrators (U.S. War on Drugs in Colombia and Mexico); (iii) Defender and Proxy together police Perpetrators (Operation Inherent Resolve); (iv) two or more Defender-Proxy states police Perpetrators in each’s own domain (Interpol, Budapest Convention).     

无人机使用助力现代联合登岛(礁)作战

无人机已经广泛使用军事领域各个方面,但就其助力现代联合登岛(礁)作战,还少有研究。本文从无人机助力联合登岛(礁)作战特性分析、具体表现和实现途径三个方面进行了探讨,以期对现代联合登岛(礁)作战有所借鉴和帮助。     

网络图式通用装备保障文书生成的研究

网络图式军用文书是战时通用装备保障文书中通常采用的文书形式之一,给出装备保障文书辅助生成系统的总体结构,将网络分析方法引入通用装备保障文书辅助生成系统的研究,在此基础上阐述了网络图式文书生成子系统的功能、数学模型及网络计算、网络优化的部分算法。     

A Dangerous Method: How Mali Lost Control of the North,and Learned to Stop Worrying

Abstract

This article analyses changes and failures in the northern Mali system of security governance, taking into account the period running from the declaration of the Malian Third Republic (1992) to the present. Considering northern Mali as an area of limited statehood, the article develops a comparative diachronic analysis, distinguishing between three phases, namely Militiarisation (1992–2002), Fragmentation (2002–2012) and Multiplication (2013–ongoing). For every phase the focus is on (1) the mechanisms of coordination among actors, (2) the distribution of coercive capacities and ruling power and (3) the forms of authority. Unintended consequences and collective problems are highlighted, in order to understand the current situation of insecurity in the area.     

邻频干扰对跳频GMSK接收机的性能影响分析

在考虑跳频系统中系统用户数、可用频点数、信道参数和环境噪声因素的条件下,重点研究邻频干扰(ACI)对跳频系统典型GMSK接收机误码率(BER)性能的影响。研究了GMSK非相干平方律接收结构和包络检波接收结构,通过分析接收信号经过各接收单元的变化,得出判决信号的解析表达式;通过分析判决信号的概率密度函数和特征函数,推导得出跳频系统在ACI影响下的系统BER公式。仿真结果表明,该理论能够评估ACI对跳频系统典型GMSK接收机的BER性能影响。     

基于扩展时空距离度量的连续k近邻查询方法

针对基于TPR树索引的连续k近邻查询,引入了一种新的时空距离度量最小最大距离函数作为TPR树索引搜索时节点剪枝上界。提出了一种采用最优优先策略的基于扩展时空距离度量的连续k近邻查询STM-CNN算法,利用最小距离函数进行TPR树索引节点搜索时访问排序,并使用最小最大距离函数对TPR树索引进行剪枝界定。     

虚拟场景中的碰撞检测算法

综述了当前出现的虚拟场景中的各种碰撞检测算法。重点对包围盒层次法中的轴向包围盒法(AABB)、方向包围盒法(OBB)、离散方向多面体法(K-DOPs)的检测原理和检测效率进行了分析比较。得出的主要结论是:包围盒层次法应用极为广泛,检测效率取决于对包围盒的选取。K-DOPs是介于AABBs和凸包之间的包围盒,只要合理地选取平行平面对的个数和方向,就可以在碰撞检测的简单性和包裹物体的紧密性之间取得较好的折衷。     

Performances of the defense industrial base in France: the role of small and medium enterprises

This paper employs an economic and statistical approach to get an overview of the defense industrial base (DIB) in France. It allows us to identify its main characteristics and to measure the role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). An original data-set was built, thanks to the information from the Ministry of Defense (MOD), the French Customs Central and National Administration, the Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and all the most relevant organizations specialized in the development, production or maintenance, repair, and overhaul of military goods in France. Overall, the DIB turns out as being composed of about 1800 enterprises in France (subcontractors included), of which three-third are SMEs. Along with high market concentration ratios, these enterprises are characterized by a significant military/civil duality, high labor productivity rates, and intensity in Research and Development.     

Minimal forecast horizons in equipment replacement models with multiple technologies and general switching costs

This article considers the problem of equipment replacement in which the replacement decision at a particular time must take into account (i) the state of the existing machine in use, (ii) the available replacement alternatives at the time, (iii) the future advances in the relevant technologies with regard to the equipment under consideration, and (iv) costs of switching between different technologies. A methodology that attains minimal forecast horizons for the problem is developed. A numerical example illustrates the methodology.     

Meeting the growing safeguards burden

ABSTRACT

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) faces challenges in fulfilling its safeguards mandate as a result of an expanding safeguards burden and a relatively static budget. This dilemma has been exacerbated by the additional burdens of implementing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Iran, but would not go away if implementation of the JCPOA were to end. There are three main areas of opportunity for the Agency: (1) budgetary expansion tied to changes in staffing policies, (2) changes in safeguards approaches, and (3) technological innovation. Barriers and limitations are associated with each approach, and advancing any of them will face a difficult political environment in Vienna.