‘Mowing the Grass’: Israel’sStrategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict

‘Mowing the Grass’, Israel’s strategy in the twenty-first century against hostile non-state groups, reflects the assumption that Israel finds itself in a protracted intractable conflict. The use of force in such a conflict is not intended to attain impossible political goals, but a strategy of attrition designed primarily to debilitate the enemy capabilities. Only after showing much restraint in its military responses does Israel act forcefully to destroy the capabilities of its foes, hoping that occasional large-scale operations also have a temporary deterrent effect in order to create periods of quiet along its borders. The Israeli approach is substantively different from the current Western strategic thinking on dealing with non-state military challenges.     

The Zimbabwe people’s revolutionary army military operations in Makonde district and the attack on Salisbury’s fuel storage tanks, 1965-1979

ABSTRACT

This article analyses the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army operations in Mashonaland West province with particular reference to Makonde District during the country’s war of liberation. Despite the growing literature on ZAPU and ZPRA in Zimbabwe’s war of liberation there is little that has been written concerning the operations of ZPRA guerrillas in Mashonaland provinces. Guided by evidence drawn from secondary and primary sources the article further asserts that ZPRA adopted a four pronged strategy in Makonde District. This strategy in part was hinged on the politicization of the population on the one hand and annihilation of the enemy forces, attrition and manoeuvre warfare on the other. Again, the article argues that ZPRA guerrillas attempted to capture Salisbury (Harare) in order to conquer the Rhodesian Security Forces’ centre of gravity. It was hoped that the capture of the capital city would Makoni District was of strategic significance to the conduct of ZPRA operations and arguably hastened Ian Smith’s decision to attend the Lancaster House Conference negotiations that led to the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980.     

美国国防部后勤转型

简要介绍了美军后勤的定义与管理构架,分析了美国国防部（DoD）后勤转型的背景和实施过程,研究了DOD后勤转型的特点,并结合军队后勤体制变革总结几点启示。     

Operational aspects of a future war between Egypt and Israel

The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt has survived since 1979. Even so, following the events in Egypt, there is a growing tension between the two states, particularly surrounding the Sinai, which could cause a crisis and even a war. In such a case, the main battlefield would be in Sinai, and there would be several dominant aspects. Some of them would appear for the first time, compared with previous wars, such as a collision between Israeli and Egyptian units of around corps size. Other aspects would be more familiar, such as the ratio between the size of the forces to that of the battlefield, the “fog of war,” night fighting, “friendly fire” and deception.     

基于NSGA-Ⅱ多目标优化的C2组织设计

把NSGA-Ⅱ算法用于求解C2组织设计问题.分析了C2组织设计常见处理算法在优化目标处理和算法流程两方面存在的问题,给出用NSGA-Ⅱ算法求解C2组织设计问题的算法设置.把NSGA-Ⅱ这样一种多目标优化算法引入C2组织设计问题,改变了以往研究此类问题时只能定义单个指标的情况,使领域专家能定义和研究新的优化目标.针对C2组织设计问题的特性做了调整后,实验结果数据表明NSGA-Ⅱ可以迅速地同时得到高质量和富有启发性的一群优化结果.     

一种基于球坐标系的四站三维时差定位算法

提出了一种在球坐标系下的无源时差定位算法,该算法解决了参变量法中难于解决的模糊和无解问题,计算量小,定位结果可信。当布站接近平面时,本算法可独立进行定位,当站址高度差较大时本算法可以与参变量法相配合解决模糊和无解问题,适合于工程应用。     

面向NCW的C~2参考模型研究

对C2系统仿真及评价而言,在网络中心战背景下构建一个良好的参考模型是目前C2领域研究中的瓶颈问题。以过程模型及MOM框架为核心构建了面向复杂网络的C2系统概念性模型框架。在构筑抽象的C2过程模型框架基础上,借鉴认知决策(RPD)模型的概念,从感知分析及参数估计、态势评估、模式匹配、行为确定四个方面对C2过程模型进行了形式化描述,同时从个体信息能力度量、个体态势感知能力度量、个体决策能力度量、个体指挥引导能力度量、信息共享能力度量、态势共享能力度量、协同决策能力度量、作战意图共享能力度量、作战意图同步能力度量9个方面对C2M OM框架进行了分析。     

Insights from a Database of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Militants

This article uses a novel database of 1,625 posthumously published biographies of members of two Islamist militant organizations (Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)), all of whom were killed in the course of carrying out militant attacks. In general, each biography provides data on the militant’s birthplace, education, recruitment, and training. The number of observations in this database is a full order of magnitude larger than those of previous databases assembled from militant biographies. While the sample of militants in this database is the product of multiple selection effects, analysis of the database undermines many common myths about Pakistani militants and casts doubt on current policy approaches to mitigating Islamist militancy in Pakistan.     

基于双特征参数解的直杆弹性动力后屈曲研究

利用差分方法求解动力后屈曲非线性方程解,研究了弹性直杆的2类轴向碰撞屈曲问题.将双特征参数解得出的含有小幅值参数的初始动力屈曲模态作为非线性后屈曲解的初始条件.理论计算的结果与文献中的实验数据达到了很好的一致,由此验证了双特征参数方法的正确性.研究结果还揭示了碰撞过程中屈曲变形扩展和发展的机理,以及轴向应力波和屈曲变形的相互作用规律.