Moving the techno-science gap in Security Force Assistance

This paper looks at the impact of military technology diffusion on military assistance operations (MAO), in the United States known as Security Force Assistance or SFA. The discussion looks conceptually at the role of technological change and how it interacts with martial cultures in military assistant operations. I argue that growing trends in science and technology suggest potential conflicts between culture and technology. Relying on a culture-technology model drawn from anthropology, the paper contends that new technologies will present increasing challenges for the emerging MAO landscape. The paper will illustrate that the techno-science gap will continue to grow as innovations such as robotics, sensors, and networks continue to develop. Finally, the paper will look at ways to overcome this conflict between culture and technology.     

Counterinsurgency as armed reform: The political history of the Malayan Emergency

Despite the emphasis in doctrine and academia that counterinsurgency is in its essence political, these operations are all too commonly discussed and approached as primarily military endeavors. Informed by the need to refocus counterinsurgency studies, this article revisits a foundational case of the canon – the Malayan Emergency – to discuss its political (i.e., not military) unfolding. The analysis distinguishes itself by emphasizing the diplomatic processes, negotiations, and deals that gave strategic meaning to the military operations underway. In so doing, the article also generates insight on the use of leverage and elite bargains in creating new political settlements and bringing insurgent conflicts to an end.     

叶飞与海军真理标准问题讨论"补课"

1978年,全国普遍开展了关于真理标准问题的大讨论,解放了人们的思想,为十一届三中全会的召开和国家政策调整奠定了思想基础。但由于多方面的原因,有些单位没有参加这场大讨论,海军就是其中之一。在第一政治委员、党委书记叶飞的主持下,海军进行了真理标准问题讨论的“补课”,并和“质量、技术、安全大检查”结合起来,为调整、修改海军发展规划奠定了坚实的基础。人民海军的历史从此翻开了新的一页。     

论人品官德修养

加强人品官德修养,是实现全面建设小康社会宏伟目标的需要,保持党的先进性和提高党的执政能力的需要,保持部队政治坚定性和思想道德纯洁性的需要,充实精神生活以实现人的全面发展的需要;加强人品官德修养,重在养成忠诚、为民、务实、公正、廉洁、友善的品德;自觉把人品官德修养落实渗透到学习工作生活的方方面面,学以养德、行以立德、律以护德、慎以全德.     

Netwar Revisited: The Fight for the Future Continues

This work continues to develop the 'netwar' concept that the authors introduced in 1993 and have expanded upon in their various RAND and other writings ever since. Deeper understanding of the nature, strengths and vulnerabilities of networks will prove useful in combating terrorism and transnational crime, but also in understanding militant social activism, both of the violently disruptive sort and that which aims at fostering the rise of a global civil society. This essay also assesses recent US performance in the terror war, and concludes by raising concerns over the possible rise of a new form of network-based fascism.     

外军舰炮制导炮弹发展现状及对我军的启示

高新技术的发展和未来海战模式的变化对舰炮武器的发展提出了更高的要求,发展舰炮制导炮弹是适应21世纪海上高技术局部战争的需要。本文介绍了舰炮制导炮弹的定义和特点,介绍了外军舰炮制导炮弹发展现状,探讨了外军舰炮制导炮弹发展动向对我军的启示。     

1949年中国共产党成功接管南京的历史过程及启示

1949年南京解放前后曾经历了近一年时间的接管期.这一历程可分为"迎接南京解放的斗争"和"全面实施接管"两个阶段.中国共产党对南京的成功接管,具有5个鲜明特点,充分揭示出一致律、结合律、协调律、适应律和互促律等"五律",对当今经济社会发展仍有借鉴意义.