模糊多因素多层次评判在目标威胁度中的应用

目标威胁度评估是目标分配的重要依据,是区分目标的轻、重、缓、急为发射决策提供依据的保证。结合模糊优选理论和AHP法,以某新型地空导弹武器系统为依托,建立相应的威胁度评估模型,为火力单元级自动化作战指挥系统的目标威胁度评估提供了一种简捷有效的方法。     

基于匹配处理的纯方位目标运动分析方法

以被动声纳观测的目标方位信息为基础,将匹配处理技术用到目标运动参数纯方位估计中,建立了进行纯方位目标运动分析的匹配处理模型,给出相关的优化处理算法,并通过仿真计算验证了模型的有效性。仿真结果表明该算法在目标运动参数的收敛时间和距离等指标上有较明显改善。     

基于PSO-RBF神经网络的雷达目标识别

为提高雷达系统目标识别能力,对粒子群算法及RBF神经网络进行了分析。针对离子群算法(PSO)易陷入局部极小的缺陷,提出了基于自适应时变权重和局部搜索算子的改进PSO算法,并将该算法应用到RBF神经网络核函数参数的优化学习中,进行了雷达目标识别仿真实验。仿真结果表明,相对于标准PSO-RBF神经网络,改进算法不仅收敛速度快,且误差精度高,特别在干扰较强时,目标的识别率有较大提高。     

机器人仿真系统中动态图形的快速生成和处理

本文提出一种用于三维动态图形快速生成与处理的算法,能适应机器人实时仿真的要求。算法包括几何体定义、变换、隐藏线消除和动画技术等内容。本算法使用Turbo-Pascal语言在IBM-PC机上运行通过。     

主成因分析法在柴油机热力性能故障诊断中的应用

本文介绍了一种用于柴油机故障诊断的新方法——主成因分析法(P.C.A),它建立在柴油机故障试验的基础上。文章给出了故障诊断的建模方法并设计了柴油机诊断软件。故障诊断结果表明这种方法用于柴油机的故障诊断是可行的。     

China's Global Equity Oil Investments: Economic and Geopolitical Influences

In this article, we construct and analyze an original database of overseas Chinese equity oil investments (EOI) in order to assess the relative importance of economic and geopolitical factors in determining the type of countries that are most likely to receive those investments. We find that China's national oil companies (NOCs) choose to make considerable investments in certain oil rich countries while ignoring others. We develop and examine ‘economic opportunity’ and ‘geopolitical relevance’ explanations of Chinese EOI. The economic explanation assumes that Chinese oil companies operate autonomously despite the fact that they are state owned, and that they seek international experience in countries offering less competition but more risk. The geopolitical explanation suggests that Chinese equity oil investments are developed and coordinated by the central government as part of a geopolitical strategy that is designed to bypass the so-called ‘Malacca Dilemma’ and deepen security ties with oil-rich states through the conduct of oil diplomacy. We argue that Chinese EOI tends to reflect both corporate interests and government priorities, and that it generates more liabilities rather than benefits for China.     

The Naval Intelligence Underpinnings of Reagan's Maritime Strategy

Washington's so-called Maritime Strategy, which sought to apply US naval might against Soviet vulnerabilities on its maritime flanks, came to full fruition during the 1980s. The strategy, which witnessed a major buildup of US naval forces and aggressive exercising in seas proximate to the USSR, also explicitly targeted Moscow”s strategic missile submarines with the aim of pressuring the Kremlin during crises or the early phases of global war. Relying on a variety of interviews and newly declassified documents, the authors assert that the Maritime Strategy represents one of the rare instances in history when intelligence helped lead a nation to completely revise its concept of military operations.     

Shielding the ‘Hot Gates’: Submarine Warfare and Japanese Naval Strategy in the Cold War and Beyond (1976–2006)

The build-up of Japan's military apparatus in the 1990s and 2000s has been often regarded by security analysts as indicative of a departure from the country's Cold War strategic posture. Japan appears to be engaged in a process of militarisation that is eroding the foundations of its ‘exclusively defence-oriented’ policy. In the case of the archipelago's naval strategy, such assessments overlook the longstanding significance of a core feature of its defence policy, namely the surveillance of maritime crossroads delivering the wealth of the country. The paper reassesses the evolution of the Japanese strategy since the Cold War by examining the development of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force's submarine force, one of the key components of the defensive shield for these crossroads. The paper argues that with the changes in the security environment of the 1990s, Japan already fielded a mature force with state-of-the-art submarines, and that the rise of a new naval competitor aiming at controlling key strategic points along Japan's sea lanes reconfirmed the critical importance of submarine operations to Japanese national security.     

Past failures and future problems: the psychology of irregular war

Personal cognitive processes inform how individuals understand their environment. Cultural variation, fundamental attribution error, causal attribution, and durability bias create obstacles to Western understanding of irregular war and have created a significant institutional bias in how the US military perceives its enemies- a perception only somewhat softened after a decade of irregular war. United Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is in a better position to overcome these problems through persistent engagement. In the event of major conflict, environmentally sensitized military planners will be better able to achieve military and policy objectives.     

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.