Morts pour la France: Demographic or Economic Factors?

This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the database ‘Mémoire des hommes’, which is a record of more than 1 million French soldiers officially recognized as dead during the World War I (WWI). Integrating this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by French regional department. From this, a model identifies the factors affecting the number of deaths. While demographic factors are the principal determinants, adding significant economic, political and spatial factors reduces the unexplained variance between regions and significantly improves the explanation of the disparity in the number of deaths by region.     

基于深度强化学习的作战实体智能感知与决策研究

为解决战场上作战实体的自主感知与决策问题,构建了一种基于深度强化学习的智能感知与决策框架,主要包括态势数据预处理、态势感知、行动优化和知识库4个模块,并通过单智能体无人机突防实验验证其应用效果,为解决作战实体的自主感知与决策问题提供了一种可行的技术途径。     

美军智能化武器装备体系发展

智能化武器装备体系是军事智能化的基础和前提。智能化武器装备体系的集约高效发展,首先需做到找准定位,精准聚焦。本文针对美军的智能化武器装备体系,梳理了其发展,总结了其在各作战领域的典型作战运用,并分析了其下一步的发展趋势。     

扩展信念网络模型的军事情报检索系统设计

着眼信息化战争条件下军事情报分类、处理困难的现实,在深入分析军事情报检索系统特点基础上,提出一个基于分类的自动存储和利用查询术语同义词关系扩展信念模型的检索军事情报检索原型系统,详细描述了其存储和检索设计思路。     

指挥信息系统非线性最优化问题的混沌搜索解法

指挥信息系统进行辅助决策很多情况下是一个求解最优化问题的过程,指挥信息系统遇到的很多问题具有非线性,同时指挥信息系统对算法的适应性和收敛速度要求相当严格。对此,普通的优化技术只能求出局部最优解。基于混沌搜索技术的计算智能具有全局搜索能力强、算法简洁、计算量小、收敛速度快的特点,成为一种求解非线性最优化问题全局最优的有效方法。算例表明,当搜索次数达到一定数量时,混沌搜索方法可以保证算法收敛到全局最优解,且计算效率很高。     

谈公安边防部队信息网络建设

公安边防信息网络建设的水平是公安边防部队科技强警工作的一个重要方面。目前 ,公安边防信息网络建设和管理中还存在重建设轻管理 ,信息安全管理控制不够严密及信息网站建设和管理不规范等问题 ,必须按照公安部的有关要求 ,认真落实全国边防信息化工作会议精神 ,全面加强信息网络的规范化建设和管理 ,提高和推进公安边防部队科技强警工作的质量和水平。     

智能化边海防建设

随着新一代人工智能在军事领域的不断应用,智能化战争已经悄然来袭。边海防建设作为国防和军队建设重要一环,关系国家安全稳定。本文着眼于以人工智能为核心的新技术在边海防建设中的应用,对智能化边海防建设相关问题进行了探索研究,为边海防今后建设发展提供了理论参考依据。     

British counterinsurgency in Brunei and Sarawak, 1962–1963: developing best practices in the shadow of Malaya

This paper uses recently-released material from the ‘migrated archives’ to provide an original counterinsurgency analysis of the TNKU revolt in Brunei and Sarawak from December 1962 to May 1963. It argues that, despite a failure to act upon intelligence predicting the outbreak of insurgency, Britain developed a highly effective counterinsurgency organisation. These records also indicate that decision-makers drew inspiration from the Malayan Emergency to inform success in Brunei. Although Malaya has been challenged as a counterinsurgency paradigm, the Brunei operations show the utility of striking a balance between inappropriately copying from past campaigns and developing best practices applicable to the unique environment of Borneo. In turn, the evolution of effective operational practices in Brunei informed their successful application to the subsequent Indonesian Confrontation.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.