Size Still Matters: Explaining Sri Lanka’s Counterinsurgency Victory over the Tamil Tigers

The military effectiveness literature has largely dismissed the role of material preponderance in favor of strategic interaction theories. The study of counterinsurgency, in which incumbent victory is increasingly rare despite material superiority, has also turned to other strategic dynamics explanations like force employment, leadership, and insurgent/adversary attributes. Challenging these two trends, this paper contends that even in cases of counterinsurgency, material preponderance remains an essential—and at times the most important—factor in explaining battlefield outcomes and effectiveness. To test this, the paper turns to the case of the Sri Lankan state’s fight against the Tamil Tiger insurgency, a conflict which offers rich variation over time across six periods and over 25 years. Drawing on evidence from historical and journalistic accounts, interviews, memoirs, and field research, the paper demonstrates that material preponderance accounts for variation in military effectiveness and campaign outcomes (including military victory in the final campaign) better than strategic explanations. Additionally, a new quantitative data-set assembled on annual loss-exchange ratios demonstrates the superiority of materialist explanations above those of skill, human capital, and regime type.     

Brinkmanship,not COIN,in Pakistan’s post-9/11 Internal War

Politics is critical to making sense of Pakistani successes and failures in dealing with non-state armed groups. This includes domestic political currents; regional political currents; and the global impetus of the post-9/11 era. How these currents overlap renders to any reading of insurgency in Pakistan real complexity. This article engages with this complexity rather than shirking from it. Its hypothesis is that while the insurgency bordering Afghanistan has been an epicentre of Pakistani military efforts to fight the Taliban, this theatre is in of itself insufficiently inclusive to grasp the nature of Pakistan’s security challenges and its consequent responses.     

Collecting Oriental and Asiatic Arms and Armour: The Activities of British and East India Company Officers,c.1800-1850

During the first half of the 19th century substantial quantities of Oriental and Asiatic arms and armour first began to appear in Britain. On the one hand they certainly reflected the expansion of empire but their wider significance has yet to be discussed. This article seeks to address that omission by exploring the growth of interest in these objects within military circles, what they represented to the individuals who acquired them, and how they fitted into the wider collecting strategies of military officers as a group.     

一种新的高分辨率SAR图像目标自动鉴别方法

目标鉴别是SAR图像目标识别系统的关键环节,用以消除预筛选阶段因异常检测产生的大量虚假的感兴趣区域切片。针对目标鉴别问题,提出了一种新的目标自动鉴别方法,首先对CFAR检测的结果做基于面积特征的预鉴别处理,而后对获得的ROI目标切片提取鉴别特征,并在特征分析的基础上设定特征判决阈值,实现序贯鉴别处理。利用X波段SAR图像数据检验了上述方法,给出了鉴别输出的ROI切片。     

我国西部矿产资源可持续发展利用研究

我国西部矿产资源丰富,矿产资源开发利用中存在的问题,提出了西部矿产资源可持续开发利用的正确途径.     

一类广义二重积分

首先利用一个收敛级数构造了R上的一个特殊开集G,然后利用平面点集可求面积的充要条件,在平面上引入了一个有界的不可求面积的积分区域Ω,最后在Ω上定义了一个取正值的分段函数,并证明了其在Ω上的广义二重积分存在。     

西部贫困地区农村中小学信息技术教育研究

西部贫困地区农村中小学信息技术教育存在哪些问题,如何解决发展中遇到的难题、进一步促进其发展,这是我们提高西部贫困地区农村教育质量和人口素质关键所在。     

舰载通信对抗系统战术运用研究

舰载通信对抗系统对敌目标实施通信干扰是海战场夺取制信息权的重要手段。运用电波传播理论、干扰方程、海军战术等理论,给出了舰载通信干扰压制区和有效作用范围的确定和计算方法及干扰舰的阵位配置,干扰目标(通信网)和时机的优选原则,为舰载通信对抗系统战术运用提供了理论依据,较好地满足了舰载通信对抗系统的作战需求。     

BDS和GPS导航系统亚太地区定位性能分析

通过仿真在轨的北斗卫星和GPS卫星,利用STK覆盖功能分析北斗、GPS和北斗/GPS组合导航系统在亚太地区的定位性能,并比较北斗/GPS组合卫星导航系统与单系统相比的优势。仿真结果表明北斗/GPS组合卫星导航系统在亚太地区有更好的可用性,能提供更高精度的导航定位服务。     

22 nm全耗尽型绝缘体上硅器件单粒子瞬态效应的敏感区域

基于3D-TCAD模拟,研究了22 nm全耗尽型绝缘体上硅(fully depleted silicon-on-insulator,FDSOI)器件单粒子瞬态(single-event transient,SET)效应的敏感性区域。对比了使用单管和使用反相器来研究器件SET敏感性区域的方法,从而分析实际电路中重离子轰击位置对22 nm FDSOI器件SET敏感性的影响,并从电荷收集机制的角度进行了解释。深入分析发现寄生双极放大效应对重粒子轰击位置敏感是造成器件不同区域SET敏感性不同的原因。而单管漏极接恒压源造成漏极敏感性增强是导致单管与反相器中器件SET敏感区域不同的原因。修正了FDSOI工艺下器件SET敏感性区域的研究方法,与单管相比,采用反相器进行仿真,结果更符合实际情况,这将为器件SET加固提供理论指导。