Counterinsurgency or irregular warfare? Historiography and the study of ‘small wars’

This article argues that the history of irregular warfare provides a valuable analytical and critical perspective for the study of counterinsurgency campaigns and counterinsurgency doctrine. A focus on the history of irregular warfare highlights the close relationship between warfare in Europe and in the colonies. Moreover, it enables us to identify more exactly the intersection of multiple factors that lead to an escalation of violence in small wars. Finally, it also sheds light on the lack of strategic reflection on the use of irregular auxiliaries that is characteristic for many counterinsurgency campaigns.     

The German wars of liberation 1807–1815: The restrained insurgency

In the Age of Napoleon, ‘small wars’ and ‘revolutionary war’ were closely connected. There were, however, different strands of this phenomenon: speaking professionally, conservative officers condemned small wars as an irregular regression to previous less disciplined forms of warfare. The Prussian state continually tried to discipline and regulate spontaneous risings. Yet the irregular character of small wars offered the opportunities for a less complex way of fighting, thus enabling the arming of the ‘people’ to fight. Individual undertakings, such as Ferdinand von Schill's doomed campaign in 1809, were designed to spark off a general popular uprising. But they were cheered by many and supported by few. Meanwhile, Neidhardt von Gneisenau conceived guerrilla-style Landsturm home-defence forces, which were designed for an irregular people's war. These concepts were put into practice in the ‘war of freedom’ – or ‘war of liberation’ – in 1813. Eventually both the mobilisation and the tactics remained regular, however, despite the emphatic appeal to a national ‘people's war’.     

基于开放环境的P2P网络主动型蠕虫传播模型

P2P网络主动型蠕虫采用主动扫描邻居节点信息的策略,能在短时间内破坏整个P2P网络,成为网络信息系统最为严重的安全威胁。结合主动型蠕虫的传播特点,考虑开放的P2P网络环境对蠕虫传播的影响,弥补现有模型忽略P2P网络动态性的不足,建立了基于开放环境的P2P网络蠕虫传播模型。与双因素模型相比较,该模型能更客观地反映现实网络中蠕虫的传播情况,在此基础上从初始已感染主机数、感染率、免疫率3方面定量分析了蠕虫的传播规律。仿真结果表明,感染率和免疫率是影响蠕虫传播的关键因素。     

基于相似系统理论的训练电磁环境逼真度评估＊

针对训练电磁环境逼真度评估这一技术难题,基于相似系统理论,对训练电磁环境逼真度评估的基本认识和总体考虑进行分析,明确了训练电磁环境逼真度评估的基本步骤,提出了三种类型相似元关键特征比例系数的确定方法,结合实例简单演示了计算相似元值的基本过程。     

C4ISR系统仿真测试技术

网络化扩大了C4ISR系统的边界,赋予了系统更多的资源、更强的能力和灵活性,但也给C4ISR系统研究、开发和测试评估等带来了困难。有必要研究设计适应网络化C4ISR系统的仿真测试技术,为网络化C4ISR系统的总体设计、核心能力测试与评估提供技术支撑。本文基于网络中心化仿真的技术体制,设计了C4ISR系统仿真测试环境的系统体系结构,给出系统运行模式,并详述了仿真模型描述规范、信息按需分发与共享、仿真模型开发等系统建设中的关键技术问题。研究成果已在实际仿真测试环境开发中得到应用。     

现代反恐怖作战反游击战理论初探

世纪之交 ,美俄等军队进行的几场反恐怖战争 ,其对手在处于劣势时 ,通常以游击战术与之对抗。因此 ,美俄军队在反恐怖作战中 ,也运用反游击战手段反制恐怖武装 ,其高技术条件下的反游击战战略战术对取得战争胜利起到了至关重要的作用。     

电子战环境中防空武器抗击能力分析

以电子战环境为作战背景,具体分析了敌军实施电子战的作战样式,并用模糊数学的方法对其进行了量化评估,在此基础上对一般的防空武器抗击能力模型进行了完善,建立了评价防空武器在电子战环境中抗击能力的模型。     

导航对抗技术分析

从信息对抗的角度来看,导航战是指对立双方为争夺导航信息的控制权而展开的斗争。从进攻与防御两方面探讨了导航战对相关技术的需求。     

未成年人德育环境优化

环境可以育人,良好的德育环境对未成年人的思想道德教育起着十分重要的作用。本文结合未成年人的特点,从学校德育环境、家庭德育环境和社会德育环境三方面,就如何优化德育环境,提高未成年人道德教育的实效性,促进未成年人健康成长做点探索。     

海洋战场环境虚拟仿真研究与应用

系统介绍了台湾海军虚拟海洋环境模拟系统中的“海底景观显示系统”主要组成及其功能,分析了国内外海洋环境仿真研究的发展动态,结合院校信息化教学建设工程提出了若干思考和建议。