Lessons in airpower projection: Indochina and Algeria

The lessons from the two French counterinsurgencies, Indochina and Algeria, give rise to a new understanding of the projection of airpower in remote and hostile environments and the purpose, design, and use of aircraft in counterinsurgency. In both Indochina and Algeria, the campaigns were ones of poverty, and it is their imaginative management under severe resource constraints that provides thoughtful and applicable lessons for today. In both cases, airpower held the promise of delivering victory and solving the resource issue. In Indochina, acquisition of the needed aircraft, operating knowledge, and experience came too slowly to realize this promise. In Algeria, the French embraced the lessons from Indochina and were quite successful and innovative in the use of airpower. The lessons can be reduced to four requirements: (1) a network of airfields for liaison, ground-support, and intra-theater airlift to enable effective air support of ground forces; (2) a solid, reliable, and simple ground-support aircraft capable of operating from forward airfields within range of ground engagements; (3) a capable intra-theater heavy-lift transport to supply the extended ground forces; and (4) helicopter capability to enhance tactical troop mobility and support.     

Technical and proliferation‐related aspects of the dismantlement of Russian Alfa‐Class nuclear submarines

When does a state become a “nuclear weapon state”? How we choose to answer this question has significant implications for proliferation assessment, analysis, and policy. Traditionally, the standard demarcation line has been a state's first nuclear test, but in recent years analysts have increasingly focused instead on the accumulation of a significant quantity (SQ) of fissile material. The article argues that although the test/no-test indicator clearly has problems, its replacement by the SQ/no-SQ indicator would be highly counterproductive. The article instead proposes supplementing the traditional test/no-test indicator with a theory-driven approach that focuses on the incentives and disincentives to test.     

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Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report, by Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly M. Barker. Left Coast Press, 2008. 296 pages, $29.95.     

B-learning在《现代教育技术》教学中的实验研究

在《现代教育技术》的课程教学中,笔者对B-learning进行了前测——后测菲对等控制组设计的准实验研究。通过对实验数据的分析发现,在学科知识测验方两,两组无显著差异;在是否完成自己预期目标：疗面,两者呈现了显著差异;在协作方面,两种教学方法也擘现出了较显著的差异。另外,B-learning对于培养学习者认知能力和解决问题的能力非常有效。为了能更好地开展B-learning,教师要帮助学生变革他们的学习观,给学生及时有效地指导,并提供丰富的支持环境。     

假设检验在军事工程应用中的若干问题

对假设检验这一统计学工具在军事工程应用中值得注意的若干问题进行了探讨,包括假设的设置、检验门限的设置和统计量的构造等,这些问题在理论上有一些一般的指导,但在实际工程应用中,需要根据具体问题进行设计,这中间涉及一些技巧和经验,也容易出现一些常被忽视的问题。指出了这些问题,并给出了在实际工程中应用好假设检验的一些建议。     

末端防御武器平台炮控性能检测方法

末端防御武器平台炮控系统性能的好坏直接影响首发命中率和射击反应时间等重要战技指标,在设计试验阶段,对其炮控性能进行检测是必不可少的环节。采用基于三棱锥模型的炮控性能检测方法,建立了三棱锥计算模型并进行Matlab仿真分析以及检测精度分析,从而验证了其工作原理及可行性,满足武器平台炮控性能检测的要求。     

武警“合训”院校大学英语教学形成性评估探析

将形成性评估恰当地运用到大学英语课堂,能显著改善教学效果,有效弥补当前武警“合训”院校大学英语教学与测试的一些不足。从分析大学英语教学中的形成性评估的重要性着手,指出形成性评估中存在的问题及原因,并提出了一些设想和方案。     

基于变转速的柴油抗磨性评定方法

以MRS-1J型四球摩擦磨损试验机为平台,提出了一种变转速条件下柴油抗磨性评定方法。利用VC＋＋对试验机软件进行了改进,增加了负荷-转速程序控制功能,实现了试验机自由设置转速、负荷的变化范围、变化速率和变化模式。通过正交试验方法确定了最佳试验条件,发现试验时间3N1min,负荷11N2N,油温60℃,转速在1 min内由100 r/min线性上升至20N3r/min再线性下降至100 r/min并依次循环时,该试验方法具有良好的重复性和区分性。在与高频往复试验机法的对比中,发现该方法的磨斑直径变化率大于高频往复试验机法,证明变转速四球机法优于高频往复试验机法。     

Reduction of global effects on vehicles after IED detonations

Global effects caused by the detonation of an IED near a military vehicle induce subsequent severe acceleration effects on the vehicle occupants. Two concepts to minimize these global effects were developed, with the help of a combined method based on a scaled experimental technology and numerical simulations. The first concept consists in the optimization of the vehicle shape to reduce the momentum transfer and thus the occupant loading. Three scaled V-shaped vehicles with different ground clearances were built and compared to a reference vehicle equipped with a flat floor. The second concept, called dynamic impulse compensation (DIC), is based on a momentum compensation technique. The principal possibility of this concept was demonstrated on a scaled vehicle. In addition, the numerical simulations have been performed with generic full size vehicles including dummy models, proving the capability of the DIC technology to reduce the occupant loading.     

基于类成员后向切片的面向对象程序回归测试

程序切片是一种重要的程序分析方法,类成员级粒度的切片技术目前仅仅有Tip提出的类层次切片技术.Tip提出的类层次切片技术其分析基础是Rossie-Friedman的类层次框架,但主要用于面向对象程序的优化,并不适用于回归测试.本文基于Rossie-Friedman的类层次框架提出类成员后向切片方法,并提出一个覆盖类的方法一级的回归测试策略.