基于网络中心战的C2BMC信息分发模型研究

美军导弹防御的C2BMC系统是应用网络中心战思想较为成功的案例之一.旨在通过建立其信息分发模型探索其成功原因,达到加深对网络中心战思想理解的目的.首先介绍了C2BMC系统的发展现状,然后对导弹防御系统信息流的类型、特点进行深入分析,提出了导弹防御作战信息分发系统的概念,并在此基础上建立了概念级、指挥结构级和描述级的C2BMC系统信息分发模型,为获取信息优势、建设信息化装备提供理论支持.     

舰载红外搜索与跟踪系统的最新现状与发展趋势

详细介绍了国外舰载红外搜索与跟踪系统的研制与装备,包括各国典型系统的特点、研制历史、试验以及装舰服役现状等,提出了舰载红外搜索与跟踪系统的未来发展方向。     

无源BD在导弹自定位中的应用研究

为了解决近程防空导弹制导雷达实现全方位、高数据率跟踪多目标、截获跟踪多导弹遇到的资源紧张问题,提出了利用BD无源定位方案实现导弹自定位,提高导弹自定位精度的方法。仿真结果表明,该方案合理可行,可降低导弹定位误差,所得结果对防空导弹自定位方案设计具有指导意义。     

Reluctant guerrillas in early nineteenth century China: the White Lotus insurgents and their suppressors

ABSTRACT

At the turn of the nineteenth century, China’s Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was hit by a sectarian rebellion. Commonly considered a breakpoint marking the end of the dynasty’s golden age spanning most of the eighteenth century, the war to suppress the rebels, referred to as the White Lotus War (1796–1804) in this article (‘White Lotus’ was the umbrella name used by both the authorities and some sectarians for their teaching), exposed many structural drawbacks of the Qing political and military systems and depleted the dynasty’s financial resources, which had never been recovered. Reluctant in embracing guerrilla warfare in the beginning, the insurgents quickly turned themselves into master guerrillas. Shuttling in two massive mountain ranges in central China, they managed to prolong their rebellion and fought some successful battles against their suppressors. Superior in manpower, weaponry, and logistical support, the government forces had to adapt to guerrilla warfare, albeit passively and ineptly. This article gives a brief introduction to this little-known episode of guerrilla war at the turn of the nineteenth century in Qing China, expounds the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, and sheds light on the roots of the war’s long duration and the grim consequences to the Qing state.     

The Mexican War: frontier expansion and selective incursion

ABSTRACT

Mexico’s defeat in the war that (in the U.S.) takes the country’s name resulted as much from the strategic context created by unrealized nation-building that followed independence as it did from American tactical supremacy. Three centuries of Spanish empire did not translate into national military excellence due to the decades of revolutionary upheaval that followed the sudden decapitation occasioned by Napoleon’s ouster of the monarchy in Madrid. That the occupation which followed major combat provided salutary lessons learned in dealing with guerrillas rather than a Vietnam-like litany of quagmire eventuated from the conscious designs of military leadership steeped in the same Napoleonic dynamic that had produced our opponent. The United States wisely chose to leave issues of state-building and governance to the Mexicans themselves, while annexing the sparsely populated northern remnant of Spanish empire.     

Guns and butter? Military expenditure and health spending on the eve of the Arab Spring

We examine the validity of the guns-versus-butter hypothesis in the pre-Arab Spring era. Using panel data from 1995 to 2011 – the eve of the Arab uprisings – we find no evidence that increased security needs as measured by the number of domestic terrorist attacks are complemented by increased military spending or more importantly ‘crowd out’ government expenditure on key public goods such as health care. This suggests that both expenditure decisions were determined by other considerations at the government level.