China's Nuclear Forces and Their Significance to India

The Indian nuclear program is a response to a perceived politico-strategic threat from China as opposed to a military-operational one that New Delhi began after perceiving an “ultimatum” from China in 1965. Consequently, India is in the process of acquiring an assured second-strike capability vis-à-vis China to meet the requirements of general deterrence. While India has always been concerned about the Sino-Pakistani nuclear/missile nexus, China has become wary of the growing military ties between the United States and India in recent years, especially because of the military implications of the US-India civil nuclear deal. Given the growing conventional military gap between the two states, India is not lowering its nuclear threshold to meet the Chinese conventional challenge. Instead, India is upgrading its conventional military strategy from dissuasion to deterrence against China. While the overall Sino-Indian nuclear relationship is stable, it will be challenged as China acquires advanced conventional weapons that blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear conflict.     

Pakistan's Evolving Nuclear Weapon Posture

This essay provides an overview of the ongoing quantitative and qualitative changes in Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and their impact on deterrence stability vis-à-vis India. Prominent among these trends is a major expansion in fissile material production that enables the manufacture of lighter and more compact warheads optimized for battlefield missions; the development of cruise missiles and shorter-range ballistic missiles possessing dual-use capabilities; and a greater emphasis in doctrinal pronouncements on the need for strike options geared to all levels of conflict. Although these trends pose problematic ramifications for the risks of unauthorized and inadvertent escalation, deterrence stability in South Asia is not as precarious as many observers fear. The challenges of fashioning a robust nuclear peace between India and Pakistan cannot be lightly dismissed, however, and policy makers would do well to undertake some reinforcing measures.     

Is the Indian Nuclear Tiger Changing Its Stripes?

Sixteen years after stepping out of the nuclear closet, India's nuclear posture, some of its operational practices, and hardware developments are beginning to mimic those of the original five nuclear weapon states. Several proliferation scholars in the United States contend that India's national security managers are poised to repeat the worst mistakes of the superpowers’ Cold War nuclear competition, with negative consequences for deterrence, crisis, and stability in South Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. This article takes a contrarian view. It dissects the best available data to show why the alarmist view is overstated. It argues that not only are the alarmists’ claims unsupported by evidence, their interpretation of the skeletal and often contradictory data threatens to construct the very threat they prophesize.     

需求自感知的军港岸基保障物联网系统

军港人工保障模式已很难适应现代信息化战争对舰艇的实时、精确、高效、可靠保障要求。文章基于物联网的理念和技术,构建了具有需求自感知能力的军港岸基保障物联网系统,将业务需求数据、实时保障数据、保障过程视频等保障信息汇集融合到一个统一的平台上,实现了保障人员对保障过程的可视化、透明化的监视和控制。文章首先分析了军港岸基保障流程及其特点,定义了军港岸基保障物联网系统的概念模型,给出了其总体功能框架,在此基础上,讨论了军港岸基保障物联网系统的硬件结构和软件模型。军港岸基保障物联网系统已在某大型军港获得成功应用。     

任职院校国防生自尊、自我效能感及个性特征的研究

调查任职院校国防生自尊、自我效能感状况及其个性特征,为任职培训期间开展教育和管理工作提供参考。采用自尊量表（SES）、一般自我效能感量表（GSES）、艾森克人格问卷（EPQ）以及自编问卷方法,对535名任职院校国防生进行调查。结果显示：任职院校国防生自尊水平与专业、是否学员骨干等因素有关;自我效能水平与居住地等因素有关;任职院校国防生人格特征与军校生和军人群体相对接近,但与大学生群体有所不同。可见,对任职院校国防生进行教育管理时,应该重点从提高国防生的自尊和自我效能感水平入手,更好地维护和提高国防生在任职培训期间的心理健康水平。     

INS/GPS组合制导修正主动段自旋误差研究

弹道导弹主动段自旋可以对抗激光武器拦截,实现主动段突防.但是主动段自旋又会引起较大的速度位置偏差,进而造成较大的落点偏差.提出了一种通过自由段组合制导修正落点偏差的方案.首先建立了主动段自旋弹道模型,分析了主动段自旋引起的速度位置误差及最终的落点偏差,然后在自由段采用INS/GPS组合制导,应用卡尔曼滤波对数据进行处理.仿真表明,该方法可以明显提高导弹的命中精度.     

新形势下高校辅导员队伍专业化建设探析

随着改革开放的不断深入,日益多样化的社会生活以及大学生较为强烈的个性化成长需求,都对高校辅导员队伍专业化建设提出了更高要求。要在充分认识做好当今高校辅导员工作重要意义的基础上,进一步全面提升高校辅导员的思想理论水平、工作能力等综合素质,去积极探索实施辅导员队伍专业化建设的有效路径,以保证这支队伍专业化建设的有效途径,以保证这支队伍真正成为开展大学生思想政治教育工作的骨干力量。     

高职新生外语学习风格调查分析

本研究通过问卷形式,对155名高职新生的感知学习风格进行调查,以了解学生外语学习风格总体倾向,不同民族、性别、专业及外语学习年限不同学生学习风格的差异,并分析其学习风格与外语学习成绩间的相关性。此研究目的是帮助高职外语教师了解学生感知学习风格偏好,使教师在教学过程中因材施教并指导学生重塑外语学习风格,以便提高高职学生外语学习效率。     

舰艇编队保障性指标的分解方法

针对目前保障性分配仅限于单船的问题,借鉴基本可靠度的分配思想,通过对舰艇编队使用可用度与单船使用可用度关系的分析,建立了舰艇编队保障性指标分解模型,并采用多因子评分系数分配法来确定舰艇编队保障性指标的权重。最后,通过实例给出了具体分解操作步骤,证明了该模型的正确性和有效性。分解结果可优化舰艇编队的编成,为编队里同型单船保障性指标的确定提供修正,同时为完善舰艇编队的综合保障工程提供参考。     

密集目标有偏航迹整体匹配关联方法

针对密集目标和传感器探测存在较大系统偏差的复杂条件下的分布式融合中航迹关联问题,设计了一种整体匹配航迹关联方法,首先将所有航迹划分成若干个关联聚,对各传感器都有多个目标航迹的关联聚采用多目标点图整体匹配,对某传感器只有单目标航迹的关联聚采用航迹段整体匹配,从而获得关联聚内所有航迹的关联关系。在仿真分析中,随机产生态势,分别计算新算法在不同情形下的漏关联、正确关联率、错误关联率。仿真验证结果表明该算法在不同目标密集程度、系统误差情形下都有较好的适应性。