以军事技术创新探索我军发展新模式

提出建立以军事技术创新为内在机制的新的军事发展模式,论述了这个发展模式的要点和特点以及为转向创新应注意解决的几个关键性问题.     

坦克射击模拟器视景三维数学模型的建立

针对研制坦克射击模拟器的要求,利用三维图形技术,建立起了一套三维数学模型,并在该模型基础上提出一种快速纹理生成算法,克服了传统纹理映射方法耗时多的缺点,在微机上达到实时生成,从而能模拟坦克前进动态效果,使得模拟逼真度得以提高.     

非线性系统的状态观测器设计

文中讨论了非线性状态观测器的一种新的构造方法,建立了非线性系统观测器的一种线性化设计过程,所得结果是线性系统观测器理论在非线性系统中的直接拓广。     

在有限区间中用FFT求微分方程数值解的几个问题

本文讨论了在有限区间中运用FFT求解微分方程数值解时遇到的几个问题,并提出了解决方法。     

机载雷达目标搜索和跟踪中的坐标系问题

雷达对目标进行搜索和跟踪时,由于雷达的体制、安装方式(运载体还是地面固定位置)、工作方式等的不同,涉及到许多坐标系。结合实际工程问题,对雷达搜索与跟踪中坐标系问题进行了深入探讨。包括坐标系的定义、作用、坐标系转换问题,坐标转换中的误差定量分析,所得出的结论对于雷达对目标进行搜索与跟踪,尤其是对安装于运载体上的雷达坐标系问题有很大的参考价值,并给出了某型直升机载雷达挂飞时的实测姿态数据。     

Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Modern Wars – A Reply to Jones and Smith

In light of present day calls for increased levels of cultural understanding on the part of Western forces engaged in conflict, this article assesses the utility of such knowledge in light of the British experience of the North-West Frontier of India 1901–1945. By using the British concept of the Political Officer as an example, it proposes that while cultural understanding is of genuine importance when operating in such a challenging environment, possession of it does not necessarily aid either the design or implementation of successful policy. As the British experience on the Frontier during this period illustrates, cultural awareness and understanding may be possessed in abundance, and the mechanisms for achieving such a state of understanding may be advanced, but traditional factors such as a cultural bias on the part of policy-makers, conservatism, underfunding, local resistance to unfamiliar concepts and a fractured civil-military relationship will dominate such awareness and overshadow the benefits that it may provide.     

Contracting Out Security

Private security companies (PSCs) currently receive a great deal of attention in the news media, in sensationalist reporting, and increasingly in scholarly books and articles. While the scholarly books and articles make significant contributions to our understanding of this global phenomenon, there are several impediments to analysis that must be recognized and overcome if analysis is to be improved. Three of these impediments are reviewed in this article. The author suggests that US government material is currently available to minimize impediments and offers a framework to make analytical sense of it. Since contracting out is based on contracts, and unless the complexities of awarding and managing contracts are understood, recommendations made to reform the process of contracting out security are unrealistic.     

China's Military Procurement and Its Operational Implications: A Response to Yoram Evron

This article is a response to Evron's argument, offering readers another perspective to assess China's military modernization and war fighting capabilities, using the same framework and methodology. It examines three topics: China's national security and military strategy, the PLA's procurement decision-making process, and China's military support and mobilization system. It concludes that, China's military modernization is to fight and win local wars under the conditions of informatization, but if required the PLA can reliably supply large numbers of sophisticated weapons and spare parts, to wage a complex and prolonged conflict.     

NATO's Transformation Gaps: Transatlantic Differences and the War in Afghanistan

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has since the turn of the new century experienced a double transformation gap: between global and regionally oriented allies and between allies emulating new military practices defined by the United States and allies resisting radical change. This article takes stock of these gaps in light of a decade's worth of collective and national adjustments and in light of counter-insurgency lessons provided by Afghanistan. It argues first of all that the latter transatlantic gap is receding in importance because the United States has adjusted its transformation approach and because some European allies have significantly invested in technological, doctrinal, and organizational reform. The other transformation gap is deepening, however, pitching battle-hardened and expeditionary allies against allies focused on regional tasks of stabilization and deterrence. There is a definite potential for broad transformation, our survey of officers' opinion shows, but NATO's official approach to transformation, being broad and vague, provides neither political nor military guidance. If NATO is to move forward and bridge the gap, it must clarify the lessons of Afghanistan and embed them in its new Strategic Concept.