The continuing resonance of the war as risk management perspective for understanding military interventions

In the late 1990s and 2000s, a slew of books and journal articles proposed that a nexus between risk management and warfare was emerging. This article argues that risk management ideas continue to shape recent campaigns against Libya, Islamic State, Syria, and the war on terror from Niger, Yemen to Somalia. It uses existing literature on risk and warfare to examine four key aspects of contemporary interventions. First, the article evaluates the overall strategic context as security concerns shift from terrorism toward renewed great power competition. Second, it re-assesses the risk calculus for military action through the language and grammar of risk invoked by politicians. Third and fourth, it addresses the continuing reliance on air power and the managerial ethos of military operations as important features of war as risk management.     

Why do they serve? Changes and differences in motives of Danish soldiers deployed to peace-keeping and peace-enforcing missions

This paper investigates what motivates young people to volunteer for peace-keeping or peace-enforcing missions and how their motives change between pre- and post-deployment. Data include information about social and military background, and motives for more than 600 soldiers, 444 of whom answered the survey both before and after deployment. Soldiers are deployed to different missions under the same circumstances. To conceptualize motives among soldiers, we use factor analysis and find three factors: challenge, self-benefit, and fidelity. Challenge represents an occupational orientation; fidelity, an institutional orientation; and self-benefit, a desire for adventure. Exploiting the within-subject design of our data, we find that pre- and post-deployment motives vary significantly according to the type of mission and soldiers’ previous experiences (first-timers or experienced soldiers). Our results suggest that after the mission, peace-keepers are generally more disappointed than peace-enforcers. Our results also show that self-benefit motives are important for younger soldiers with only a high school education, and that this group usually serves as peace-enforcers during their gap year.     

平方根Spherical Simplex UKF在飞船姿态估计中的应用

提出了一种用矢量观测来估计飞船姿态的平方根spherical simplex unscented卡尔曼滤波算法。该算法将spherical simplex unscented变换与unscented卡尔曼滤波结合起来,与采用scaled unscented变换的unscented卡尔曼滤波相比,具有更低的计算量。其平方根形式由于协方差阵的半正定性,拥有更好的数值稳定性。飞船的姿态运动学描述采用了四元数,而用广义罗德里格斯参数来克服卡尔曼滤波过程中的四元数归一化误差。仿真结果表明,该算法比标准扩展卡尔曼滤波具有更低的姿态估计误差及更快的收敛率。     

一种面向混合数据集可视化的高效数据转换技术

应用领域中存在大量多数据类型属性的混合数据集,但是,很多有效多变元可视化方法的适用范围都只局限于单一类型,对于混合数据集可视化效果不甚理想。针对包含数值及分类型属性的多元混合数据集,提出一种面向混合数据集可视化的数据转换技术,首先对每一数值型属性使用聚类技术进行分类化,然后应用对应分析算法量化所有分类型属性,最后将转换后的混合数据集使用经典的数值型可视化方法——星形坐标法进行展现,并且针对变元数量较多或分类型变元势较高的混合数据集,在数据转换过程中提出一套降势策略,减少参与计算的变元数量,提高计算效率。实验表明,该方法对混合数据集的可视化结果不仅易于理解,而且有利于用户发现其中的隐性知识,降势策略在提高内存及时间效率方面作用显著。     

作战仿真数据集成框架研究及实现

作战仿真数据的集成与整合是我军数据工程建设项目的重要内容.以ETL及消息中间件(MOM)技术为基础,设计了一种基于消息中间件的抽取、转换、传输与加载(ETTL)的作战仿真数据集成框架.分析了系统结构模型及各模块相互关系,提出了一个可行的数据集成解决方案.介绍了一个分布式数据集成系统平台的设计与实现,并结合一个数据集成实例详细阐述了该系统在我军军事演习中的应用.     

中国走向现代化的文化转型

中国传统文化模式严重地制约着我国现代化的进程。只有通过深刻的文化启蒙,直接从普通民众安身立命的自在的文化根基入手,进行改造、批判和重建,才能实现我国传统文化的彻底转型。     

贯彻十七大精神,加速推进学院教育转型

军队学历教育院校深入贯彻十七大精神,落实军委、总部人才培养要求的一个重要方面,就是要加速推进教育转型。阐述了学历教育院校教育转型的必然性,挖掘了教育转型的内涵,提出了相应对策,对当前应重点解决的问题进行了初步探讨。     

学习迁移理论在地理教学中的应用

在地理教学中运用学习迁移理论,不仅有助于学生构建完整的知识体系,而且有助于学生素质的提高和全面发展,对学生学习迁移能力提高有很大的促进作用。地理教师在教学中必须充分重视和运用迁移理论,达到“为迁移而教”的教学境界。     

Arnold变换的置乱恢复研究

基于Arnold变换的原理和特点,探讨了2种置乱恢复方法,并通过仿真,比较了它们的置乱恢复效率。从缩短恢复时间的角度出发,综合2种方法提出了优化方案,在一定程度上提高了置乱恢复的效率。     

军事工程技术院校争取基金项目的实践与思考

本文阐述了军校开展基金项目研究的重要性,论证了军校申报科学基金项目的可行性,探讨了获取基金项目立项工作的基础和有效途径,并针对军校特点,提出了加强基金申报工作的切实可行的措施和策略。