“神话重述”的策略及其实践——以苏童的《碧奴》为例

“重述神话”的写作策略及其实践立足于民族神话的精神源泉,把神话的寓意和象征以及民族心理的把握有机结合起来,采用暗示和寓言的策略,从本土文化中演绎文学的构想并注入诗意的因素,力图凸显传统与现代接壤的特质。     

Vicarious warfare: The counterproductive consequences of modern American military practice

This article examines contemporary modes of American warfare. It posits the concept of “vicarious warfare” as a means of capturing prominent patterns in warfighting approaches. Although rooted in long-standing traditions of military practice, vicarious warfare is sufficiently novel as to be identifiable as a distinct phenomenon. The precise manifestation or combination of vicarious methods vary according to the specific circumstances and political contexts prevailing in different theaters. However, America’s general preference is to fight its wars by delegating tasks to proxies and limiting exposure of its own military to danger. Where U.S. forces are employed directly, this takes place largely in the shadows. Such approaches have clear attractions, offer undoubted tactical advantages, and permit successive administrations to maintain a persistent tempo of operations that evades rigorous democratic scrutiny. Yet, prominent cases and numerous studies suggest that vicarious warfare has a high potential to generate counterproductive effects and significant strategic harm.     

More on the search for an infiltrator

We have asymptotically solved a discrete search game on an array of n ordered cells with two players: infiltrator (hider) and searcher, when the probability of survival approaches 1. The infiltrator wishes to reach the last cell in finite time, and the searcher has to defend that cell. When the players occupy the same cell, the searcher captures the infiltrator with probability 1 ? z. The payoff to the hider is the probability that the hider reaches the last cell without getting captured. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 49: 1–14, 2002; DOI 10.1002/nav.1047     

弹道平面交叉算法

在飞弹武器使用中,进行弹道分配,通常要采用避免平面交叉方法优化弹道分配结果.但由于弹道分组限制的存在,经常出现无法完成分配的现象.针对这一问题,在建立数学模型的基础上,提出了一种新的优选策略.该策略优先考虑是否可以完成分配,采用从靶点到起射点、飞弹这样一个逆序的分配过程,有效解决了该问题.     

以色列反恐情报战略探讨

以色列是世界上第一个遭受国际恐怖主义威胁的国家。但通过明确分工和行之有效的反恐措施,以色列已经能够对付不断升级的恐怖主义威胁。自“9·11”事件以来,全球许多国家都开始向以色列求教国土安全方面的知识和专业技术。     

基于D矩阵的舰船电子装备综合诊断方法

针对舰船电子装备综合诊断实现要求,提出一种基于故障-测试依赖性关系(D)矩阵的综合诊断方法,利用同一D矩阵分别完成对舰船电子装备的测试性分析评估、测试诊断需求分配、诊断测试序列生成和诊断信息的共享,实现舰船电子装备综合诊断各过程诊断信息模型的一致.该方法已在某舰载电子装备综合诊断实现中得到验证和应用.     

基于非独立测试的诊断策略优化生成

诊断策略优化设计是测试性设计中的一项重要内容.实际中的测试彼此间并非独立,即测试费用依赖于测试的先后顺序,针对这一问题,提出将测试划分成不同的测试模式,规定当一个测试序列中存在模式变换时必须考虑附加的转换费用.建立了同时考虑测试费用和模式转换费用启发式评估函数,并基于该启发式评估函数设计了近似最优的搜索算法,应用案例验证了本算法.试验表明该方法有效地解决了非独立测试的诊断策略优化生成问题.     

MAD,not Marx: Khrushchev and the nuclear revolution

The revival of nuclear strategy in US policy and scholarship has been strengthened by arguments that the ‘nuclear revolution’ – the assumption that thermonuclear bombs and missiles had made major war too dangerous to wage – does not affect international behaviour as much as nuclear revolution advocates claim. This article shows that the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev indeed regarded nuclear war as too dangerous to wage, a decision which manifested itself not so much in foreign policy or military doctrine but in his determination to avoid war when the possibility arose. We argue that Khrushchev’s experience provides us with a more useful way to characterise the nuclear revolution and suggest some implications of this argument for contemporary debates about nuclear weaponry.     

Classical geopolitics,realism and the balance of power theory

Since the end of World War II, classical geopolitics as a particular form of realism has been disengaged from the development of mainstream realist theories. This disengagement has not only concealed the value of classical geopolitics as a framework of analysis for policy and strategy, but also created an increasing rift between theory and policy in contemporary realist theories. This paper seeks to reengage classical geopolitics with mainstream realist theories by clarifying its realist traits and analytical characteristics, (re)stating its core propositions and probing into its potential contribution to the development of mainstream realist theories. This paper contends that classical geopolitics, while having a distinctive pedigree, can arguably be considered an integral part of the family of realist theories in view of its basic theoretical assumptions concerning international anarchy, the unit of analysis and power politics. As a framework of analysis, classical geopolitics incorporates three interrelated strategic propositions. Those three propositions not only constitute the theoretical core of classical geopolitics, but also manifest a peculiar balance-of-power conception that is essentially distinct from those proposed by mainstream realist theories. This paper argues that those three propositions combined promise to fill in prominent lacuna in the balance-of-power research programme, and also have significant implications for contemporary world politics.     

Think again – supplying war: reappraising military logistics and its centrality to strategy and war

This article argues that logistics constrains strategic opportunity while itself being heavily circumscribed by strategic and operational planning. With the academic literature all but ignoring the centrality of logistics to strategy and war, this article argues for a reappraisal of the critical role of military logistics, and posits that the study and conduct of war and strategy are incomplete at best or false at worst when they ignore this crucial component of the art of war. The article conceptualises the logistics–strategy nexus in a novel way, explores its contemporary manifestation in an age of uncertainty, and applies it to a detailed case study of UK operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.