【将军论坛】重要经济目标与矢量防护工程

重要经济目标是信息化战争首选的打击对象,这类目标绝大多数位于地面以上,特点突出、规模庞大、难以保密、易损性强,一旦遭受破坏后果将损失惨重,而依靠建造硬壳抵御弹药毁伤的传统防护工程对其难有大的作为。本文从新形势下重要经济目标防护陷于困局的实际出发,系统分析和梳理了传统防护工程和防护技术的特点及其应用的固有薄弱特征,提出矢量防护的创造性解决方案,为重要经济设施和预警设施、新型作战装备等位于地面的易损性目标提供了理论基础。矢量防护工程通过改变弹药的运动方向,避免弹药与目标交汇,将防护工程由“拳击式”硬顶变为“太极式”破解,为未来我国重要经济目标提供了新质防护技术。     

心理战领域研究的科学知识图谱

为把握心理战领域的研究现状,本文基于文献计量与科学知识图谱技术,对CNKI与WoS收录的心理战领域研究文献进行计量分析,并绘制文献的时间分布图谱、关键词共现图谱以及关键词突变图谱。在此基础上,对国内外心理战领域研究的科研合作、研究热点及研究前沿进行了探索与对比,并提出应制定完善的心理战条令,建立专门的心理战职能部门,加强心理战人才培养及提高部队官兵的心理素质等几项措施、建议,期望为国内心理战领域的进一步研究提供借鉴与参考。     

地面无人装备对未来陆战的影响及对策

当前,地面无人装备作为多能合一的新质作战力量,已成为世界各军事强国发展的重点,对未来陆战形态影响深远。为准确把握地面无人装备对陆战的影响及未来陆战形态发展趋势,本文首先通过对地面无人装备的发展现状及在研项目的分析,分析装备能力的发展趋势以及可担负的作战任务;其次,从颠覆战场形态、改变作战方式及影响指挥控制方式三个方面阐述了地面无人装备给未来陆战带来的影响;再次,从无人化技术、作战样式及指挥决策三个方面对未来陆战形态的演进进行分析;最后为应对未来陆战变革带来的机遇与挑战,从军事需求、技术发展、优势保持及人才培养四个方面提出了对策与建议,具有一定的理论研究意义。     

An approach for predicting digital material consumption in electronic warfare

Electronic warfare is a modern combat mode, in which predicting digital material consumption is a key for material requirements planning (MRP). In this paper, we introduce an insensitive loss function (ε) and propose a ε-SVR-based prediction approach. First, we quantify values of influencing factors of digital equipments in electronic warfare and a small-sample data on real consumption to form a real combat data set, and preprocess it to construct the sample space. Subsequently, we establish the ε-SVR-based prediction model based on “wartime influencing factors - material consumption” and perform model training. In case study, we give 8 historical battle events with battle damage data and predict 3 representative kinds of digital materials by using the proposed approach. The results illustrate its higher accuracy and more convenience compared with other current approaches. Taking data acquisition controller prediction as an example, our model has better prediction performance (RMSE = 0.575 7, MAPE (%) = 12.037 6 and R² = 0.996 0) compared with BP neural network model (RMSE = 1.272 9, MAPE (%) = 23.577 5 and R² = 0.980 3) and GM (1, 1) model (RMSE = 2.095 0, MAPE (%) = 24.188 0 and R² = 0.946 6). The fact shows that the approach can be used to support decision-making for MRP in electronic warfare.     

ISIS’s Warfare Functions: A Systematized Review of a Proto-state’s Conventional Conduct of Combat Operations

This article gives an overall assessment of ISIS’s conventional conduct of combat operations by examining their warfighting functions patterns. In sum, the approach of ISIS comprised fundamental principles: their weapons can be organized into categories, purposeful combination of these forces in keeping with the concept of combined arms combat, and hierarchical command and control executed by experienced commanders. ISIS combat groups combined the elements of formation and firepower as well as movement and mobility. The paper concludes that ISIS obviously had a vast range of conventional capabilities at its disposal and was thus able to conduct major operations.     

Grand Strategy vs. Emergent Strategy in the conduct of foreign policy

Does a great power need to formulate a long-term Grand Strategy to guide its foreign policy actions? While some scholars continue to debate the competing merits of various grand strategies, a growing literature now emphasizes emergent learning and improvisation as the keys to success, as opposed to implementing a long-term design. In this article, I explore these scholarly arguments by framing the debate as one between two schools of thought, Grand Strategy and Emergent Strategy. After presenting the main arguments and the historical examples associated with each school, I evaluate the two approaches across four categories: the type of international security environment each of them is most suited for, the way each approach deals with short-term vs. long-term priorities, the domestic political conditions needed for each approach to be successful, and the type of presidential management qualities each school demands. Lastly, I discuss the implications of these arguments for the scholarship and the practice of foreign policy and national security strategy.     

Beyond balancing? Intrastate conflict and US grand strategy

Grand strategic theorists share an historical emphasis on interstate conflict, yet in contrast to the more frequent intrastate conflicts, these represent only 7 of the some 273 US military deployments since 1900. We argue that these intrastate conflicts limit the utility of regional balances of power in mitigating forms of conflict that the US may consider inimical to its national security interests. When considering potential changes to US force posture and grand strategy, American coercive statecraft should be theorised along a broader strategic continuum encompassing the full range of conflict.     

全息投影技术及其在未来心理战中的应用

当前,随着全息投影技术的不断成熟,其成果被越来越多地运用到政治、经济、教育、医疗、商业、艺术等各个领域。本文从全息投影技术的基本概念、技术原理和实践运用出发,结合当前心理战的作战样式,重点探讨全息投影技术在未来心理战中的应用。     

分兵集火、凡船皆战——浅析美军“分布式杀伤”概念

通过梳理美军"分布式杀伤"概念的提出背景、提出过程、内涵意义,阐述了"分布式杀伤"的三条制胜之道,即符合海战客观环境、符合科技进步方向、符合战争演变趋势。此外,文章还分析了"分布式杀伤"实际执行过程中的几大难点和缺陷,包括指挥控制问题、舰船能力问题、成本和后勤补给问题、防御有效性问题。     

From the sea to outer space: The command of space as the foundation of spacepower theory

Colin Gray once lamented the absence of a ‘Mahan for the final frontier’ and spacepower theory in strategic studies. This article proposes the command of space as the fundamental concept of spacepower theory, and that Mahan himself has much to offer in the endeavour of spacepower theory-making than has hitherto been realised. The theory is advanced by tempering versions of the ‘command of space’, stressing its educational intent, and explaining the nuanced sub-concepts of space control and denial through understanding some precedents set by seapower theory. In the process, aspects of Mahanian and Corbettian seapower theory are unified.