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.     

Guns–butter tradeoff in contemporary China

This study offers an investigation of the relationship between defense and social spending in the People's Republic of China. In particular, three consecutive questions are answered here. Does a warfare–welfare tradeoff exist in China's budgetary allocation? Is it positive or negative? What is the causal direction involved? By applying a vector autoregression analysis for the period of 1952–2006, this study finds a unidirectional crowd-out effect going from defense to social spending.     

“Leading from behind”: neoclassical realism and operation Odyssey Dawn

In March 2011, President Barack Obama ordered US air and naval forces to commence Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya to impose a no-fly zone. The decision by the Obama Administration to intervene in a limited and supporting role in Libya is an important development in US foreign policy. Operation Odyssey Dawn presents scholars with a valuable opportunity to analyze and explore how US foreign policy is made and what roles domestic politics and elite perceptions play in decisions to use force. The author argues that neoclassical realism is a useful and compelling theoretic framework with which to analyze Operation Odyssey Dawn. While the Administration intervened in response to perceived external-level threats to US national interests, salient intervening domestic-level variables and elite perceptions shaped and guided the tenor and scope of the operation.     

日本防卫产业发展潜力问题分析

日本自卫队追求能力提升和活动范围扩大的努力受到其防卫产业发展的局限。防卫预算的有限直接导致防卫产业的市场规模狭小。部分核心技术自主研发的缺失限制了防卫产业独立发展的能力。融合式发展模式在成本核算、劳动生产率提升和产业发展稳定性等方面限制了防卫产业发展的潜力。     

面向网络化防空反导体系的可组合建模框架

当前网络化防空反导体系的理论及其建模仿真工作还处于探索阶段,基于可组合建模框架的思想,设计了指控网、探测网和武器网三网交互的网络化防空反导体系结构概念图,开发了包括体系顶层框架、体系决策框架和数据链接口框架的可组合建模框架,通过单机突防舰队阵地混编群的仿真实验论证了所设计的建模框架的可组合性和合理性,为网络化防空反导体系的建模与效能仿真提供了有力支撑。     

多层弹道导弹防御体系火力分配优化研究

对多层弹道导弹防御体系火力分配问题进行了研究。首先对多层弹道导弹防御体系火力分配问题进行了描述,在此基础上建立了基于最大化资源剩余价值目标函数的多层弹道导弹防御体系火力分配模型,分析了求解该模型的难点,提出了基于文化基因的多层弹道导弹防御体系火力分配问题文化基因求解算法,最后应用实例验证了模型的有效性,并对算法进行了对比分析。试验结果证明,合理制定多层弹道导弹防御体系火力分配方案,对于提升防御效能具有重要意义。     

最大生存概率下的编队防空目标分配研究

为研究编队目标武器分配方法,分析了编队防空体系在作战过程中武器系统火力单元状态、分配决策矩阵和目标序列状态的动态更新形式,建立了以编队生存概率最大为最优函数的动态目标分配优化模型。描述了仿真环境,运用不确定目标序列对分配过程进行了仿真。结果表明,所建立的模型能够反映实际情况,得到的关于集火、转火射击和优先分配策略对模型的工程应用具有实际指导意义。     

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。     

“Flectas non frangas”: revisiting early twenty-first century UK–US defense relations (2000–2005) after five years

Adopting the analytical framework of the established interpretive “schools” of Anglo-American relations, this article offers several reflections on UK–US defense relations as they occurred over the significant years of 2000–2005. During those years, trajectories were established on which UK–US defense relations continue to travel today and outcomes emerged which are still being navigated. This article concludes that the Latin phrase, “Flectas Non Frangas” (essentially translated as: “Bend not Break”), is the most appropriate to adopt to characterize the developments undergone in recent UK–US defense relations. Many historical and strategic lessons with contemporary relevance are drawn.     

航母编队在对空防御中预警机空域配置的方法

航母编队在对空防御中,通常利用预警机机载雷达探测距离远的优势实施对空预警,以提高编队防空作战能力。基于预警机的任务,提出了预警机空域配置的基本要求,分析了预警机前出距离、预警距离、预警扇面角与巡逻线长度之间制约关系,并建立了模型。在此基础上进行仿真分析。仿真结果证明该方法实用、可行,为对空防御中预警机空域的配置提供了参考依据。