Transforming the Spanish military

The article analyses the Spanish military transformation. This process started in 2004 as a means to adapt the force structure, organization and capabilities of the Spanish military to meet present and future threats in compliance with NATO’s initiatives, thus ensuring the continuity of the equipment modernization, professionalization and the adjustment of the country’s defence architecture to the post-cold war environment. A decade later, although transformation is still a priority for the Ministry of Defence, limited political will, a lack of strategic guidance, poor resource management and the effects of the economic crisis are compromising its development. This article describes the Spanish military transformation and assesses its value in adapting the country’s armed forces to the current and prospective security environment.     

EU armed forces and social media: convergence or divergence?

This article explores how armed forces in EU member states work with and view social media in national and international settings, and what the patterns of convergence/divergence are on these issues. To that end, a questionnaire targeted at EU armed forces was constructed. An index of qualitative variation was calculated to explore the relative convergence among respondents (n = 25) on issues of risks and opportunities with using social media nationally and internationally. Consistent with previous research on European armed forces, we found higher levels of divergence than convergence. Contrary to our expectations that similar challenges, joint international standards, and membership in international organizations would foster convergence with regard to social media use in areas of deployment, we found that convergence appeared foremost pertaining to the domestic level. Policy divergence was strongest in areas of deployment.     

Explaining the security paradigm shift: strategic culture,epistemic communities,and Israel’s changing national security policy

The paper’s main argument is that Israel’s security policy, which traditionally focused on defending its territorial integrity against regular Arab armed forces, was, by the 2010s, transformed into one that focuses on facing a variety of state- and non-state-based threats. Neo-realist explanations could neither account for the contested nature of the security debate during this period, nor the inconsistent evolution of the policy. The present study aims to solve this conundrum by introducing an alternative approach known as 4th generation strategic culture research. The paper is comprised of four parts. First, the origins and evolution of strategic culture are reviewed, with emphasis placed on the commonly accepted weaknesses that, to date, have prevented it from being used as a testable theoretical concept, and subsequently as an explanatory factor for security policy changes. The second part presents the “modernist constructivism” approach that bridges the gap between traditional constructivism and hypothesis-driven research design. Next, the paper introduces the emerging fourth generation in strategic culture literature, followed by a conceptual framework designed to resolve the inherent weaknesses of the more traditional approaches. Finally, this conceptual framework is applied to analyse the transformation of Israel’s security policy between 1982 and 2014.     

多旋翼无人机在战术后勤中的应用分析

旋翼无人机技术发展迅猛,在军用领域展现出极强的发展潜力,部分军事强国已将旋翼无人机技术引入后勤,对后勤运输产生了深刻影响。旋翼无人机的技术特点使其更适应恶劣条件下战术后勤任务,是对陆、海、空运输方式的良好补充。旋翼无人机实现快速运输与精准分发平稳换挡接力,给原有的运输、投送、分发后勤运输体系带来一系列新的变化,有助于建设立体化现代后勤。     

陆军合成营作战仿真组件化模型体系设计研究?

针对当前陆军合成营作战仿真模型缺乏整体设计、模型重用性差以及集成效率低的现状,从顶层设计入手,提出基于组件化建模方法的模型体系架构。该模型体系以组件为中心,以平台组件、装备组件、行为组件、辅助组件为重点,聚焦功能组件建模,可为构建良构的陆军合成营作战仿真模型,规范模型设计、开发、集成和运行,提高模型资源重用性,避免低水平重复建设提供先进的应用框架和技术支持。     

Human conflict and universal ethics (part 2)

This second part of the review article begins with a definition of military power, when and how it should be used. From a large number of authors, “moral forces” are linked to “codes of conduct”, and the fundamental understandings about the “profession of arms”, based on “fiduciary trust”, “covenanted” service and professional and personal “conscience”. The article covers what authors have written about “culture” and the ethics of “technology” devices and systems, including “cyber” warfare. It concludes with recognition of the increase in ethical sensitivity in this century which is characterized by a phenomenon, the crises of “identity”, personal, national and global.     

防空兵群指挥所配置方案优化分析

防空兵群指挥所配置是兵力部署的重要内容,它从根本上决定了指挥所的指挥效能和野战生存能力。多年来,指挥所的配置多是根据防空兵战斗的相关战术原则,由作战参谋提出数个配置方案,然后由指挥员做出决策。这种仅凭主观决策的做法与现代防空作战的要求不相适应。结合模糊多指标评判方法与优化理论,从发挥指挥效能与提高生存能力两个方面出发,对防空群指挥所的配置进行了分析,并建立了配置方案优化的模型,从根本上改变了指挥所配置完全依赖主观判断的做法。最后应用模型分析了一个实例。     

战术C4I系统体系结构研究中的"3A"浅析

首先提出了为什么要研究 C4I系统体系结构问题 ,进而依据参考资料定义了“3A”及其研究内容。在描述了“3A”之间的简要关系之后 ,给出了对“3A”之间特殊关系的几点思考 ,并对所涉及到的军事需求、数据模型与数据库、数据模型与数学模型、数据模型与数据词典、强制性标准与系统的互操作性等问题进行了较为深入和透彻的分析 ,明确了 C4I体系结构研究中有关术语的内涵 ,加深了对“3A”的理解。最后指出 ,要想搞好我国的 C4I系统建设 ,必须开发共用操作环境和国防数据词典系统     

我军武器装备跨越式发展应处理好几个关系

介绍了实现我军武器装备跨越式发展的基本思路,全面、辨证地分析了武器装备建设的现实需要、现有条件、长远目标和要求,提出了必须处理好的5个重大关系,以确保这一战略目标的实现.     

基于模糊综合评价法的装甲团城市 市区进攻战斗部署方案优化研究

战斗部署的内容是决心方案的主体部分,战斗部署确定的合理与否,将会直接影响到战斗方案的质量。因此,准确的评估战斗部署方案,对提高作战指挥决策的科学性,保障指挥员定下正确、合理的战斗决心具有重要意义。论文根据战斗部署的定义和战斗部署的要求,建立了城市市区进攻战斗部署的评价指标体系,并采用层次分析法确定其权重,最后使用模糊综合评价法对战斗部署方案进行评估。