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。     

防空兵作战指挥对抗能力评估方法

作战指挥对抗在未来防空作战中的地位越来越重要,为科学评估防空兵作战指挥对抗能力,对防空兵作战指挥对抗系统进行了全面分析,建立了防空兵作战指挥对抗能力评估指标体系.并利用模糊数学的方法,建立该系统的模糊综合评价模型,从而为综合评估防空兵作战指挥对抗能力提供了一种方法.该方法能使定性描述定量化,客观地反映了防空兵作战指挥对抗能力的真实情况,具有一定的参考价值.     

Command Coordination and Tactical Effectiveness in Counter-insurgency Operations: Lessons from the South Korean Campaign

This article analyzes the causes of combat effectiveness of the South Korean security forces through the course of its various counter-insurgency (COIN) operations from 1948 to 1953. We argue that improvements in two interrelated aspects ultimately resulted in higher operational and tactical level performance: unified operational command structure and the subsequent improvements in tactical efficiency under the guidance of the US advisory mission. Through an in-depth case study on how a nascent army improved its capacity in combating homegrown insurgencies, we demonstrate how the actual conduct of operations itself remains just as significant in the assessment of overall COIN outcomes.     

A nation-in-the-making,in arms: control of force,strategy and the Ukrainian Volunteer Battalions

At the core of waging war and strategy is the creation, control and use of force. This article investigates the volunteer battalions that mobilized in Ukraine during the spring of 2014. It contextualizes the volunteer phenomenon and focuses on the state strategies to establish control over these militias. As ambiguous entities arising from a situation characterized by rapid social change – revolution and war – the volunteer battalions threatened existing hierarchies and questioned state authority. The situation was exacerbated by the war, which deviated from the expectations of Ukrainian combatants and Western military observers alike. The state nevertheless enjoyed a modicum of success in reining in the militias through four strategies of undermining, co-option, incorporation and coercion. While predominantly integrated into a more rigid category of paramilitary forces, the volunteers continue to play a role in both the Ukrainian society and security sector to the unforeseeable future.     

Cinema,drone warfare and the framing of counter-terrorism

The study of the cinematic representation is extremely useful in framing of counter-terrorism policies, whether in the US or elsewhere. This paper examines cinema’s interest in drone warfare as well as the lives and personalities of drone pilots. It argues that drone warfare suffers a considerable image problem that has been brought out in several recent features and it is unlikely that any major cinematic myth of drone warfare will easily develop, certainly in comparison to myths concerning special forces and special operations.     

防空兵战场控制能力评价模型

为了理解防空兵战场控制系统,分析影响战场指挥能力的因素,建立防空兵战场控制能力模型.将战场控制能力因素转化为量化指标,建立模型主要包括流程分析、指标体系建立、组织因素量化、权重计算等,运用AHP法、幂指数法建模计算,最终得出评价模型.为防空兵群战场控制能力评价提供了一种科学方法,从而便于实施防空兵群控制水平分析和战场控制资源效能分析.     

基于地理信息平台的公安边防综合指挥系统建设研究

在深入调研公安边防部队各级指挥中心业务开展的基础上,分析了当前公安边防部队指挥系统存在的问题,提出了利用地理信息平台建立适应当前边防部队业务需要的综合指挥系统的可行性及具体思路。     

论边疆民族地区应急管理机制建设的特殊性

边疆民族地区特殊的自然、史地、经济社会、宗教及文化环境,决定了边疆民族地区危机情势的特殊性。这种特殊性要求主要表现在以下五个方面：安全形势严峻,应急机制责任重大,意义特殊;客观条件限制,创构应急机制难度大,任务艰巨;经济社会发展相对落后,对应急机制资源整合能力要求高;宗教文化及民族风俗因素影响广泛,对应急机制创新性要求高等。     

海军特种作战兵力行动知识推理研究*

通过对兵力行动知识原理和兵力行动知识工程建模方法的分析,根据知识推理的特点,给出了适合的兵力行动知识表示和推理方法的选择,并着重运用三值逻辑神经网络这种兼备符号语义表示和网络传播结构的模型,解决了兵力行动推理中偏好性和主观性的规则逻辑的表示及相应的推理问题.最后,基于兵力行动推理的研究,以海军特种作战兵力行动为例,得出了兵力行动知识推理模型实现的描述.