The Israel Defense Forces as an epistemic authority: An intellectual challenge in the reality of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict

The changes in the nature of warfare and its transformation toward Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) intrastate conflict have challenged the patterns of interaction between the political and the military echelons in Israel. It seems that the political echelon's superiority is maintained at the institutional and formal levels, but on the substantive level, which demands relying on knowledge and systematic staff work, the political echelon's position is weakened and loses its validity.

Introducing the military echelon in Israel as an epistemic authority regarding the violent confrontation and the main outlines of the military knowledge development process might clarify why the absence of the required dialogue between the echelons and the weakness of the intellectual effort increased the military's influence over the shaping of Israeli conflict-management strategy. The argument's validity and its explanatory power can be found relevant for other countries whose militaries are deeply involved in the management of LIC.     

中亚四国伊斯兰教现状及对我国的启示

无论在历史上还是在现实中,伊斯兰教对中亚四国的政治、经济、文化等社会各方面都产生了深远的影响。在分析研究中亚四国伊斯兰教现状的基础上,阐述其对我国的启示。     

基于网络分析法的弹药生产响应能力影响因素

针对未来战场对弹药需求动态、突发、受任务冲击影响等特点,提出弹药生产响应能力概念,建立了任务冲击条件下弹药生产响应能力影响因素的指标体系。运用网络分析法,建立典型结构的弹药生产响应能力影响因素的网络模型,得出弹药生产响应能力的关键影响因素,为弹药生产响应能力分析与提高提供了科学研究方法。     

射向保持方案及影响其精度的因素分析

介绍用于压制兵器的射向保持器的工作原理和计算方法,并通过计算机仿真分析了计算机字长,计算步长,仪器安装糟度以及陀螺仪测量精度等因素对射向保持器精度的影响。     

城市环境安全评价初探

环境安全研究目前主要停留在定性描述或定量评价自然生态安全阶段。考虑 到大中城市在经济建设和社会发展中的重要功能及城市生态系统的结构特殊性,首先定义 了城市环境安全范畴,并探讨了城市环境安全评价方法,提出了评价的程序和评价指标的选 择原则,最后提出了一个城市环境安全评价指标体系。     

军事指挥控制中的贝叶斯决策支持

军事指挥控制是一个复杂的决策过程,该过程中信息是结合定性的专家知识和定量的融合数据而得到的.贝叶斯网为指挥控制系统提供了一个框架来处理这种专家知识和具体数据相结合的问题,并且影响图作为贝叶斯网的延伸可被用于分析指挥控制系统中某个决策的可行性.进一步地,为了减少所需指定的条件概率的数量并引入时变的概念,提出动态影响网作为一种新的决策支持方法.     

基于贝叶斯网络的武器装备可靠性分析

针对复杂系统,尤其是国外进口武器装备可靠性判断的局限性,研究了一种基于贝叶斯网络的可靠性评估方法。结合系统连接逻辑与贝叶斯网络的映射关系建立了可靠性评估模型,并用该方法对机载吊舱和航空动力系统的可靠性进行了分析。结果表明,该方法不仅能够快速计算系统的可靠度,确定出某一组件(部件)对系统可靠性的影响程度,而且可以为其他进口装备的分析提供参考。     

恐怖活动对新疆边境地区的影响及对策

长期以来,新疆恐怖活动组织与＂三股势力＂相勾结,制造了多起恐怖活动事件,给新疆边境地区的安全与稳定带来了严重威胁。为此,针对新疆边境地区的特殊性以及恐怖活动的态势,分析了恐怖活动对新疆边境地区的影响,从提升反恐的主动发现能力、加强情报预警工作、加强防范措施的严密性等方面提出了遏制新疆恐怖活动的对策。     

高考弃考现象探析及对策研究

本文以高考弃考为研究对象,从城市学生弃考留学、农村学生无奈弃考、国内教育制度及用人制度自身弊端三个方面探析高考弃考产生的原因,进而阐述高考弃考本身兼具的积极影响和消极影响,最后提出对策建议:引入市场竞争机制,提升教育国际竞争力;创设多元成才途径,重视终身教育;拓宽就业渠道,转变就业心态;高校自身采取有效手段积极调整;切实推进教育制度改革。     

Witchcraft and African development

Impressive investment and growth figures and commercial write-ups enthusing about ‘Africa rising up’, ‘the continent of the future’, and so on, obscure the poverty, illiteracy, poor health and other hardships afflicting the vast majority of African people. Why has massive so-called development and technical ‘aid’ not created the expected dynamic, autonomous economic progress? A blind eye is delicately being turned to the decisive role of people – more specifically, the cultural element. Notwithstanding good intentions, outsiders seeking to promote development assume that black Africans think and act like they only need more education, training and finance in order to ‘catch up’. Outsiders easily forget that since time immemorial, Africans have developed and cherished worldviews and cultures of their own. While these are by no means immutable and do adapt to changing needs and outside influences, Africans refuse to cast off overnight the heritage that makes them the people they are. This paper examines the impact of witchcraft as an integral feature of traditional culture on African existence, notably community life, religion, politics, the law, and economic practice. It stresses the significance of traditional society's powerful egalitarian impulses as well as its profound conviction that all things – goods, wealth, well-being and life force – are in a strictly limited supply that cannot be increased, but can only be redistributed by force or through magical manipulation. While modern life gradually weakens the influence of witchcraft beliefs – in Europe these flourished well into the 18th century – the exasperation associated with Africa's headlong urbanisation actually bolsters these beliefs.