‘A Time of War’: contextual and organisational dimensions in the construction of combat motivation in the IDF

This paper explores the construction of combat motivation in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), arguing that although Israeli society at large is in a ‘Post Heroic’ era, the ‘Heroic Spirit’ is revealed during emergencies. A total of 1535 questionnaires were administered among combat soldiers during large-scale operations fought during national emergency and during small-scale routine operations. The results reveal differences in the construction of combat motivation typical for emergency vs. routine, as well as for reserves vs. regular units. These results indicate that the Post Heroic era is a condition that could be shifted according to cultural, organisational and individual determinants. This paper discusses the roots of these constructions and their implications on the theory of combat motivation and combat experience.     

A usable past: a contemporary approach to history for the Western profession of arms

The most effective way for the Western profession of arms to use history is to disavow the purism and narrow specialisation of today’s academia in favour of developing a contemporary approach to the subject. The latter aims to foster a range of applied diagnostic skills that transcend the temporal dimensions of past, present, and future. A contemporary approach to history for military professionals emphasises the use of inter-disciplinary war studies to enhance policy relevance. In any defense and security organisation, history must be usable in the sense of providing cognitive and interpretative skills for probing relationships between possibility and actuality, between experience and expectation, and between singularity and repetition. Using history to examine such dialectical interconnections is particularly valuable when military establishments confront their essential task of analyzing emerging trends in the future of war.     

自动化武器的发展及对未来战争的影响

在信息技术和生命技术革命的双重影响下,人工智能发展突飞猛进,剧烈改变着现代军事技术发展方向。战争形态由信息化逐步向智能化转变。自动化武器作为智能化装备重要的组成部分,其发展经历了三级进阶,愈发趋向人机一体和全自主化方向改变。这种发展趋势对引领未来战争产生重要而深远的影响。伴随着武器无人化、智能化、自主化的发展趋向,如何有效研发、利用、管控自动化武器成为未来无人化战争的重要议题。同时世界各国对自动化武器的研发部署也加剧了国际军控的紧张,特别是致命性自主武器的出现将有可能对战争伦理和法律构成前所未有的挑战,这将成为国际社会必须认真审视的问题。     

基于兰彻斯特型方程的网络攻防行动分析

互联网的高速发展在带来社会发展与文明进步的同时,也让世界对网络更加依赖,随之而来的网络空间军备竞赛、网络犯罪和网络恐怖主义,使网络空间的攻防行动变得愈加频繁,网络空间安全形势愈发严峻。本文利用兰彻斯特型方程建立网络攻防模型来分析网络攻防行动,证明网络攻防行动是非对称的作战手段和新时代的游击战争,并得出对我国网络空间国防力量建设的启示。      

智能化作战及军队战略推进与发展

未来智能化战争将是基于物联网络信息系统,使用智能化武器装备及相应作战方法,在陆、海、空、天、电、网及认知领域进行的一体化战争。本文在分析智能化作战的内涵有机理基础上,探讨了美军未来智能化作战构想、实施及影响,重点提出了应对未来知能化作战,加强我军战略推进与发展的对策。     

The ‘first’ surge: the repulse of the Easter Invasion in South Vietnam, 1972 – implications for Iraq and Afghanistan

In a military intervention, do surges work? I compare the failed ‘surge’ in Vietnam, the repulse of the Easter Invasion in 1972, as a means of assessing the more ambiguous surges in Iraq and Afghanistan. I identify four features of a surge for this analysis: the military dimensions and strategy of the surging forces, the military capabilities of the host forces, the political vitality and will of the host country, and the political commitment in the domestic politics of the intervener. I find that the last feature is the most critical; and, in all three surges, the American political commitment was lacking.     

对RWR/ESM系统中象限判别概率的研究

随着现代战场电磁环境日趋复杂,辐射源不断增多,脉冲丢失成为机载RWR/ESM系统的一个严重问题。在机载RWR/ESM系统各射频前端通道发生脉冲交叠的基础上,分析了机载RWR/ESM系统测向环节在象限判别过程中的脉冲丢失概率,推导出脉冲象限判别概率的工程估算公式。最后通过仿真验证了机载RWR/ESM系统象限判别过程中,脉冲的象限鉴别正确概率与其输入脉冲密度之间的关系。     

复杂电磁环境舰艇电子对抗仿真系统研究

针对目前舰艇电子对抗装备作战效能分析、作战使用方法研究和训练平台实用性不强的现状,采用复杂电磁环境生成技术,运用电子对抗作战使用理论,结合系列研练电子对抗反导积累相关数据,建立电子对抗仿真模型,实现仿真系统控制、复杂电磁环境接收与生成、三维海战场环境仿真显示、多型电子对抗显控界面仿真、舰艇电子对抗作战效能评估、舰艇电子对抗仿真训练成绩评定等功能,研制贴近实际的复杂电磁环境水面舰艇电子对抗装备作战运用仿真系统,以充分发挥舰艇电子对抗装备的作战潜能。     

效力准则的电子战干扰效果度量的研究

探讨了舰载电子战系统干扰效果的度量准则,分析了压制干扰对反舰导弹的单发命中概率的影响,从研究系统射击效力指标的角度出发,提出一种新的评定舰载电子战干扰效果的准则——效力准则。并通过算例得出典型情况下系统施放压制性干扰时机与反舰导弹单发命中概率之间的关系。     

通信对抗装备软件质量保证若干问题探讨

论述了通信对抗装备软件质量保证的基本内涵 ,在分析软件质量保证实施中存在的突出问题的基础上 ,提出了加强软件质量保证工作应该采取的对策