The human consequences of foreign military intervention

The empirical international conflict literature has given much recent attention to interstate armed force’s impact on human well-being. While empirical research has advanced our understanding of the phenomenon considerably, we argue that one conclusion that many studies have reached is preliminary. Some recent research contends that only full-scale war, and not force short of war, has a discernable impact on human welfare or physical quality of life (PQOL). We develop theory on one type of force short of war, large-scale foreign military intervention (FMI), and its potential effects on PQOL. Using interrupted time series and panel corrected standard error methodologies, we find that from 1960 to 2005 large-scale FMI had a statistically and substantively significant impact on the PQOL of populations in 106 developing countries. The specific effect that this type of armed force has depended in large part on the regime type of the target country.     

When the military become a security and political threat: Zimbabwean army generals in electoral politics

The military poses an ongoing threat to modern democratic rule in some African countries, especially in the Zimbabwean context. This paper reveals the ways in which Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) generals have played a political role in the Zimbabwean elections, an issue which is both a political threat and a security threat to the state. It is argued that the ways in which ZNA generals engage in the political process goes against Section 208(2) of the constitution of Zimbabwe, which summarily states that the military must be apolitical. In substantiating this argument, the paper presents and analyses various public speeches made by army generals. It is contended that the army generals’ support of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and President Robert Mugabe has to be understood as a ‘mutual accommodation’, i.e. the generals are offered privileges in return for the political protection of the ruling regime which negatively impacts the security of the vote.     

军队基层干部弱势心理研究

在科学界定弱势心理的基础上,通过分析军队基层干部弱势心理的表现形式,查找出深层次原因;从弱化外部环境的消极影响、强化职责意识、提高自我认识入手,探索行之有效的化解方法;通过积极化解弱势心理,提高基层干部的职责意识。     

武器装备采办实行招标制探讨

总结了外军采办中招标的经验 ,阐明了我军招标工作的重要性和必要性 ,分析了武器装备招标的特点 ,对装备采办如何招标投标进行了探讨 ,提出了招标中应注意的若干问题     

无刷双馈电机原理及控制策略

详细分析了无刷双馈发电机的基本原理,基于不同的参考坐标系(转子轴dq0坐标系和同步坐标系),建立了无刷双馈发电机不同的数学模型.依据建立的数学模型,介绍了无刷双馈发电机的几种控制策略(标量控制、磁场定向控制、直接转矩控制、智能控制方法),并指出其优缺点.最后,指出了无刷双馈发电机运行控制中存在的难点和进一步研究的方向.     

新经济与图书馆信息服务创新

本文简要介绍了新经济的概念及特征,探讨了图书馆面临新经济的挑战和机遇,并对图书馆信息服务的创新及其发展趋势进行了论述.     

军事通信网节点重要度评估方法

针对军事通信网的应用环境和业务流传输的特殊性,考虑节点类型以及节点之间的相互关系,将节点按功能分为侦察节点、处理节点、指控节点、行动节点、传输节点五类节点。根据军事通信网信息流传输的特点,改进了传统的网络介数基本概念,定义了符合军事通信网特征的节点和链路重要度的新指标。最后,通过实例对军事通信网的节点重要度进行仿真计算,画出了所有节点重要度柱状分布图。     

论边防行政复议存在的问题及对策

边防行政复议是规范边防行政执法和对边防行政执法相对人权益进行救济的重要途径。当前边防行政复议主要存在立法不完善、复议机构设置不完善、复议工作人员法律素质偏低、复议案件审查程序不严谨等方面的问题。加强和完善边防行政复议,主要应从立法、机构设置、转变观念等方面入手。     

内燃机噪声控制的现状与发展

军用装备动力设备噪声过大严重影响指战员的通讯,对身心会造成严重的伤害.介绍了内燃机噪声控制技术的发展过程和最新技术,对隔声罩的设计作了较为详细的阐述.针对军用装备动力设备噪声过大的问题,提出采用隔声罩是较为行之有效的处理方法.     

Think again – supplying war: reappraising military logistics and its centrality to strategy and war

This article argues that logistics constrains strategic opportunity while itself being heavily circumscribed by strategic and operational planning. With the academic literature all but ignoring the centrality of logistics to strategy and war, this article argues for a reappraisal of the critical role of military logistics, and posits that the study and conduct of war and strategy are incomplete at best or false at worst when they ignore this crucial component of the art of war. The article conceptualises the logistics–strategy nexus in a novel way, explores its contemporary manifestation in an age of uncertainty, and applies it to a detailed case study of UK operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.