PART I: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF “THE MYTH OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE”

Several years ago, Ward Wilson presented in this journal a wide-ranging challenge to what every generation of national security scholars and practitioners since the end of World War II has been taught about nuclear weapons. He asserted that nuclear deterrence amounts to far less than its proponents have claimed and provocatively suggested that nuclear deterrence is a myth. Relying upon both empirical and theoretical objections to nuclear deterrence, he concluded that its failures were clear-cut and indisputable, whereas its successes were speculative. Yet in spite of a flourishing trade in scholarly articles, think tank reports, blog posts, and opinion pieces concerning nuclear deterrence, nobody—including nuclear weapons scholars—has ventured more than a limited critique of Wilson's essay. There are, however, serious shortcomings in Wilson's arguments—deficiencies that make his essay an unpersuasive brief against nuclear deterrence. Wilson's thesis could be correct. His arguments, however, are unlikely to persuade any skeptical members of Congress, upon whom future progress in arms control depends, to reconsider the value they attach to nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence.

     

探索智能化时代颠覆性技术与新军事变革发展

军事智能化是世界新军事变革发展的重要趋势。本文结合人类社会向智能化演进和军事智能化发展的背景,把握智能化时代科技创新节奏加速和颠覆性技术集中涌现特点规律,辨析新兴潜在颠覆性技术对军事各领域带来的影响,提出智能化时代加快构建利于颠覆性技术创新运用环境的若干建议。     

核试验地震核查的模糊逻辑推理综合识别方法

建立了一种增强性模糊推理方法,用来满足综合地震事件识别判据的需求。利用这种推理方法进行了地震事件模糊逻辑推理综合识别方法研究,给出了方法的框架。实例研究表明这种综合识别方法在核试验地震监测中有减少可疑事件数量的能力。     

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.