Resourcing for defense: Solving the roles and missions puzzle

One of the most important issues facing the post‐Cold War U.S. defense establishment concerns the future allocation of combat tasks and responsibilities among different branches of the armed forces. The challenge is to reduce unnecessary redundancy across roles and missions when resources are highly constrained, without compromising military effectiveness. Defining the policy problem as one of resource allocation rather than operational effectiveness, we develop a methodology for allocating roles and missions. Our methodology focuses at the highest level of force aggregation and uses a mathematical programming model to produce cross‐service cross‐mission trade‐offs that will yield the best total force combat and non‐combat potential within resource consumption constraints.     

U.S.–RUSSIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION AND THE CTBT

Post-Cold War “lab-to-lab” collaborations on unclassified scientific issues between U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons laboratories set the stage for bilateral cooperation in materials control and other nuclear areas. They also became the major element in a cooperative process initiated by a Presidential Decision Directive to ensure Russia's compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. These collaborations have always been highly favored by leaders of the Russian nuclear weapons complex—the same leaders who oversee Russia's participation in various government-to-government programs. This article reviews these collaborations and examines the possibility that U.S. rebuffs of Russian proposals and the U.S. failure to keep promises of expanded collaboration could contribute to Russia's reluctance in major programs and even lead to a return to nuclear testing by Russia. The author argues that a renewed U.S. commitment to the process should be an immediate goal of the Obama administration and is an essential step in re-engaging Russia to solve the nuclear problems remaining from the Cold War. Steps for doing so are recommended.     

基于DPA的LED非线性部件逆向研究

在军事和商业应用中有很多密码算法是半公开或者不公开的,旨在证明算法保密对密码的安全性提高并没有明显帮助．针对轻型分组密码LED的未知非线性部件S盒,提出了一种基于差分功耗分析的逆向方法,该方法可以利用差分功耗曲线的极性信息来恢复未知算法结构．实验结果表明,在LED的S盒参数未知时,利用功耗采集平台采集算法运行时泄露的旁路功耗信息,可以成功逆向出全部s盒信息,验证了该方法的可行性．     

火炮抽筒故障机理研究

针对某自行反坦克炮射击后,抽筒时出现药筒钢底座底缘与圆柱部断裂现象这一抽筒故障,分析计算该火炮正常抽筒所需的理论抽筒力和半自动开闩机构所能提供的实际抽筒力,由此定量分析该故障的主要原因,并提出火炮实弹射击预防抽筒故障的具体措施,对半自动开闩结构设计与改进、部队装备训练与射击具有一定指导和参考价值．     

潜艇不机动纯方位解算编队目标运动要素方法

针对单艘潜艇纯方位目标定位必须潜艇机动才能使算法收敛的问题,首次采用几何分析法研究了潜艇不机动情况下,解算编队目标运动要素的方法;然后,基于最小二乘法,给出了具体的解算模型,并给定态势,进行实例仿真。证明该算法能够满足潜艇隐蔽对编队目标定位的需要,进一步丰富了潜艇纯方位目标定位方法。     

基于Matlab四杆式液压起落机构运动学与动力学分析

提出了一种可用于加油卷盘升降的四杆式液压起落机构的设计方案。分析了四杆式液压起落机构的工作原理,采用复数向量法建立了运动学和动力学数学模型。利用Matlab软件编制了相应的程序进行实例分析和计算,得到了机构关键点的仿真轨迹和有关构件的角位移、角速度及角加速度曲线。运用理论分析计算和软件仿真,验证了机构设计的合理性和方案的可行性。     

基于漏搜信息的剩余水雷评估模型

在声纳搜索水雷任务中,为提高剩余雷数估计的准确性,加强作战辅助决策能力,针对现有评估模型未考虑漏搜区和重叠区,评估结果误差和离散性较大的问题,提出一种修正发现雷数的方法：对任务区建立网格,根据记录航迹获得的覆盖次数分布情况,从中提取出漏搜信息,并用其修正发现雷数向量。该方法有效解决了评估向量误差大、维数偏低的缺陷,显著提高了合理性。对典型情况的大量仿真试验证明,该方法能大幅度提高评估结果的准确性,降低离散性,并具有更强的适应性。     

装备保障资源确定技术研究与需求分析系统开发

维修资源是实施装备维修工作的物质基础和重要保证,无论是平时训练还是战时抢修,维修资源都占据着十分重要的地位,不仅影响着装备的寿命周期费用(Life Cycle Costs,LCC),还直接影响着装备的战备完好率以及部队战斗力的保持和恢复.应用更加科学高效的方法确定保障资源,是维修决策面临的重要问题之一.据此,着眼于部队装备维修保障现状需求,将维修任务分配与保障资源需求紧密结合,提出了保障资源确定分析流程,并对分析过程中的关键技术进行了相应的研究,建立了典型的维修决策模型,优化了保障资源配置.最后开发了计算机辅助决策分析系统,为维修资源的优化配置起到了很好的辅助决策作用.     

DoDAF的末段反导C2BM系统需求分析

末段反导指控与作战管理(Command,Control and Battle Manangement,C2BM)系统是末段反导系统的指挥控制中心.在系统分析末段反导系统的组成及末段反导C2BM系统工作过程的基础上,初步探讨了基于DoDAF(Department of Defense Architecture Framework)的末段反导C2BM系统需求分析方法和步骤,建立了末段反导C2BM系统的作战视图,对末段反导C2BM系统的体系结构及其信息交互进行了深入分析和可视化建模,保证了对末段反导C2BM系统需求理解的一致性,有效促进了军事人员与分析设计人员间的沟通和交流,为后续的开发夯实坚实的基础.     

Lost through non-translation: bringing Clausewitz's writings on ‘new wars’ back in

While Carl von Clausewitz has generally been respected as one of the most profound philosophers of war, his expertise has been regarded as somewhat limited if not even irrelevant to the so-called ‘new wars’ of the post-Cold War world. Many scholars in international relations have claimed that ‘new wars’ are essentially ‘post-Clausewitzian’ and ‘post-trinitarian’ in nature, meaning that they are no longer fathomable through a Clausewitzian framework. However Clausewitz's earlier writings were nearly exclusively dedicated to guerrilla warfare, or what he called ‘small wars’. These writings have been largely overlooked by many analysts of contemporary conflicts. By drawing on his rare and untranslated writings, the article uncovers a critical part of Clausewitz's expertise in asymmetric warfare and shows that, far from being irrelevant in an age where interstate warfare is increasingly being replaced by conflicts between states and semi-/non-state actors, Clausewitz's philosophical writings actually shed new light into the particular interactive dynamics generated during wars waged under conditions of asymmetry.