A chessboard model of the U‐boat war in the Atlantic with applications to signals intelligence

This paper uses a simple Monte Carlo model to analyze the influence of signals intelligence on the Second World War's Battle of the Atlantic. The principle measure of effectiveness is the number of U‐boat days of attack to which convoys were subjected. A secondary measure is the number of convoyed ships sunk. The model is validated against historical data and then used to explore the effectiveness of the two sides' signals intelligence. Allied use of signals intelligence is shown to have been capable of completely offsetting German use of signals intelligence, and then some. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005     

潜艇表面涂层失效机理的研究

评述了有机涂层失效机理的现代研究方法,将电化学测试技术与现代表面分析技术和传统的涂料检测技术相结合,应用于涂层失效机理分析和寿命评估中.探讨了电化学交流阻抗谱技术在研究变海水压力作用下潜艇表面有机涂层的失效机理,以及建立腐蚀性介质渗入与涂层失效之间数学模型的可能性.     

作战系统Agent交互链的形成及其链结构变换

目前,采用基于Agent建模（Agent-Based Modeling,ABM）方法研究战术级分队层次作战系统建模,存在如何直观形象而准确地表达与实现多Agent组织模式的问题。着眼军事需求,从如何建立Agent交互链的新角度来开展作战系统建模问题研究,推动ABM方法的创新发展,深化Agent和多Agent系统（Multi-Agent System,MAS）技术研究。通过提出规范、实用的Agent交互链形成过程,确立了交互链中的链节点Agent的层次化变换机制,揭示了链节点Agent聚合／解聚和交互链结构约简／扩充同步变换的工作机理。研究结果表明：与一般的ABM方法相比,Agent交互链的形成及其链结构变换,是一种更好地实现战术级分队层次作战系统建模的新途径。     

支持潜艇态势感知的连通性网络设计及应用

以保证潜艇隐蔽性为前提,如何增强潜艇的战场态势感知能力是提升潜艇作战效能的关键。因此,以分析潜艇战场态势感知能力现状为基础,构建一种以无人平台作为战场单元,支持潜艇战场态势感知的连通性网络模型,并对其组成、功能及工作过程进行了详细设计;对战场单元的任务载荷和任务规划进行了详细阐述;最后从作战角度出发,展开连通性网络的作战应用研究。     

潜用自航式声诱饵发展有关问题探讨

对潜用自航式声诱饵发展的有关问题进行了探讨.从潜艇防御作战的特点和对手情况出发,研究了潜用自航式声诱饵所担负的作战使命,提出了受迫式和主动式使用自航式声诱饵的概念,分析了各种反潜兵力、反潜兵器和海底反潜网所具有的反水声对抗能力,以此为基础,探索现代潜用自航式声诱饵所应具备的功能.指出了潜用自航式声诱饵应具备声学、运动和尺度三维的诱骗能力,此外,潜用自航式声诱饵还应具备固定弹道射击控制模式、实时规划弹道射击控制模式等战术使用功能.     

The Dilemmas of US Maritime Supremacy in the Early Cold War

After World War II, the US Navy confronted the challenge of adapting to dramatically altered geopolitical circumstances. Moscow did not have an ocean-going fleet, and early Cold War strategy was dominated by the salient position of nuclear strategic bombing – a mission thought to be outside the purview of the navy. Traditional roles, such as protecting sea lines of communication and supporting ground forces ashore, quickly proved indispensable. However, the navy eventually also succeeded in fielding dramatic technological and institutional innovations, for example, the strategic missile submarine, which enabled the US to successfully leverage maritime power against the continental power of the USSR.     

At war with social theory: Instrumental and communicative action in US military doctrine during the War on Terror

As US counterinsurgency campaigns draw to a close, doctrine for asymmetric warfare written during the War on Terror has come under heavy criticism. While many have argued that this shift to ‘winning hearts and minds’ is evidence that the United States is taking humanitarianism and nation-building seriously, others argue that a wide gap exists between US counterinsurgency doctrine and the protection of civilians afflicted by conflict. In this article, I show that the latter is true by comparing theories of instrumental and communicative action to US doctrine for operational design, stability operations, and counterinsurgency. I argue that these texts treat the people as an object to be manipulated for the achievement of pre-determined self-interested strategic goals rather than members of a community that jointly designs operations to fulfill shared objectives. However, US doctrine does contain communicative elements that, if prioritized, would better support humanitarian and state-building objectives otherwise subordinated in the War on Terror.     

基于效果的装备保障指挥决策与体系控制研究

以探索装备保障的信息化决策与控制方法为目的,从基于效果作战的观点出发,利用概念模型,从OODA环的相互作用、混沌现象和自同步及蜂群效应3个方面,研究了网络中心条件下装备保障指挥决策与体系控制的激励与响应模式,并得出了相关结论,以此为基础提出了装备保障指挥决策与体系控制的3项建议.     

Abd el-Krim's guerrilla war against Spain and France in North Africa: An adventure setting for screen melodramas

The Riffian rebel leader Mohammed Abd el-Krim Al-Khattabi (1882–1963) became an important early guerrilla leader by successfully initiating extensively organized resistance in the Moroccan Rif against Spanish and French imperial power in the early 1920s. The Rif War triggered a wave of adventure films since the 1930s. This article will look at some of these, especially Sergeant Klems (1971) and The Wind and the Lion (1975), and suggest that they can be seen in terms of the wider impact of screen Orientalism derived from the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean. The article will show that these films promoted what it terms a colonial gaze by underlining many stereotyped cinematic clichés relating to the Islamic cultural area and Abd el-Krim's revolt that stretch back to the early history of cinema.     

海战潜艇兵力作战任务聚合、解聚与重构实现

根据海战仿真对潜艇作战仿真的多分辨率需求,采用聚合与解聚的方法对潜艇智能兵力作战行为模型进行层次划分和结构化设计,利用J2EE/EJB组件建模技术构建了潜艇智能兵力作战行为仿真组件模型,通过行为决策模型构建和多分辨率接口设计,对兵力作战任务进行解聚和聚合,仿真不同分辨率下的作战任务行为和作战指标,并通过任务行为决策控制参数调整实现兵力作战行为重构,满足了系统对智能兵力作战行为多分辨率建模和战法战术验证的功能需求,并有效提高了模型利用效率和可重用性。