Combating Islamist radicalisation in South Africa

Is radical Islamism spreading in South Africa? The answer has to be an emphatic ‘yes’. When discussing issues of radicalisation in Africa, commentators often examine the case of Somalia's al-Shabaab or al-Qaeda's North African franchise, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Very little attention is paid to radicalisation amongst South Africa's Muslim population. Yet, there is growing evidence that South Africa has come to play an important role in global jihadi networks, from the provision of safehouses and identity documents to the movement of funds and the existence of paramilitary camps for local and foreign jihadis. This paper aims to briefly examine radicalisation and its attendant sources in the country, as well as seeking ways to combat it utilising lessons learned from other countries. ‘Institutional socialisation’ by means of the sources of radicalisation, as well as the concept of what could be termed ‘the democratisation of jihad’ are discussed. The author also proposes ways to combat radicalisation in South Africa utilising lessons learned from other countries, concluding that issues of radicalisation and deradicalisation have to be dealt with on the part of both government and the South African Muslim community.     

装甲装备器材库存超(欠)储状态分析与程度评价

定义了装甲装备器材库存超(欠)储的概念,提出了维修保障资源点器材储存状态的定性判别和量化方法;考虑数量、时间、空间等影响因素,提出了资源点维修器材超(欠)储程度的评价指标和评价方法,并结合某军区实际数据进行了验证。结果表明:资源点的平均超(欠)储程度反映了保障体系内所有资源点库存偏离正常水平的平均程度,可为确定调剂资源点的优先次序和供应数量提供依据。     

隔离型DC/DC变换器的嵌入式滤波设计

传统的隔离型DC/DC变换器输入端电流断续,会对电源或负载产生严重的电磁干扰,利用嵌入式滤波(Built-in Input Filter,BIF)的方法可以实现输入电流的连续。以嵌入式滤波全桥为例对嵌入式滤波的原理进行了分析,提出了隔离型DC/DC变换器嵌入式滤波拓扑、变压器以及交叉耦合电容参数的设计方法,并用该方法推导和设计了带有嵌入式滤波功能的半桥拓扑,利用PSIM软件进行了仿真分析。搭建了新型半桥拓扑的试验样机,验证了设计方法的有效性。     

量子关联成像技术

作为一种新型的成像技术,关联成像受到了国内外学者的广泛关注。本文阐述了量子关联成像的基本原理,介绍了量子关联成像研究历史,对量子关联成像的特点及其可能的应用进行了简要介绍。     

The German wars of liberation 1807–1815: The restrained insurgency

In the Age of Napoleon, ‘small wars’ and ‘revolutionary war’ were closely connected. There were, however, different strands of this phenomenon: speaking professionally, conservative officers condemned small wars as an irregular regression to previous less disciplined forms of warfare. The Prussian state continually tried to discipline and regulate spontaneous risings. Yet the irregular character of small wars offered the opportunities for a less complex way of fighting, thus enabling the arming of the ‘people’ to fight. Individual undertakings, such as Ferdinand von Schill's doomed campaign in 1809, were designed to spark off a general popular uprising. But they were cheered by many and supported by few. Meanwhile, Neidhardt von Gneisenau conceived guerrilla-style Landsturm home-defence forces, which were designed for an irregular people's war. These concepts were put into practice in the ‘war of freedom’ – or ‘war of liberation’ – in 1813. Eventually both the mobilisation and the tactics remained regular, however, despite the emphatic appeal to a national ‘people's war’.     

Critics gone wild: Counterinsurgency as the root of all evil

The Western interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced a heated polemic concerning the merits and demerits of counterinsurgency – the operational approach underpinning both campaigns. The two books reviewed here provide a good summation of the arguments against counterinsurgency: it is not a strategy and will fail when mistaken as such; its theory does not make intervention and war significantly easier; and even the most successful counterinsurgency campaigns have been bloody, violent, and protracted. Yet as this review highlights, beyond these central points, criticism of counterinsurgency is too often off the mark in its approach and totalizing in its pretentions. There is much to criticize and an urgent need to learn from past campaigns, yet bold claims and broad generalizations can mislead rather than enlighten. The analysis is particularly unhelpful when the definition of the central issue at hand – counterinsurgency – is being unwittingly or deliberately distorted. In the end, these two books form a poor basis for the debate that must now take place, because they are too ideological in tone, too undisciplined in approach, and therefore too unqualified in what they finally say.     

雷达天线扫描方式的自动识别方法

为了对雷达天线扫描方式进行自动识别,改进开发了天线扫描方式模拟器,并分别研究了电子扫描和机械扫描的特征提取和识别方法。基于最大主瓣脉冲序列的特征参数实现电子扫描和机械扫描的区分,然后基于单个天线扫描周期脉冲序列的特征参数实现8种机械扫描方式的自动识别。仿真结果表明,本文方法能够区分一维电扫、二维电扫和机械扫描,并且采用支持向量机决策树对机械扫描方式的识别正确率高于决策树方法。     

MEMS磁力线聚集和垂动调制磁场传感器

针对巨磁阻和磁隧道结等磁阻元件的1/f噪声,提出一种采用微机电系统的磁力线聚集和垂动调制磁场传感器。通过将被测磁场从低频转移到几kHz,实现对磁场的DC/AC转化,从而减小了磁阻元件的1/f噪声。基于该方案采用多层膜巨磁阻元件AA002制作了磁场传感器样品,并进行了实验测试,结果表明:磁传感器样品的调制效率达到了19.3%,超过了已有的其他各种调制方案,同时低频磁场的探测能力达到槡120pT/Hz,相比巨磁阻元件AA002提高了40多倍。     

基于视景模拟的无人机导弹发射仿真

无人机单侧导弹发射后,无人机重量特性、重心位置、气动特性发生变化并同时产生附加的干扰力矩,无人机需要在控制系统作用下尽快恢复稳态飞行。通过在Matlab/Simulink中建立无人机六自由度非线性力学模型、控制系统模型、发动机模型、重力模型、标准大气模型、flight gear软件接口等,模拟仿真无人机单侧导弹发射过程,同时将仿真结果进行可视化视景输出,确保无人机系统平台在导弹发射过程中无人机能够很快恢复稳定姿态并按照预定轨迹飞行。视景模拟仿真结果表明：该无人机平台能够顺利完成导弹的安全发射。     

航母编队特点及对策研究

为了打赢未来可能发生的高技术局部战争,必须深入研究航母编队特点,积极探索能有效克制航母编队的战法。从航母编队的作战编成、攻防体系和队形以及C3I系统的结构及功能等方面分析了航母编队的特点,重点研究了航母编队C3I系统的特点。针对其特点,提出了几点抗击航母编队的对策。