Building the sinews of power: India in the Second World War

ABSTRACT

This article analyses the military transformations that India underwent during the Second World War. It focuses on the institutional dimension of these changes and considers the longer-term changes wrought by the war in the composition of the army, the logistical and support infrastructure and the emergence of an indigenous military industrial base. Taken together, the article argues, these changes positioned India as a potential regional military power that was qualitatively different from the interwar period.     

The Somali National Army: an assessment

To engage properly with the Somali National Army, to understand it in the hope of improving stability and the lives of over 12 million Somalis, good basic information on its composition and characteristics is necessary. Authoritative accounts on the subject have been scarce for over 25 years. This account seeks to detail the army’s dispositions across southern Somalia, and, more importantly, the brigades’ clan compositions and linkages. Clan ties supersede loyalties to the central government. The army as it stands is a collection of former militias which suffer from ill-discipline and commit crime along with greater atrocities. Estimates of numbers are unreliable, but there might be 13,000 or more fighters in six brigades in the Mogadishu area and five beyond.     

Single‐machine scheduling with deadlines to minimize the total weighted late work

We consider scheduling a set of jobs with deadlines to minimize the total weighted late work on a single machine, where the late work of a job is the amount of processing of the job that is scheduled after its due date and before its deadline. This is the first study on scheduling with the late work criterion under the deadline restriction. In this paper, we show that (i) the problem is unary NP‐hard even if all the jobs have a unit weight, (ii) the problem is binary NP‐hard and admits a pseudo‐polynomial‐time algorithm and a fully polynomial‐time approximation scheme if all the jobs have a common due date, and (iii) some special cases of the problem are polynomially solvable.     

计算机网络通信系统在消防安全工作中的应用

针对公众聚集场所、消防安全重点单位,探讨如何利用计算机网络及通信系统做好消防工作,并提出了计算机报警系统误报率、漏报率较高等问题的解决办法。     

加强和改进大学生思想政治工作的思考

新形势下的大学生思想政治工作面临着许多新的挑战,如何在新形势下开展大学生思想政治工作是广大高校工作者必须思考的一个重要课题。分析大学生思想政治工作面临的新情况、新问题,提出相关对策对加强和改进大学生思想政治工作具有重要的现实意义。     

论“小组工作”对大学生就业指导的作用

近年来高校毕业生就业难成为热点问题,大学生就业指导工作由此显得极为重要。小组工作是一种多元化的工作方式,它作为社会工作三大专业方法之一,被广泛运用于各类社会团体中,以其高效性和实用性广受好评。将这种方法运用于就业指导中,整合集体辅导与个人辅导的优势,是一个全新的尝试,它将为就业指导的个性化提供全新的视角和广泛的支持。     

辐射传热时活塞式气缸中加热气体的最大膨胀功

对热辐射传热定律q∝Δ(T4)下,给定初态内能、体积,末态体积以及过程时间时,加热气体膨胀的最优构型进行了研究,利用最优控制理论得出最大膨胀功输出时膨胀的最优构型由两个瞬时绝热分支和一个E-L分支组成的结论.给出了各分支之间转换点参数的求解方法及最优构型的数值算例,最后将线性唯象传热定律、牛顿传热定律、平方传热定律、立方传热定律和辐射传热定律下加热气体膨胀的最优构型进行了比较.结果显示,随着传热指数的增加,理想气体的内能呈现出明显的整体增加趋势,而体积则呈现出明显的整体减小趋势.     

中国警卫工作在社会视角中的误区

中国警卫工作始终披着神秘面纱,面纱遮盖住警卫工作诸多秘密,也造成社会视角中对中国警卫工作认知的扭曲;社会生活中群众对警卫工作的扭曲认识,严重影响了警卫部队建设和警卫工作的开展。分析社会对警卫工作产生扭曲认识的原因,对警卫概念、发展史、基本机构和作用等方面加以介绍,还中国警卫工作一个真实面目。     

对学员思想政治教育针对性的调查与思考

学员思想政治教育存在观念、内容、方式、队伍建设等方面诸多问题,急需有针对性地加以解决。应本着发现问题、分析问题和解决问题的思路,透过现象看本质,提出加强学员思想政治教育策略,着力在突出变、精、活、实、新上下功夫。     

无人作战系统发展对陆军建设影响

无人作战系统已成为影响现代战争的重要手段,本文针对无人作战系统特点和趋势,详细分析了对陆军作战的影响,并就提高思想认识、组织核心技术攻关、加强专业人才建设、开展无人系统研究,对陆军无人作战系统建设提出了思考。