Mapping Human Terrain in the Joint Army–Navy Intelligence Study of Korea (1945)

The concept of human terrain has become a prominent element of U.S. military strategy. It is a means to capture the cultural–geographical qualities of an enemy or target population. An early effort to map human terrain is found in the Joint Army–Navy Intelligence Study (JANIS) of Korea (1945). We argue that the JANIS report on Korea was paradigmatic for the U.S. military's contemporary geographical work and offers insights into the cultural politics of human terrain mapping. This explains why the JANIS text is cited by the National Geospatial-Intelligence College (NGC) today as an historical model. This article not only offers a window into the history of geography counterinsurgent but also shows that geography has been entwined with empire.     

大夏国都统万城选址合理性辨析

位于毛乌素沙地南缘的统万城遗址,因其城宏伟的规模、历史上的重要地位,是学者研究历史时期生态背景、文化、政治经济的重要时空坐标。作为大夏国都,其存续时间从公元419年至公元427年,区区9年时间,可谓"兴也勃焉,亡也忽焉"。从自然环境背景、资源承载能力、军事战略地位3方面对该城的选址做了详细分析,认为该城作为大夏国都在一定程度上是不合理的。赫连勃勃勇则勇矣,将国都定在统万城却并不具有全局思维,其自然环境、资源承载能力以及军事防御能力均无法满足国都设置的条件,尤其将国都设置在战争前沿,无法达到长治久安的目的。因此,建城之后多次受到北魏军队的正面攻击,并很快被攻克,大夏国因之灭亡。统万城在历史上行政地位逐渐降低,并最终淹没在黄沙之中,是历史的必然结果。     

三维态势图符号以及表达的研究

针对三维态势图中的符号变量研究没有统一标准,以及表达方式的合理性上还没有一致的定论。文中运用地图符号学中符号设计的理论,考虑到信息化战争对战场态势图的要求,系统分析美军作战标号系统的构成规则,对我军的态势符号设计以及三维态势表达上提供几点参考建议。     

试论军事地球物理学

从地球物理学的历史与现状出发,探讨了建立一门新学科——“军事地球物理学”的目的与意义,进而讨论了军事地球物理学的学科内涵与外延、研究对象与方法、研究任务与发展方向,并重点介绍了地球物理战与地球物理武器,最后就学科的建立与发展提出了几点设想与建议。     

城市军事地理系统与空间结构

本文在讨论现代城市军事作用的基础上,运用系统论和区位论的方法探讨建立城市军事地理系统和城市军事地理空间结构的有关理论。     

Spaces of unintended consequences: The Ground Safety Zone in Kosovo

In the spring of 1999 NATO conducted a 79-day air campaign against Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) to force that country to cease the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians and to force the withdrawal of Yugoslavian forces from the province. In June of 1999 a NATO led military force (KFOR or Kosovo Force) entered Kosovo to reestablish a safe and secure environment. Shortly thereafter ethnic Albanian armed extremists groups launched an insurgency in the neighboring Presevo Valley of Southern Serbia in a bid to join the predominantly ethnic Albanian population of that area with Kosovo. The rebels used the five-kilometer wide Ground Safety Zone, established by NATO, as a sanctuary from which to attack Serb police and military units. NATO and KFOR found themselves in the predicament of having to halt this insurgency while maintaining the peace in Kosovo. This paper provides a case study in applied political geography that examines the unintended consequences of creating an uncontrolled political and security space in the midst of a zone of conflict. Additionally, this paper will present a revised application of the concept of Peace Geography for the Post Cold War Era. Peace Geography involves the elements of association, disassociation, and isolation. These elements proved to be critical in bringing the Presevo Valley Insurrection to a peaceful conclusion, and this revised and updated peace geography shows great promise for future peacekeeping operations. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM: A MILITARY GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE*

ABSTRACT. The war in Iraq has spanned the full spectrum of military operations: intense combat, stability‐and‐support operations, and peacetime activities. Regardless of their nature and relative intensity, military operations are shaped by the characteristics of the military operating environment. Consequently, the scale, tempo, and complexity of any type of military endeavor are linked to the physical and cultural landscapes of the region in which it is conducted. Military geographers use geographical information, tools, and techniques to examine those links. Iraq's operating environment is studied to identify the relevant components of its physical and human geography. This military geographical examination of Iraq tells us a great deal about how the physical and cultural environment have influenced the war, as well as how the complexity of its human landscape continues to affect the postwar rebuilding of the country.     

基于COM结构的军事标图组件的设计与实现

针对当前军事标图软件在灵活性和可移植性等方面的缺陷，文中以组件式软件设计思想为指导，设计并实现了军事标图组件ComPlot，并通过应用实例验证了该组件的各项功能。     

基于用户和卫星概略位置的信号传播时延估计

辅助长码直捕的一个最重要的先验信息是时间信息,卫星信号传播时延估计是减少时域搜索范围的一个重要方面。针对地面静止用户,给出了基于用户和卫星概略位置的卫星信号传播时延估计算法,并指出用户和卫星位置误差对传播时延的影响可以分离计算。数值计量考印,即使用户和卫星的位置误差均达到1000km,也能将传播时延不确定范围压缩一半。