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Introduction 介绍
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2021.2005888
J. Bronk, Jack Watling
Humans are naturally drawn to stories, since we use narratives to make sense of a complex world, to order information into chains of causality, and to communicate and respond to ideas. Confronted with novel technologies or tactics, we are often drawn to narrative vignettes of how these capabilities could be employed in order to visualise their effects. However, narratives are not merely descriptive; they implicitly promote frameworks that prompt behaviour and judgement. It has long been recognised in economics that narratives shape expectations, stimulate imagination and guide investment decisions in ways that empirical analysis often struggles to match. Within Defence, the shaping influence of uncritically accepted narratives can have problematic consequences. In many areas of defence policy, such as cyber warfare, space or novel weapons systems, deep subject matter expertise is required to understand the potential benefits and limitations. The same is true of attempts to assess the policies and actions of strategic competitors with very different cultural and geopolitical viewpoints. Crucial nuances and practical constraints are almost unavoidably lost in translation as senior decision-makers shape policy and generalists rewrite doctrine and strategy documents based on their own understanding of briefings given by specialist practitioners and subject matter experts. This tendency is exacerbated by a natural inclination to over-hype the potential for novel technologies or strategies to provide transformative effects. Incompatible
人类天生就被故事所吸引,因为我们用叙事来理解一个复杂的世界,将信息排列成因果关系链,并对想法进行交流和回应。面对新的技术或战术,我们通常会被如何使用这些能力的叙事片段所吸引,以便将其效果可视化。然而,叙事并不仅仅是描述性的;它们隐含地促进了促进行为和判断的框架。经济学早就认识到,叙事塑造预期、激发想象力、引导投资决策的方式,往往是实证分析难以企及的。在国防领域,不加批判地接受叙事的塑造影响可能会产生问题后果。在国防政策的许多领域,如网络战、太空或新型武器系统,需要深入的主题专业知识来了解潜在的好处和局限性。试图评估具有非常不同文化和地缘政治观点的战略竞争对手的政策和行动也是如此。由于高级决策者制定政策,通才根据自己对专业从业人员和主题专家提供的简报的理解重写理论和战略文件,因此在翻译中几乎不可避免地丢失了关键的细微差别和实际限制。过度夸大新技术或战略带来变革影响的潜力的自然倾向加剧了这种趋势。不兼容的
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VII. More Sensors Than Sense 7更多的传感器
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2021.2005901
Jack Watling
The US Air Force likes to describe the future of command and control in warfare as analogous to Uber. Such a system promises a drastic improvement in efficiency and cooperation across the force. Suppose, for example, that an infantry platoon needed assistance in engaging enemy armour advancing on their position. They could make the request by reporting the target’s position, and this could be made available to all potential shooters in the area. These might comprise an artillery battery, an aircraft en route to a target and an aircraft returning from a strike. One could envisage the artillery battery declining the request because they were tasked with counterbattery duties and did not want to unmask their guns. The first aircraft might also decline because they were already tasked with an important strike mission and needed their munitions for that. The returning aircraft, finding that it had munitions left over from the strike, might accept, and the request would no longer be pushed to other units. Alternatively, if the second aircraft is removed from the equation, a higher commander might be envisaged, with access to the options, determining the trade-off between unmasking the guns, or abandoning the strike mission, based on their broader intent. Without such a system, the infantry platoon would have to call for artillery and air support on separate systems. Since the artillery and aircraft would not coordinate with each other, the infantry may receive no support, or support from both.
美国空军喜欢把未来的战争指挥和控制比作优步(Uber)。这样的系统保证了整个部队效率和合作的大幅提高。例如,假设一个步兵排需要帮助来对抗向其阵地推进的敌军装甲部队。他们可以通过报告目标的位置来提出要求,这可以提供给该地区所有潜在的射手。这些可能包括炮兵连、一架飞往目标的飞机和一架从打击中返回的飞机。人们可以想象炮兵连拒绝这个请求,因为他们的任务是反炮兵连,不想打开他们的枪。第一架飞机也可能会下降,因为它们已经承担了重要的打击任务,需要它们的弹药。返航的飞机发现有空袭遗留下来的弹药,可能会接受,这样就不会再把请求推给其他部队了。或者,如果第二架飞机被从等式中移除,可能会设想一个更高的指挥官,有权选择,根据他们更广泛的意图,决定是拆除火炮还是放弃打击任务。如果没有这样的系统,步兵排将不得不在单独的系统上要求炮兵和空中支援。由于炮兵和飞机不能相互配合,步兵可能得不到支援,或者两者都得到支援。
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III. Doing Less with Less in the Land Domain III、 在土地领域少花钱少办事
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2021.2005894
N. Reynolds
It is a long-established point of pride for smaller, lighter professional military forces that they can match larger, heavier forces. The US Marine Corps (USMC) has often considered itself as ‘doing more with less’ when compared to the US Army, equivalent to the UK defence cliché of ‘punching above our weight’. Since the end of the Cold War, successive events have pushed most Western militaries to become smaller. The idea of a peace dividend was followed by attempts to make defence more efficient, and despite a brief trend of modest expansion during the War on Terror, this has been followed by further contraction. The official rationale usually involves efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Recently, an additional element of the debate has been brought to the fore: whether older, heavier platforms are survivable in the face of the increasing range, precision and lethality of offensive weapons and technology. The UK’s Integrated Review in 2021 required government policy to directly address these questions, and the result for the most part favoured smaller and lighter land forces. It framed the shrinkage of the British Army as a positive step, stating that ‘the Army of the future will be leaner, more lethal, nimbler, and more effectively matched to current and future threats’ while proposing personnel cuts ‘from the current Full Time Trade Trained strength of 76,000 to 72,500 by 2025’. The necessity of rectifying prior funding discrepancies by difficult prioritisation decisions was
规模较小、重量较轻的专业军事力量能够与规模较大、重量较大的部队相匹配,这是他们长期以来的骄傲。与美国陆军相比,美国海军陆战队(USMC)经常认为自己“少花钱多办事”,这相当于英国国防部“重拳出击”的陈词滥调。自冷战结束以来,接二连三的事件促使大多数西方军队变得更小。和平红利的想法之后,人们试图提高国防效率,尽管反恐战争期间出现了短暂的适度扩张趋势,但随之而来的是进一步的收缩。官方的理由通常涉及效率和成本效益。最近,争论的另一个因素凸显出来:面对攻击性武器和技术不断增加的射程、精度和杀伤力,较旧、较重的平台是否能够生存。英国2021年的《综合审查》要求政府政策直接解决这些问题,结果在很大程度上支持更小、更轻的陆上部队。它将英国军队的缩减视为一个积极的步骤,指出“未来的军队将更精简、更致命、更灵活,并更有效地应对当前和未来的威胁”,同时提议“到2025年,从目前76000人的全职贸易训练兵力削减到72500人”。通过艰难的优先决策来纠正先前资金差异的必要性是
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VI. In Space, No One Will See You Fight VI、 在太空中,没有人会看到你战斗
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2021.2005900
A. Stickings
In 2019, the establishment of the US Space Force as an independent military service reignited various long-running debates on the nature of future conflict in space. While specialists in military space policy understood the formation of Space Force as a reorganisation of existing capabilities and missions, other narratives soon emerged in the broader security and defence sphere. Most centred on fears of direct kinetic conflict and increasing weaponisation of assets in orbit; high-powered space lasers which could target enemy satellites, military bases on the Moon, and the spectre of ‘space marines’ in the shape of armed service personnel routinely being deployed in orbit. Beyond providing a target for political commentators and late-night comedy show hosts, these narratives distract attention from the real and important issues raised by likely confrontation in the space domain during future conflicts. Specifically, it is necessary to counter the idea that kinetic warfare in space will be a central and early feature of future state-on-state wars. The idea of kinetic conflict in space is not new. It became apparent during the late 1950s that satellites could provide enabling capabilities for terrestrial military operations. Consequently, both the US and the Soviet
2019年,美国太空军作为一个独立的军事部门成立,重新引发了关于未来太空冲突性质的各种长期争论。虽然军事太空政策专家将太空军的组建理解为对现有能力和任务的重组,但其他说法很快在更广泛的安全和国防领域出现。大多数集中在对直接动力冲突和轨道上资产日益武器化的担忧上;高功率太空激光器,可以瞄准敌方卫星、月球上的军事基地,以及经常部署在轨道上的“太空海军陆战队”。除了为政治评论员和深夜喜剧节目主持人提供目标外,这些叙事还分散了人们对未来冲突中太空领域可能发生的对抗所引发的真实和重要问题的注意力。具体而言,有必要反对太空动能战将是未来国家对国家战争的核心和早期特征的观点。空间动力冲突的概念并不新鲜。在20世纪50年代末,卫星显然可以为地面军事行动提供支持能力。因此,美国和苏联
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V. The Lights May Go Out, But the Band Plays On 灯可能会熄灭,但乐队仍在演奏
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2021.2005899
P. Roberts
The likelihood of success in achieving national foreign policy goals against a competitor may be drawn from a set of characteristics determined by a view on the threat being posed. In military circles, this has historically been equated to the idea that a threat is equal to the military capability of a state plus their intent to carry out activities against you. This methodology was rapidly adopted by business seeking ‘competitive advantage’ and became lingua franca across the public, private, commercial and military domains before 2005. In military education, where future senior officers and their civil service counterparts are groomed for high office, such basic calculations have become key indicators of military prowess – applied as much as an assessment of one’s own ability to enact foreign policies as it has to other belligerents. In national security terms, and increasingly since 1945, this same calculation has gradually been refined by various states to one that places equal emphasis on military capability and will to fight. Indeed, given the history of Western states, the idea of a will to fight (the intent part of the calculation) has become fixed – first by the ideological position of the Soviet Union as a long-term adversary, later by the idea of terrorism as a singular amorphous entity, and most recently by various insurgent groups
成功实现针对竞争对手的国家外交政策目标的可能性可以从对所构成威胁的看法所确定的一系列特征中得出。在军事领域,这在历史上被等同于这样一种观点,即威胁等于一个国家的军事能力加上他们对你进行活动的意图。这种方法被寻求“竞争优势”的企业迅速采用,并在2005年之前成为公共、私人、商业和军事领域的通用语言。在军事教育中,未来的高级军官和他们的公务员同行被培养为高级官员,这些基本的计算已经成为军事实力的关键指标——既可以用来评估一个人制定外交政策的能力,也可以用来评估其他交战国的能力。从国家安全的角度来看,自1945年以来,各国逐渐将同样的考量调整为同样强调军事能力和战斗意愿的考量。的确,从西方国家的历史来看,战争意志的观念(意图部分)已经变得固定——首先是苏联作为长期对手的意识形态立场,后来是恐怖主义作为单一的无形实体的观念,最近是各种叛乱组织的观念
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IV. Swarming Munitions, UAVs and the Myth of Cheap Mass 蜂群弹药、无人机和廉价批量的神话
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2021.2005898
J. Bronk
Swarming munitions and cheap ‘attritable’ UAVs are two of the most common features of PowerPoint slides and forecasting documents dealing with the future battlefield. Alongside the ubiquitous lightning bolts representing seamless connectivity, these highly automated assets are pictured sweeping across future skies in large numbers, rolling back the fog of war, conducting stand-in jamming and striking key targets with pinpoint accuracy. It is small wonder that this vision is extremely attractive to many policymakers. In the UK, both the Chief of the Air Staff and Chief of the Defence Staff recently outlined a vision where such capabilities might provide up to 80% of the RAF’s combat air mass by the 2030s. Swarming munitions are designed to be used in large numbers simultaneously, and to coordinate their actions as a group to improve overall efficiency. Attritable, reusable UAVs are an emerging class of UAV designed for a limited operational lifespan, able to carry modular sensor
武器弹药和廉价的“可消耗”无人机是PowerPoint幻灯片和关于未来战场的预测文件中最常见的两个功能。除了代表无缝连接的无处不在的闪电外,这些高度自动化的资产还被描绘成大量横扫未来的天空,击退战争的迷雾,进行替身干扰,并精确打击关键目标。难怪这一愿景对许多政策制定者极具吸引力。在英国,空军参谋长和国防参谋长最近都提出了一个愿景,即到2030年代,这种能力可能会提供英国皇家空军80%的作战空气量。Swarming弹药的设计目的是同时大量使用,并作为一个群体协调其行动,以提高整体效率。可改装、可重复使用的无人机是一种新兴的无人机,设计使用寿命有限,能够携带模块化传感器
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Conclusion 结论
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2021.2005903
J. Bronk, Jack Watling
In March 2021, the UK published its most far-reaching reassessment of its foreign and defence policy since 1997. The Integrated Review articulated a vision of the UK as an independent global player, using widespread access to develop economic and political influence, embedded in a strong Western alliance, and at the leading edge of emerging technologies. It stated that Russia was a threat that must be deterred, and that China was a strategic competitor. Whether one agrees or disagrees with its prognosis, the Integrated Review provides a clear articulation of what UK foreign policy aspires to achieve. The subsequent Defence Command Paper (DCP) was supposed to set out how the Ministry of Defence (MoD) would structure the armed forces to meet the policy demands in the Integrated Review. It failed to do so coherently. This was partly because the forces which can be fielded within the budget available fall far short of what would be required to meet the policy ambition described. However, beyond a lack of fiscal realism, the DCP also demonstrated various conceptual failures which are likely to hamper the ability of Defence to deliver relevant policy options. One example from the DCP which illustrates some of the real-world consequences of the distortionary narratives highlighted in this Whitehall Paper is the establishment of the British Army’s new Ranger Regiment.
2021年3月,英国公布了自1997年以来对其外交和国防政策影响最深远的重新评估。《综合评论》阐述了英国作为一个独立的全球参与者的愿景,利用广泛的机会发展经济和政治影响力,嵌入强大的西方联盟,并处于新兴技术的领先地位。它指出,俄罗斯是一个必须威慑的威胁,而中国是一个战略竞争对手。无论人们是否同意其预测,《综合评论》都清楚地阐明了英国外交政策的目标。随后的国防指挥文件(DCP)本应规定国防部将如何组建武装部队,以满足综合审查中的政策要求。它未能连贯一致地做到这一点。这在一定程度上是因为在现有预算范围内可以部署的部队远远达不到实现所述政策目标所需的兵力。然而,除了缺乏财政现实主义之外,DCP还表现出各种概念上的失败,这些失败可能会阻碍国防部提供相关政策选择的能力。DCP的一个例子是英国陆军新游骑兵团的成立,它说明了白厅文件中强调的扭曲叙事在现实世界中的一些后果。
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I. The Slow and Imprecise Art of Cyber Warfare 一、网络战的慢而不精确的艺术
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2021.2005891
J. Bronk, Jack Watling
Sally Walker, former Director of Cyber at GCHQ, has stated that cyber attacks ‘can have impact in the real world and you can do it at scale’. Because cyber attacks can target everything from financial systems and critical national infrastructure to political leaders and legal institutions – undermining trust and the rule of law – they can have an ‘attritional’ effect on the cohesion of states to which open societies ‘are uniquely vulnerable’. Such warnings over the years, combined with high-profile incidents like the WannaCry ransomware attack against the NHS, have meant that military leaders have recognised the importance of the ‘cyber domain’. When new forms of conflict first emerge, however, there is almost always a period of inflated expectation. For the small community within Defence who have worked in the margins to explore the novel capability, there is a tendency to hype its effects and downplay its limitations in order to gain the attention of the wider defence and security community and secure resources within the bureaucracy. For that wider community – lacking an understanding of the capability – it is often much easier to visualise the potential threats posed by novel weapons than the challenges involved in employing them effectively. Cyber warfare today is arguably at the peak of this inflated discourse,
英国政府通信总部前网络总监萨莉·沃克表示,网络攻击“可以在现实世界中产生影响,而且可以大规模进行”。因为网络攻击可以针对从金融系统和关键国家基础设施到政治领导人和法律机构的一切——破坏信任和法治——它们可以对开放社会“特别脆弱”的国家的凝聚力产生“消耗性”影响。多年来的此类警告,再加上针对英国国家医疗服务体系的WannaCry勒索软件攻击等备受瞩目的事件,意味着军方领导人已经认识到“网络领域”的重要性。然而,当新形式的冲突首次出现时,几乎总是有一段时间的期望值过高。对于国防部内部一直在边缘探索这种新能力的小团体来说,有一种倾向是夸大其影响并淡化其局限性,以获得更广泛的国防和安全团体的关注,并确保官僚机构内的资源。对于更广泛的社区——缺乏对能力的了解——来说,想象新型武器构成的潜在威胁往往比有效使用这些武器所涉及的挑战要容易得多。今天的网络战可以说是处于这种膨胀言论的顶峰,
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Acronyms and Abbreviations 缩略语
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2020.1836756
de Menezes, Yinan Zhang, T. Henshaw, J. Vorman, Jane F. Kirby-Zaki, Christoph Pusch, Arati Belle, Haris Khan, Atishay Abbhi, Poonam Pillai Gpurl, Nazmus Khan, Manuela Francisco Mti, Adnan Ashraf Ghumman, Charl Jooste, G. Schwerhoff
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I. Why Do Patrons Embark Upon Capacity Building? I.为什么赞助人要着手进行能力建设?
Q4 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02681307.2020.1836759
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