Military-Police Fusion at the Southern Border

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-121
Author(s):  
Chava Brownfield-Stein
Keyword(s):  
Women Soldiers ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Ground Vehicles ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Israel Defense Forces ◽  
New Phase

Examining the activities of the Israel Defense Forces along the Gaza-Israel border, this article identifies a new phase in what the author calls ‘military-police fusion’. The analysis focuses on novel technologies—remote-controlled weapon stations and unmanned ground vehicles—and on the women soldiers who operate these systems. The central claim is that the blurring of boundaries between military and policing missions, combined with high-tech weaponry, has resulted in the development and implementation of new modes of violence that are currently undergoing a process of redefinition and feminization. The article addresses three key dimensions of the processes occurring in the hybrid operational environment along the Gaza-Israel border: the legal dimension, the technological dimension, and the gender dimension.

scholarly journals Immunized Token-Based Approach for Autonomous Deployment of Multiple Mobile Robots in Burnt Area

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 4135
Author(s):  
Sulemana Nantogma ◽  
Weizhi Ran ◽  
Pengfei Liu ◽  
Zhang Yu ◽  
Yang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robots ◽  
Mobile Agents ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Ground Vehicles ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Burnt Area ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Local Observation ◽  
Collaborative Exploration

Collaborative exploration, sensing and communication in previously unknown environments with high network latency, such as outer space, battlefields and disaster hit areas are promising in multi-agent applications. When disasters such as large fires or natural disasters occur, previously established networks might be destroyed or incapacitated. In these cases, multiple autonomous mobile robots (AMR) or autonomous unmanned ground vehicles carrying wireless devices and/or thermal sensors can be deployed to create an end-to-end communication and sensing coverage to support rescue efforts or access the severity of damage. However, a fundamental problem is how to rapidly deploy these mobile agents in such complex and dynamic environments. The uncertainties introduced by the operational environment and wide range of scheduling problem have made solving them as a whole challenging. In this paper, we present an efficient decentralized approach for practical mobile agents deployment in unknown, burnt or disaster hit areas. Specifically, we propose an approach that combines methods from Artificial Immune System (AIS) with special token messages passing for a team of interconnected AMR to decide who, when and how to act during deployment process. A distributed scheme is adopted, where each AMR makes its movement decisions based on its local observation and a special token it receives from its neighbors. Empirical evidence of robustness and effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through simulation.

The Academic Reserve

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Baram ◽  
Isaac Ben-Israel
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Military Service ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Special Program ◽  
High Tech Industry ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Israel Defense Forces

Why is Israel world-renowned as the ‘start-up nation’ and a leading source of technological innovation? While existing scholarship focuses on the importance of skill development during Israel Defense Forces (IDF) service, we argue that the key role of the Academic Reserve has been overlooked. Established in the 1950s as part of David Ben-Gurion’s vision for a scientifically and technologically advanced defense force, the Academic Reserve is a special program in which the IDF sends selected high school graduates to earn academic degrees before they complete an extended term of military service. After finishing their service, most participants go on to contribute to Israel’s successful high-tech industry. By focusing on the role of the Academic Reserve, we provide a broader understanding of Israel’s ongoing technological success.

scholarly journals Doctrinal Approachs of the Land Operations at Tactical Level

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Mihai-Marcel Neag
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Manifestation Area ◽  
The Way

Abstract The character of armed conflict will be further granted by the use of conventional military forces, of professionalized but high-tech armies - as it has been enshrined in recent finished confrontations as well as in the ones currently underway- the manifestation area and the intensity of the threats have extremely diversified and expanded in the context of the operational environment. This meant the need for new approaches of the specific operational framework for the conduct of military operations, with consequences for the structure of the operation of groupings of forces and the way of conducting actions.

L2-Norm Optimal Trajectory Planning for Mobile Ground Vehicles in a Dynamically Changing Environment with both “Hard” and “Soft” Obstacles

2011 ◽  
Vol 130-134 ◽  
pp. 339-342
Author(s):  
Jian Yang ◽  
Mi Dong
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Trajectory Planning ◽  
Design Parameter ◽  
Optimal Trajectory ◽  
Kinematic Model ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Planning Problem ◽  
Ground Vehicles ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Optimal Trajectory Planning

In this paper, the real-time trajectory planning problem is considered for a differential vehicles in a dynamically changing operational environment. Some obstacles in the environment are not known apriori, they are either static or moving, and classified to two types: “hard” obstacles that must be avoided, and “soft” obstacles that can be run over/through. The proposed method presents trajectories, satisfying boundary conditions and vehicle’s kinematic model, in terms of polynomials with one design parameter. With a cost function ofL2norm, an optimal feasible trajectory is analytically solved for “hard” obstacles. By relaxing the optimal solution, “soft” obstacles are prioritized to be bypassed or overcome. The proposed method offers an automatic and systematic way of handling obstacles.The simulation is used to illustrate the proposed algorithm.

scholarly journals DENTIFICATION THE WAYS OF COUNTERACTION OF THE THREATS TO THE FINANCIAL SECURITY OF HIGH-TECH ENTERPRISES

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasil Franchuk ◽  
Oleg Omelchuk ◽  
Stepan Melnyk ◽  
Mykhailo Kelman ◽  
Oksana Mykytyuk
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Rapid Adaptation ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
High Tech Sector ◽  
Environment Identification ◽  
Hierarchical Ordering ◽  
The Moment

Identified key external and internal threats significantly affect the process of ensuring the financial security of the enterprise. The application of the mechanism of counteraction to the influence of external and internal threats is characterized by important. The mechanism for countering threats to the financial security of a high-tech enterprise, unlike existing ones, combines a certain essence and hierarchical ordering of the influence of key external and internal threats, involves targeted tracking of changes in the operational environment, identification of the moment of occurrence of threats, prediction of possible results of their implementation, regulating the choice of the established option actions (adaptive, active and protective), control over security, result from the application of which is the rapid adaptation to possible changes, to neutralize the negative impact of and response to threats of action in order to maintain the necessary level of financial security enterprise. The results of the study can be used in the practical activities of enterprises in the high-tech sector of the economy

Introduction: On the Limitations of Military Doctrine

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Ahmad Samih Khalidi
Keyword(s):  
Military Doctrine ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Strategy Analysis ◽  
Special Operations ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Chief Of Staff ◽  
Israel Defense Forces ◽  
And Control ◽  
Control Resource ◽  
First Time

This special document is an original English translation of a 2015, thirty-three page (in Hebrew), Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strategy paper, marking the first time that the IDF has published an official account of its fundamental driving principles. An introductory essay by Ahmad Samih Khalidi, “On the Limitations of Military Doctrine,” places the strategy document in the context of Israel's failures in the 2006 Lebanon war. The document, itself headed by a short letter from Israeli chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, encompasses a broad spectrum of grand strategy analysis, prediction, and recommendation, against a complex matrix of operational, tactical, and logistical measures. It comprises three main parts: first, a succinct “Strategy Document” that describes Israel's strategic and operational environment and that delineates the basic principles guiding its military actions (chapters 1–3); second, a description of the IDF's command structure and procedures (chapter 4); and third, the prescription of a series of follow-up steps (chapter 5). In brief bullet points, the strategy document covers national goals, threat perceptions, the domestic, regional, and international contexts, technical and technological challenges, the main functions and roles of the IDF, the different conditions (or “operating statuses”) for the use of force, the importance of cyberwarfare, intelligence, questions of legitimacy, issues of command and control, resource utilization, defense capabilities, special operations, and the priorities for five years. Israel's traditional concerns with the threat from Arab states are downgraded in favor of the threat posed by sub- or non- state actors (Hamas and Hezbollah), and “distant” players (Iran).

scholarly journals From the Border to the Core: A Thickening Military-Police Assemblage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer G. Correa ◽  
James M. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
The U.S

Militarization on the U.S.-Mexico border has intensified in America’s post- 9/11 War on Terror, while America’s War on Drugs has escalated militarization in America’s urban core. This infusion of military weapons and tactics along the border and within America’s urban core produces devastating effects on communities of color. Yet, to date, few critical race scholars attend to the Wars on Terror and on Drugs as two sides of the same coin. This paper serves as a bridge between U.S.-Mexico border studies and critical race studies vis-à-vis a theorization of a thickening military-police assemblage birthed by the War on Drugs, and intensified by the War on Terror. To delineate this assemblage, we respond to two key questions: how and to what degree has the U.S.-Mexico border served as a staging-ground for US (para)military and surveillance strategies at home and abroad? And how do discourses on America’s urban core compare and contrast with those on its southern border? We draw upon the cases of Esequiel Hernández, Jr. and Michael Brown, two teenagers whose lives were taken by this assemblage, to frame these questions. Our analysis reveals material, symbolic, and affective links between America’s militarization on the southwest border and within its urban core.

Modeling and Analysis of Flexible-Wheel Suspension Concept

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongpu Cao ◽  
Amir Khajepour ◽  
Xubin Song
Keyword(s):  
Lightweight Design ◽  
Fuel Efficiency ◽  
Driving Safety ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ground Vehicles ◽  
Modeling And Analysis ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Suspension Systems ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Stiffness And Damping

Flexible-wheel (FW) suspension concept has been recently proposed and regarded to be one of the novel technologies for future ground vehicles as well as planetary surface rovers. The FW concept generally integrates stiffness/damping components within an airless tire and wheel unit, to offer considerably potential benefits in decoupled ride and handling, compact and lightweight design, enhanced traction, road-holding, road-friendliness, driving safety and fuel efficiency. This study attempts efforts to develop generalized models for fundamental stiffness and damping properties of the FW suspension concept. Based on the generalized models, suspension properties are analyzed for two different FW design configurations. The generalized analytical formulations of the suspension properties of conceptual FW suspension designs would serve as a preliminary theoretical foundation for the development of FW suspension systems for future vehicle applications.

scholarly journals From the Border to the Core: A Thickening Military-Police Assemblage

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1133-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer G. Correa ◽  
James M. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
Us Mexico Border

Militarization on the US–Mexico border has intensified in America’s post-9/11 War on Terror, while America’s War on Drugs has escalated militarization in America’s urban core. This infusion of military weapons and tactics along the border and within America’s urban core produces devastating effects on communities of color. Yet, to date, few critical race scholars attend to the Wars on Terror and on Drugs as two sides of the same coin. This article serves as a bridge between US–Mexico border studies and critical race studies vis-à-vis a theorization of a thickening military-police assemblage birthed by the War on Drugs, and intensified by the War on Terror. To delineate this assemblage, we respond to two key questions: how and to what degree has the US–Mexico border served as a staging ground for US (para)military and surveillance strategies at home and abroad? and how do discourses on America’s urban core compare and contrast with those on its southern border? We draw upon the cases of Esequiel Hernández, Jr. and Michael Brown, two teenagers whose lives were taken by this assemblage, to frame these questions. Our analysis reveals material, symbolic, and affective links between America’s militarization on the southwest border and within its urban core.

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