Could Military Commanders’ Good LeadershipInfluence Subordinates’ Smartphone Overdependence? A Serial Mediation Analysis

Owing to the ubiquitous use of smartphones by soldiers, military researchers have an increasing interest in potentially problematicside effects such as smartphone overdependence. This raises a question regarding the psychological mechanisms underlying thepotentially self-damaging use of smartphones. Here, we address this question by analyzing how heterogeneity in commander’sgood leadership explains subordinate soldiers’ differences in self-control and smartphone use. Specifically, we found thatsubordinate soldiers who thought their commander's leadership was good were self-regulated, less dependent on smartphones,less stressed, and finally had good mental health. This result indicates that commander’s good leadership can be used toestimate whether subordinate soldiers exert control over their impulses and use their smartphones properly. Thus, the currentfindings help to identify external factors that lead to a better understanding of problematic smartphone use and can potentiallyhelp to design appropriate preventive mechanisms or interventions that target commander’s good leadership.

Tactics of Persuasion in Cicero’s Letters during the War of Mutina with the Military Commanders

Cicero tried to take advantage of the War of Mutina in spring 44 BC,to vilify Mark Antony who,in his view,was the mortal foe to the res publica libera.In order to achieve his aim,Cicero used his letter-exchange with the military commanders in North and West Italy as well as in Africa to exert his infl uence and assure their alliance against Antony.Cicero employed various tactics in his letters to persuade and integrate those commanders into his framework.Those tactics functioned for some time during the war but failed eventually.Due to the formidable alliance of the Caesarian party and the still scattered powers of the Republicans,Cicero’s maneuver to remove Antony only by means of political advocacy failed.

An Application of Fuzzy Decision Theory in Combat Decision Simulation

In this paper a model of military command process under the combat situation is presented. The model is based on the Lanchester Equations and Fuzzy Decision Theory. The decision of a military commander is usually a process from precise to fuzzy and then from fuzzy to precise,and the model fitted this process well. The model was used in a Warfare Simulation System whose object is to evaluate the effectiveness of the military C3I systems.

Evolutionary decision-makings for the dynamic weapon-target assignment problem

The dynamic weapon-target assignment （DWTA） problem is an important issue in the field of military command and control. An asset-based DWTA optimization model was proposed with four kinds of constraints considered, including capability constraints, strategy constraints, resource constraints and engagement feasibility constraints. A general ＂virtual＂ representation of decisions was presented to facilitate the generation of feasible decisions. The representation is in essence the permutation of all assignment pairs. A construction procedure converts the permutations into real feasible decisions. In order to solve this problem, three evolutionary decision-making algorithms, including a genetic algorithm and two memetic algorithms, were developed. Experimental results show that the memetic algorithm based on greedy local search can generate obviously better DWTA decisions, especially for large-scale problems, than the genetic algorithm and the memetic algorithm based on steepest local search.