AT the March 4 press conference during the Fourth Session of the 11th National People’s Congress(NPC), spokesman Li Zhaoxing said that China will raise its defense budget by about 12.7 percent to 601.1 billion yuan($...AT the March 4 press conference during the Fourth Session of the 11th National People’s Congress(NPC), spokesman Li Zhaoxing said that China will raise its defense budget by about 12.7 percent to 601.1 billion yuan($91.5 billion),accounting for 6 percent of this year’s budgetary fiscal expenditure. The percentage is slightly down compared to that of previous years. But the two-digit growth has again sparked heated debate among foreign media.Some of them question the展开更多
The military spending in Africa is not only high but it is persistent,unconstrained,and even defies the COVID-19 fiscal challenges.With militaries including intelligence been projected as the“guarantors”of national ...The military spending in Africa is not only high but it is persistent,unconstrained,and even defies the COVID-19 fiscal challenges.With militaries including intelligence been projected as the“guarantors”of national security,this phenomenon has been perpetuated by the assumption that more military spending will improve security conditions.This article revisits this assumption by showing the traditional state-centric military security threats that justify such high spending are increasingly been overtaken by the growing non-military security threats that have become the major national security concerns.Based on the available data on security,safety,and military spending in Africa,it is shown in this article the presence of inverse relationship between high military spending and security.The main driver of such spending is the backroom resource-driven defense policies that are grounded on the military-centric definition of strategy,which advocates military solutions and more resources to military as panacea for securing survival of state and safety of its citizens.Such military solutions might be detrimental to state and human security.The urgent war to be fought today in Africa is not about existential threat of state and its territorial integrity but it is a war against a web of complex threats to the lives and livelihoods of African citizens.One possible way of constraining the high military spending in Africa is to formulate new defense policies that are inclusive,transparent,people-centered,and guided by inclusive people-centered national security strategies and core budgetary principles.展开更多
本文以美国国防部高级研究计划局(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,DARPA)发布的2019—2023财年研究、开发、试验与鉴定预算申请文件为依据,对近5年DARPA的经费预算总体情况和各科研活动阶段投向趋势进行了数据统计和可视化...本文以美国国防部高级研究计划局(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,DARPA)发布的2019—2023财年研究、开发、试验与鉴定预算申请文件为依据,对近5年DARPA的经费预算总体情况和各科研活动阶段投向趋势进行了数据统计和可视化呈现,并进一步探究了项目变化情况,以及DARPA国防科研活动的特点。研究认为,DARPA近5年以来的国防科研经费预算资金重点投向了微电子、高超声速和人工智能等新兴领域,希望凭借这些领域的技术突破,实现美军现代化高端军事能力建设的目标。除了注重颠覆性技术研发以外,DARPA国防科研活动的另一个特点在于,注重新兴技术领域知识链、创新链和产业链的无缝集成,加强与工业界与军兵种的结合,实现研究成果向军兵种快速过渡,以期大力提升美军的未来作战能力。展开更多
文摘AT the March 4 press conference during the Fourth Session of the 11th National People’s Congress(NPC), spokesman Li Zhaoxing said that China will raise its defense budget by about 12.7 percent to 601.1 billion yuan($91.5 billion),accounting for 6 percent of this year’s budgetary fiscal expenditure. The percentage is slightly down compared to that of previous years. But the two-digit growth has again sparked heated debate among foreign media.Some of them question the
文摘The military spending in Africa is not only high but it is persistent,unconstrained,and even defies the COVID-19 fiscal challenges.With militaries including intelligence been projected as the“guarantors”of national security,this phenomenon has been perpetuated by the assumption that more military spending will improve security conditions.This article revisits this assumption by showing the traditional state-centric military security threats that justify such high spending are increasingly been overtaken by the growing non-military security threats that have become the major national security concerns.Based on the available data on security,safety,and military spending in Africa,it is shown in this article the presence of inverse relationship between high military spending and security.The main driver of such spending is the backroom resource-driven defense policies that are grounded on the military-centric definition of strategy,which advocates military solutions and more resources to military as panacea for securing survival of state and safety of its citizens.Such military solutions might be detrimental to state and human security.The urgent war to be fought today in Africa is not about existential threat of state and its territorial integrity but it is a war against a web of complex threats to the lives and livelihoods of African citizens.One possible way of constraining the high military spending in Africa is to formulate new defense policies that are inclusive,transparent,people-centered,and guided by inclusive people-centered national security strategies and core budgetary principles.
文摘本文以美国国防部高级研究计划局(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,DARPA)发布的2019—2023财年研究、开发、试验与鉴定预算申请文件为依据,对近5年DARPA的经费预算总体情况和各科研活动阶段投向趋势进行了数据统计和可视化呈现,并进一步探究了项目变化情况,以及DARPA国防科研活动的特点。研究认为,DARPA近5年以来的国防科研经费预算资金重点投向了微电子、高超声速和人工智能等新兴领域,希望凭借这些领域的技术突破,实现美军现代化高端军事能力建设的目标。除了注重颠覆性技术研发以外,DARPA国防科研活动的另一个特点在于,注重新兴技术领域知识链、创新链和产业链的无缝集成,加强与工业界与军兵种的结合,实现研究成果向军兵种快速过渡,以期大力提升美军的未来作战能力。
