Uruzgan is een goed voorbeeld van counter-insurgency (COIN), een operatie waarbij zowel vechten als opbouw aan de orde is; elementen die ook deel uitmaakten van de koloniale pacificatie. De ‘inktvlekmethode’ in Uruzgan grijpt terug op de tache d’huile-doctrine uit de Franse koloniale geschiedenis. Deze …

This paper discusses the principle of geoacoustic inversion. That will demonstrate the need for validation with experimental data. The RNLNC has been involved in two recent sea trials that will be described in brief. Results for the geoacoustic parameter characterization for typical examples will be …

The author investigates how acoustic information about the seabed can be obtained from bottom-reflected shipping noise. An innovative idea is the use of sound sources of opportunity. When expeditionary forces enter shallow or confined waters, the environment has a great influence on the performance of …

Vandaag de dag zijn zo’n 2000 Nederlandse militairen uitgezonden naar missiegebieden over de hele wereld. Gedurende een aantal maanden zijn ze van hun partner gescheiden. Dit artikel schetst de ervaringen van partners vóór, tijdens en na de uitzending. Wanneer de achterblijvers beschikken over een …

Dit is het eerste Nederlandse artikel waarin ouders van uitgezonden militairen centraal staan. Er is onderzoek gedaan naar ouders wier kind betrokken was bij een uitzending naar Bosnië-Herzegowina of Uruzgan. Ouders zijn zeer betrokken bij hun kinderen. Ze zijn ook bezorgd, zeker wanneer ze de uitzending …

Discussing the visibility and cultural factors that inf luence the position of women in the armed forces is the object of the study that is presented here. The Netherlands do not have a martial tradition and are believed to have a feminine ‘soft’ culture , but nevertheless women have always been underrepresented. Nowadays …

It is well-known that instead of changing course exactly at the edge, changing course when the sweep radius reaches the edge (i.e. changing course at distance R from the edge) generally yields higher probabilities of detection. In this article the authors shall investigate whether or not an even higher …

In the 1960s, Jacques van Doorn started teaching (military) sociology as a formal, scientific discipline at the Netherlands Military Academy. Since then, the way military sociology was taught at the academy has seen a great number of developments; the philosophy of education at the academy changed into …

This paper describes segmentation based on motion. A group of (connected) pixels that move together is assumed to belong to one object. One advantage of using otion is that an object that consists of different parts is detected as one object, whereas f for instance colour differences are used the same …

Information dominance and superiority and network centric warfare are terms that have become part of the lexicon associated with the transformation of the military force in the 21st century. Also well-known are the four tenets of network centric warfare: 1. Arobustly networked force improves information …