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Systemic Operational Design – a study in failed concept

Przybyło Łukasz

Security and Defence Quarterly

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2023

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Vol. 42, No. 2

35--54

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One of the many reasons for the failure of the Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) in the Second Lebanon War was the concept of Systemic Operational Design (SOD), translated into de facto military doctrine. The story of the rise and fall of the SOD idea is a warning sign for all militaries faced with “modern” and “fashionable” ideas. The purpose of this paper is therefore to describe and evaluate the Systemic Operational Design created and introduced into the IDF by Brigadier General Shimon Naveh and the Operational Theory Research Institute (OTRI). The study is based on the literature created by the State of Israel, the IDF, and its main proponent Shimon Naveh, as well as other militaries (mainly the US Army). This theoretical background is confronted with the IDF’s operations during the Second Lebanon War of 2006 and their effects on the war’s outcome. The over intellectualised, ambiguous, and not properly structured concept of the SOD, introduced as the IDF’s doctrine and approach to operations, led to military failure (which also had more root causes) in Lebanon. A study of the SOD failure should lead to a careful approach being taken to all new military concepts and ideas. Both change and continuation need to be properly balanced and evaluated, while enhanced military effectiveness could be of great value. At the same time, the impact of concepts which are not well anchored in military science/history and untested, like the SOD, could be devastating for militaries.

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Criteria for identifying maximum rainfall determined by the peaks-over-threshold (POT) method under the Polish Atlas of Rainfall Intensities (PANDa) project

Burszta-Adamiak Ewa, Licznar Paweł, Zaleski Janusz

Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management. Research and Operational Applications

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2019

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Vol. 7, Iss. 1

3--13

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Determination of rainfall maxima from long-term series is one of the more important tasks in urban hydrology. These maxima are useful both in designing land drainage systems and for flood protection in a catchment. The identification of rainfall maxima for the hierarchy of rainfall durations from 5 min to 4 320 min is a fundamental stage of the creation of the first version of the Polish Atlas of Rainfall Intensities (PANDa), which will ultimately be a source of updated and reliable information on design rainfall intensities for designing and modeling rainwater drainage and retention systems in Poland. One of the methods for identifying extreme rainfall events is to use criteria for selecting rainfall based on their depth for a given rainfall frequency and duration. Existing national experience in this respect is based on the results of analyses usually conducted with regard to records from single weather stations. This article presents the results of a study designed to verify the usefulness of the literature-based criteria for identifying rainfall maxima using the peaks-over-threshold (POT) method at a much broader nationwide scale. The study analyzed data from a previously created digital database of rainfall series, which includes 3 000 stationyears (consisting of a 30-year measurement series from 100 weather stations of the Institute of Meteorology and the Water Management - National Research Institute (IMGW-PIB). The study results show that as far as the investigated measurement series are concerned, the criteria based on the literature sources have limited application and can only be used for identifying the largest short-duration rainfall events. To determine rainfall maxima for all of the time intervals analyzed (from 5 minutes to 3 days), it was necessary to develop our own criteria that would allow the methodology for identifying extreme rainfall events to be standardized for all 100 stations.

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Współpraca przemysłowego potencjału obronnego państw Grupy Wyszehradzkiej

Wójtowicz Bogdan, Nalepa Tomasz

Wiedza Obronna

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2013

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nr 3

3--17

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W artykule przedstawiono wybrane zagadnienia dotyczące współpracy przemysłowego potencjału obronnego państw Grupy Wyszehradzkiej. Omówiono Inicjatywę utworzenia Wyszehradzkiej Grupy Bojowej w 2016 roku. Przedstawiono wstępne możliwości zaspokojenia potrzeb Sił Zbrojnych Grupy V4 przez podmioty przemysłu obronnego.

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In this article authors introduced a chosen issues concerning the cooperation of industrial defence potential of States Wyszehrad Group. It is expected the creation of the Wyszehrad Combat Group in 2016. Moreover authors presented an initial possibility of the realization of needs of Armed Forces of V4 Group by units of defence industry.