禮拜天美術神遊 (66):Bauhaus 百年群英 (3): 簡介 Marcel Breuer (1902~1981)
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禮拜天美術神遊 (66):Bauhaus 百年群英 (3): 簡介 Marcel Breuer (1902~1981)
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自由廣場》網路反擊 美軍援台關鍵
◎ 徐錚
台海戰雲再度成為世界關注焦點,有個課題值得各方更加重視,即中國如果採取一種四度空間的奇襲來進攻台灣,美台應如何因應?這種攻擊可包含三個面向:無預警的立體攻擊、裡應外合的非常規攻擊、以網路發動的電子攻擊(cyberattack)。
中國攻台將遵循兩項原則,一是避免捲入美軍,二是速戰速決。前者用意在避免升級成為全面戰爭的可能,後者則可以把自己和台灣的損失降到最低,也可避免美軍干預。
要速戰速決自然是奇襲。首先,第一波攻擊軍會常規化地配置在各前進基地,並進行常規化的攻台演訓,這樣可以掩蓋預示動手的不尋常跡象。攻擊軍自然是陸海空軍飛彈立體結合,登陸空降和滲透立體結合,進行多點全面同時的攻擊。
其次要裡應外合。中國可能已在台灣建立了第五縱隊,然後在攻擊發起前,海空滲透進特種部隊,結合這些內應展開對軍政領導人的斬首行動、破壞電網雷達飛彈基地、佔領一個以上機埸,甚至保全關鍵工業設備如台積電等,以迎接攻擊軍登陸。
第三,以網路擾亂台灣的指管通情系統,以及電力通訊交通和基礎設施,癱瘓網路和大量電腦,製造社會混亂和恐慌,再由第五縱隊和協力者帶動輿論,要求台灣停火投降。
這樣的四度空間攻擊,是可能達成速戰速決的,但防守方可以用兩點作為來回應:第一是事前對症下藥的預防,第二是美國的即時反應。特別是在反制網路攻擊,預防的重中之重就是內部的團結和自衛的決心,並強化電子資訊戰的能力。
反擊,則需要超出傳統軍事行動的範圍。因為要美國即時以武力反擊,在中國沒有攻擊美軍的前提下,有其現實上的複雜性。但若以網路反擊,則可行性就大大提高了!美國絕對有能力立即對中國的基礎設施如電力交通通訊和網路等進行反制攻擊,初期還可以偽裝成台灣所發動,爭取台灣抵抗的時間,以利美國完成軍事介入的態勢、部署。
這樣的推演是在表明,美台可以有效降低中國速戰速決的勝算,讓中國三思,並強化美國介入的可行性,增強美國防衛台灣的信心和決心。
這個論述最大的破口,就是台灣內部的團結,王城不為外敵破,唯除內自壞;倘若禍起蕭牆,則神仙也救不了!
(作者為美國Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute終身榮譽教授)
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And finally to Greece. Where walking into the Temple of Athena changed Phil Knight.
“I don’t know how long I stood there, absorbing the energy and power of that epochal place. An hour? Three? I don’t know how long after that day I discovered the Aristophanes play, set in the Temple of Nike, in which the warrior gives the king a gift – a pair of new shoes. I don’t know when I figured out that the play was called Knights. I do know that as I turned to leave I noticed the temple’s marble façade. Greek artisans had decorated it with several haunting carvings, including the most famous, in which the goddess inexplicably leans down… to adjust the strap of her shoe.” – Phil Knight, Shoe Dog.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knights
The Knights | |
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Written by | Aristophanes |
Chorus | knights |
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Setting | Outside Demos' house near the Pnyx in Athens |
The Knights (Ancient Greek: Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs; Attic: Ἱππῆς) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, who is considered the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy. The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatist's early plays. It is unique however in the relatively small number of its characters and this was due to its vitriolic preoccupation with one man, the pro-war populist Cleon. Cleon had prosecuted Aristophanes for slandering the polis with an earlier play, The Babylonians (426 BC), for which the young dramatist had promised revenge in The Acharnians (425 BC), and it was in The Knights (424 BC) that his revenge was exacted. The Knights won first prize at the Lenaia festival when it was produced in 424 BC.
The Knights is a satire on political and social life in 5th-century BC Athens, the characters are drawn from real life and Cleon is clearly intended to be the villain. However it is also an allegory, the characters are figures of fantasy and the villain in this context is Paphlagonian, a comic monstrosity responsible for almost everything that's wrong with the world. The identity Cleon=Paphlagonian is awkward and the ambiguities aren't easily resolved. This summary features the real-world names Cleon, Nicias and Demosthenes (though these names are never mentioned in the play). See Discussion for an overview of the ambiguous use of characterization in The Knights....
The Man Who Planted Trees
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種樹的男人 金恆鑣譯,台北:時報,2009
不朽/難忘的電影 (8):種樹的男人 (金恆鑣譯,2009); The Man Who Planted Trees ( Jean Giono 影片1987) 。漢清講堂141 金恆鑣博士:環境生態與文學
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種樹的男人,又譯作植樹的牧羊人(法語:L'homme qui plantait des arbres)為法國作家讓·紀沃諾(Jean Giono)於1953年出版的短篇故事,原是應讀者文摘邀請而寫的。
第一次世界大戰期間,一個陸軍步兵偶然經過 普洛旺斯高原,遇見了一個中年牧羊人艾爾則阿·布非耶。牧羊人常揀來許多橡實,再選擇合適地點一顆顆種下。幾十年後,牧羊人八十七歲了,他的橡樹成了大森林,受巡邏員保護,因此而充滿生機。
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Born | 30 March 1895 Manosque, France |
Died | 8 October 1970 (aged 75) Manosque, France |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | French |
Literary movement | Popular culture |
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Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
Outside France, Giono's best-known work is probably the short story The Man who Planted Trees (and 1987 film version). This optimistic tale of a man who brings a deserted valley back to life by planting trees reflects Giono's long-standing love of the natural world, an attitude that made him a precursor to the modern ecological movement. He thus declined to receive any royalties from this text, and granted free use to anyone who wanted to distribute or translate it.[10]
When Dag Hammarskjöld’s body was recovered from the crash site in Ndola, Zambia, where the Albertina, his chartered DC-6, went down on the night of September 18, 1961, he was lying on his back, propped up against an ant hill, immaculately dressed as always, in neatly pressed trousers and a white shirt with cuff links. His left hand was clutching some leaves and twigs, leaving rescuers to think he might have survived for a time after being thrown clear of the wreckage.
Searchers also retrieved his briefcase. Inside were a copy of the New Testament, a German edition of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, a novel by the French writer Jean Giono, and copies of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber’s I and Thou in German and English. Folded into his wallet were some copies of American newspaper cartoons mocking him, together with a scrap of paper with the first verses of “Be-Bop-a-Lula” by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps.