AN AIRBORNE CAPABILITY FOR SOUTH AFRICA FROM A SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES PERSPECTIVE

Special Operations Forces (SOF) have received significant emphasis over the last decade, as armed forces require highly trained and rapid deployable forces to deal with asymmetric threats.The South African (SA) Army identified the need for an SOF capability in its long-term strategy, and airborne forces form an important component in its envisioned

Study region: The South-to-North Water Diversion Eastern Route Project section from the Nansihu-Dongpinghu pumping station cluster.Study focus: An integrated framework for prediction and sensitivity analysis of water levels in front of pumping stations is proposed to obtain more accurate predictive surrogate models and to simplify surrogate model i