The format is also completed.
Strengthen the concept of national defense in peacetime; On the Role of Information Warfare in Modern Warfare
In the 2 1 century, the rapid development and wide application of high technology have promoted the development of weapons and equipment and the evolution of combat methods, promoted the innovation of military theory and the reform of organizational system, thus triggering a new military revolution. Information warfare will eventually replace mechanized warfare and become the basic form of future warfare. Information-based war refers to a war that takes place in the information age, is based on information, and uses information-based weapons and equipment as war tools. Play a major role in the current war.
Keywords: the position and function of information warfare
Text: Information warfare is a form of war, which refers to a multi-service integrated war in all-dimensional space such as land, sea, air, sky and electricity under the condition of nuclear deterrence in the information age. A large number of conventional weapons and equipment with modern high-tech level, such as information technology, new material technology, new energy technology, biotechnology, aerospace technology and marine technology, are used, and some areas adopt corresponding combat methods.
Firepower, maneuver and information are important contents of modern military combat capability, and information capability has become the main symbol to measure combat capability. Information ability is manifested in information acquisition, processing, transmission, utilization and confrontation, etc., and is embodied through the competition and control of information superiority. The essence of information superiority is not to let the enemy know his own situation while knowing the enemy. This is a dynamic confrontation process. It becomes the premise of competing for the control of air, sea and land, which directly affects the process and outcome of the whole war. Of course, mankind will always be the master of information warfare. The planning, organization and command of war have developed from completely human-centered to man-machine integration that relies more and more on technical means, which requires higher quality of soldiers. From the competition of information superiority to the decision-making superiority, it is more the competition of knowledge and wisdom. Information warfare plays an important role in the current war;
Information war is an information and intelligent war.
Combat power is the general name of all kinds of forces that can be directly and indirectly used in war. Fighting an information-based war is naturally inseparable from information-based, intelligent weapons and equipment and an information-based army. The most basic and remarkable feature of war is to make the most advanced war tools with the most advanced scientific and technological achievements at that time. Information weapons and equipment are developed on the basis of mechanized equipment, such as C4ISR system, precision guided weapons, information warfare equipment and various high-tech combat platforms. They are all highly knowledge-intensive war tools, so they have incomparable performance, function, combat capability and effect compared with traditional war tools. At the same time, the level and degree of its combat effectiveness are directly restricted by information, information systems and information capabilities. The information-based army refers to the army armed with information-based weapons and equipment in the information age. Its degree of integration will be unprecedented, and its overall combat capability will be stronger, emphasizing the optimal combination of combat capabilities, and all services are only part of the joint combat force. At the same time, the size of the troops will tend to be smaller, the formation form will be more flexible and diverse, and the command system will also change from a vertical tree structure to a flat network structure. That is to say, the hierarchical command relationship between the superior and the subordinate is transformed into the horizontal communication and integrated command relationship between the superior and the subordinate, so as to reduce the hierarchy, bring as many combat units as possible into the same information hierarchy, realize information sharing and shorten the information flow to meet the requirements of real-time command and decision-making.
Second, the mode of information warfare will tend to be systematic and precise.
The development of technology determines the evolution of tactics. With the development of weapons and equipment, the scale of war is also expanding day by day, which is manifested in the expansion of the battlefield from plane to three-dimensional space: from land to sea to air and space, from tangible space to intangible electromagnetic and information space, forming a new combat environment with four dimensions of land, sea and air, and the blending of tangible and intangible space. This networked battlefield is deep and three-dimensional, the difference between the front and the back is diluted, and the concept of time and space has undergone major changes, including traditional air combat, naval warfare, land warfare, electronic warfare, and even a brand-new information warfare with cyber attacks as the main focus. Relying on the support of information network, through the orderly flow of information, all operations in the combat space are truly integrated.
In the past, a new weapon often had a greater impact and achieved better operational results. However, in the modern battlefield, the opposing sides are no longer the confrontation between a single or several arms, let alone between a single weapon system, but between systems. In the information war, this kind of system confrontation is even worse. Instead of emphasizing the combat performance of single-piece combat platforms such as tanks, planes and warships, we highlight the overall effectiveness of the information-based weapons and equipment system and emphasize the comprehensive combat effectiveness of multiple services and weapons and equipment.
Third, the process of information warfare will be short-lived and controllable.
The pace of information warfare is obviously accelerated, the war process will be shorter and shorter, but the intensity will be higher and higher, and the overall control ability of human beings will also be significantly enhanced. The army in the information age pays more attention to quality and efficiency. The change from quantity to quality is one of the remarkable changes in the war. For example, the combination of precision-guided weapons and high-tech combat platforms enhances the ability to attack from outside the enemy's defense zone and can greatly reduce their own combat losses; The continuous improvement of attack accuracy can greatly reduce the number of weapons consumed. In World War II, it took 9000 ordinary bombs to blow up a target. Now, as long as 1-2 missiles or guided bombs can solve the problem, the pace and process of combat will naturally become faster and faster.
Advance layer by layer, fight continuously, and accumulate small victories for great victories. This kind of contact and line operation is a typical intuitive reflection of traditional combat methods. In the information war, non-contact and non-linear operations will become the main form, and combat operations will be carried out simultaneously in all combat spaces and the whole depth of the battlefield, and the primary goal will be to point directly at the enemy's center of gravity. In particular, information warfare is so powerful that even without the enemy's knowledge, a few hackers may paralyze the enemy's economy and society in an instant, thus achieving the goal of war quickly.
Fourthly, information weapons have become the dominant weapons in the battlefield of information warfare.
To see the basic characteristics of a war form, we must first look at the level of weapons and equipment that dominate the battlefield. Mechanized weapons such as tanks, planes and cannons can represent the main operational technical level and scientific and technological content of mechanized warfare, so they will inevitably become the leading weapons in the battlefield of mechanized warfare. As a new form of war, information warfare is bound to be an information weapon that reflects its operational technical level and scientific and technological content.
Information can be the main way to release energy in the battlefield of information war.
As an advanced development stage of mechanized warfare, information warfare is not only mechanical energy, but also information energy that deeply reflects human intelligence activities, that is, the capabilities of battlefield detection and early warning, intelligence reconnaissance, precision guidance, fire attack, operational command and control, communication and so on of various informationized weapons and equipment. This is a new way of battlefield energy release. It embodies the important functions of reconnaissance, early warning, decision-making, command, control, communication, strike, protection, support and guarantee on the information battlefield, and dominates and dominates all combat activities on the information battlefield, which has a great role in winning the war.
The six "three systems" have become the main operational targets of information warfare.
As a new form of war, information warfare has changed the operational mode of mechanized warfare, such as land, sea and air unit battlefield, single service and single operational field. It is based on the information battlefield and consists of five subsystems: battlefield perception system, information system, command and control system, battlefield strike system (including troops and firepower) and support system.
In the whole system-to-system contest, battlefield perception system, battlefield information system and command and control system are the eyes, ears, nerves and brains that constitute the information battlefield, leading and dominating all forces and strike actions on the battlefield. Both sides of the battle closely focus on destroying and paralyzing the enemy's "three major systems" and effectively protecting and shielding their own "three major systems."
Information warfare has become the main form of information warfare.
As a new form of warfare, information warfare has a brand-new ideological connotation. Compared with the previous forms of war, there are three main differences: first, information warfare is an antagonistic activity between hostile parties in the information field, and its confrontation mainly has two joints: one is decision-making confrontation. That is, both sides of the war are trying their best to contain each other's decision makers and command organs; The other is direct confrontation. That is, the two sides of the war strike through various information, making it difficult for the enemy to implement the decisions that have been made, to conduct real-time effective and correct command, and to form realistic combat effectiveness on the battlefield. Second, in terms of operational objectives, information warfare is not based on annihilating the enemy's active combat forces and heavily armed groups, nor is it a simple technical contest of information acquisition, processing and utilization, but aims at destroying and destroying the "three major systems", namely, battlefield awareness system, information system and command and control system. Third, in terms of operational purposes, information warfare abandons the operational purposes of various forms of warfare in mechanized warfare in order to compete for the quantitative advantage of battlefield forces and weapons, while the purpose of information warfare is to seize the battlefield information advantage.
In the Gulf War, the form of positional warfare adopted by the Iraqi army competed with new forms of war such as information warfare and joint operations of multinational forces, and all ended in fiasco. This fact further illustrates the important role of information warfare in information warfare.
References:
Research on the application of foreign military data link under the condition of informatization, Wang Liqiang National Defense Industry Press.
Defense and protection in information warfare, Silaiyi People's Liberation Army Press.
Xiaoye Kunlun Publishing House, 100,000 Why High-tech-Modern Weapons