People's war refers to a war in which the broad masses of people organize and arm themselves against class oppression or foreign aggression. Its two basic principles are: 1) The source of great power of war exists among the people. 2) The decisive factor in winning or losing a war is people, not things.
In the high-tech war, although the destructive power of some high-tech weapons has increased unprecedentedly, they cannot replace the actual combat and deterrent effect of nuclear weapons. On the contrary, it is usually under the condition of nuclear deterrence. What's more, some high-tech equipment is developed for local small-scale battles. This feature determines that it is usually a local war, while the people's war is a full-scale war in which all the people are soldiers. The high-tech war highlights the role of high-tech weapons and equipment in the war, which is second only to the people's war.
In the future, high-tech wars will be launched in the multidimensional space of land, sea, air, sky and electricity. Information warfare, electronic warfare, firepower warfare and psychological warfare are intertwined, and the form and mode of war have undergone profound changes. This high-tech nature of the future war challenges the traditional content, form and way of participating in the war, and requires us to firmly grasp the requirements of the times, innovate the connotation of the people's war on the basis of inheriting and carrying forward the fine tradition of the people's war, and take the operational needs of the high-tech war as the traction to keep pace with the times. We should focus on the characteristics of the future information war, make full use of the rich local scientific and technological potential, change the previous mode of "manpower", "physical strength" and "singleness", realize "science and technology", "intelligence" and "integration", shift the emphasis on manpower mobilization to the overall mobilization of people and property, especially science and technology, and shift from focusing on ensuring a single army service to ensuring the whole army.
Strengthen the research on the methods of winning the people's war
To persist in the people's war under high-tech conditions, we must strengthen the research on the strategy and technology of the people's war and seek new ways to defeat the enemy according to the new situation. It is necessary to comprehensively use various forces and adopt various means such as strike and deterrence, strike and attack, formal and informal, etc. to attack the enemy flexibly and flexibly. While strengthening the construction of regular troops, we should vigorously strengthen the construction of militia and reserve forces, strengthen the education and mobilization of the masses, and give full play to the role of the militia, reserve personnel and the masses in the war. For example, give full play to the advantages of China's folk information technology, information talents and information facilities, and assist and cooperate with the troops in implementing electronic warfare, network warfare and psychological warfare; Give full play to the creative spirit of the broad masses of the people, use various means to combine local culture with foreign culture, extensively carry out battlefield camouflage, hide people's eyes and ears, deceive and confuse the enemy; Give full play to the advantages of coastal militia reserve personnel who are familiar with geography, humanities, oceans and boundless feelings, extensively carry out maritime reconnaissance, mine clearance and guerrilla harassment, and actively support and cooperate with the main forces in combat operations; Actively organize militia, reserve forces and the people, carry out urban air defense and rear defense operations, and ensure the safety of important cities, important targets and important directions, and so on. As long as we really come up with a set of tactics adapted to combat under high-tech conditions, we can fight a battle with comprehensive national strength as the backing, active troops as the backbone, reserve troops and the masses as the basis, and sink into the sea of Wang Yang where the enemy is in the people's war in a new form.
Modern war needs people's war more. I think people can play a role in the following aspects:
1. People can play a role in information warfare.
1. You can organize non-governmental computer experts to concentrate on cyber warfare against the enemy, especially to control, use and destroy the enemy's public websites and some social networking systems, such as telecommunications, finance and electricity, so as to create chaos in the enemy's territory, disintegrate his national will and set off a wave of anti-war in his own country. In the past, it was difficult for a weak country to pose a threat to a strong country. In the information society, it is different. Weak countries can still lead wars to powerful countries, that is, through cyber warfare. If possible, computer experts should also be organized to directly control and destroy the enemy's satellite communication and military network, directly weakening its overall military strength.
2, can organize the masses to put on a show, interference and influence the enemy's reconnaissance and surveillance system. Organize the people to create a large number of false targets, launch false signals, release false information, and carry out false assembly and false movements. By creating a lot of information rubbish, they can consume a lot of enemy's high-tech ammunition and delay the enemy's decision. Without information, it will increase the risk of command and decision, and if there is too much false information in the obtained information, it will also increase the risk of command and decision. The tragedies of American attacks on civilian convoys in the wars in Afghanistan and Kosovo show that American reconnaissance and surveillance systems can only know that there are targets, but can't really distinguish between true and false targets. Mass activities such as fake anti-aircraft guns, fake missile positions and fake military camps can be carried out nationwide. The enemy's reconnaissance and surveillance system will be blinded.
Second, people can play a role in battlefield rescue and eliminate the consequences of attack and defense.
1, the enemy dare not invade our country from land, and can only take non-contact operations to attack us. Our people can play the role of battlefield rescue, eliminate the consequences of attacks and save regular combat troops.
2. Our people can act as the eyes and ears of anti-espionage and get rid of enemy spies in time.
Three, the people can play a role in the field of joint logistics support.
1. Military materials can be transported by civil sea, sea and land. Can achieve the purpose of concealment and safety.
Since we are fighting at home, we can use private companies, shops, hospitals and other service industries to provide logistical support for the army.
Fourth, the people are still the source of reserve forces.
Under the new historical conditions, no matter how weapons and equipment develop and how war forms change, people's war is our magic weapon to defeat the enemy. First of all, high technology has not changed the winning rule of a just war. Marxism holds that war is a continuation of politics, and politics determines the nature and future of war. It is an irrefutable truth that a just war will win. Although high technology can change the technical form of war, it cannot change the political nature of war and erase the difference between just war and unjust war. Justice is the fundamental feature of the people's war. Compared with traditional wars, high-tech wars are more political, and wars are more restricted by political factors. Secondly, high technology has not changed the decisive role of the people in the war. War practice has repeatedly proved that weapons are an important factor in winning wars, but they are not decisive factors. The decisive factor is people, not things. Under high-tech conditions, the combat effectiveness of weapons and equipment has been greatly improved, which has an increasingly important impact on the progress and outcome of the war. However, the high-tech war does not and cannot change the basic principle of the relationship between man and weapons, nor can it change the dominant position and decisive role of man in the war. In the high-tech war, no matter how intelligent, automatic and informational weapons and equipment are, it is impossible to replace people's consciousness, courage, wisdom and talent, nor can it replace people's subjective initiative. Especially the fierceness and cruelty of high-tech war put forward higher requirements for people's intelligence, physique, will and psychological quality. Therefore, the role of human beings in high-tech wars has not been weakened, but has become more important. Third, high technology has opened up new development space for the people's war. The operation of high-tech war covers land, sea, air, sky, electricity and other fields, and has full depth and all-round multidimensional characteristics. The direct combat space of the war has shrunk, the related space has expanded, and the boundary between the front and the rear has become blurred. This requires us to prepare and carry out the war in a broader space and scope, and to organize and carry out the front and rear operations in a unified way. We should build the people's war on the basis of strong economic strength, developed scientific and technological strength, strong national defense strength and strong national cohesion, and comprehensively enhance our ability to win the people's war. In addition, adhering to the people's war is our inevitable strategic choice. Our national conditions, military situation and military struggle tasks all determine that we must adhere to the people's war. This is an important guarantee for us to win the future defense war.