Adhering to the people's war conforms to the actual situation in China, which is the real advantage and strength of China. The military strategy of active defense in the new period is based on the people's war. Adhere to the people's war is to safeguard world peace and national interests, because it can win the support of most people at home and abroad; China has a vast territory and a large population. It has a powerful armed force composed of the People's Liberation Army, the Armed Police Force and the broad masses of militia, and has a profound potential for people's war and a social foundation for continuous fighting. The people of China, who have rich traditions and experience in the people's war, can totally rely on the people's war to win the great victory in the future anti-aggression war.
The rapid development of modern high technology and profound changes in the world military field have brought many new situations and problems to the people's war. Compared with the past, the present people's war has different objects, different equipment, different means, different conditions and different forms of expression. Local wars under high-tech conditions in the future pose a severe challenge to the people's war. To sum up, there are mainly the following aspects:
First, in the form of war, war is mainly manifested as local war under high-tech conditions. In the past, the form of the whole country participating in the war against the enemy and the whole people faced challenges. Adhere to the strategic thinking of people's war in high-tech local wars, because the face of war has undergone profound and tremendous changes, and strategic guidance, war mobilization, and combat forms and methods will also undergo major changes. Correctly handling the relationship between overall mobilization and local mobilization, human support and technical support, and direct and indirect participation in war has become an important content to guide the people's war under high-tech conditions. War mobilization has shifted from national mobilization to local mobilization and national mobilization of some industries. The form of people's participation and support in the war will change obviously: from direct participation to more indirect participation in the war, from emphasizing human and material support to emphasizing technical support, combatants are mainly reserve forces with high technical and military quality. Those who directly participate in the war will adopt a brand-new way of fighting that is different from the past. How to carry out the people's war under the new historical conditions must proceed from the reality of high-tech local wars and make creative thinking.
Second, from the perspective of combat strength, technology-intensive elite confrontation occupies a prominent position in high-tech local wars, and the combat mode that relies solely on human superiority faces challenges. In the past, the scientific and technological content of the people's war was not high, and the technical quality of the combatants was low. We can mobilize the people on a large scale, join the army after simple training, and form an absolute strength advantage against the enemy to make up for the inferior position of the people's army in weapons and equipment. However, under modern conditions, the decisive battle between the two armies is more manifested as a technical contest. The essence of concentrating superior forces in modern warfare is to concentrate superior firepower and rely on the superior operational effectiveness formed by science and technology. In this case, it is difficult to win in the confrontation with the enemy's technology-intensive quality advantage only by relying on manpower advantage, and it is also difficult to make up for the age difference of weapons and equipment with the number of troops. How to give full play to the great strength of the people in the technology-intensive confrontation of elite soldiers is an urgent problem to be solved.
Third, from the perspective of combat space, the direct combat battlefield of high-tech local wars is relatively narrow, and it is challenging to use the vast territory to disperse and consume the enemy. In the future, China will face local wars under high-tech conditions, mainly in local areas of land borders, offshore areas and related airspace. On the one hand, the scope of direct engagement between the two armies is relatively narrow, the attack on the target is highly accurate, and the troops used are highly concentrated. It is difficult to organize the people to use the vast land space to disperse, fatigue and consume the enemy on a large scale. On the other hand, the war has expanded to the multidimensional space of land, sea, air, sky and electricity, and it is difficult to divide the front and rear of the war, and the related space of the war has expanded unprecedentedly. How to exert the overall power of the people's war in the limited direct combat battlefield and the vast war-related space is a brand-new topic.
Fourthly, from the perspective of operational time, high-tech local wars are characterized by quick decisions with compact rhythm, which change the situation through long-term strategic battles, thus facing challenges. The limited political purpose of high-tech local war requires shortening the course and duration of war and speeding up the pace of war; The long-range precision strike force, rapid delivery force and extraordinary damage force of weapons and equipment provide an effective means for quickly achieving war goals. The tactical application of modern high-tech weapons can often achieve strategic results, and a war may be condensed into a battle or even a battle. Therefore, fighting for a long time is more difficult. In the past, the people's war consumed the enemy's effective strength through protracted operations, developed itself and gradually changed the balance of power. This way is difficult to play a role in high-tech local wars. How to quickly mobilize and organize various forces to participate in the war, form and give full play to the advantages of the people's war, and thwart the enemy's attempt to make a quick decision is an important issue before all the military and civilians.
The profound changes in modern war forms and the wide application of high technology in the military field not only pose a severe challenge to the people's war, but also inject unprecedented vitality into it.
First of all, the development of modern high technology provides a new growth point for accumulating the powerful potential of the people's war. After a long-term struggle, China has made great progress in high technology, which has an increasing impact on comprehensive national strength, socio-economic structure and people's lives. The implementation of "rejuvenating the country through science and education" and "strengthening the army through science and technology" in the army shows that the whole country and army have shifted their development focus to relying on scientific and technological progress and improving the quality of personnel. A high-tech industrial army armed with advanced technology and equipment is a frontier force in the people's war under high-tech conditions. All these have laid a solid foundation for winning the people's war under high-tech conditions and created a prerequisite for the army's combat effectiveness to achieve a qualitative leap.
Second, modern and developed information technology provides a new and effective means for mobilizing and organizing people to wage war. The most striking feature of the people's war is the extensive participation of the people. The combination of advanced public opinion and advanced information technology will produce magical effects. With the establishment of a global information dissemination network including satellite communication, the rapid development of radio, television and telecommunications has provided very convenient and effective ways and channels for mobilizing people to participate in and support the war. As long as the national defense education in peacetime is in-depth and effective, and all combat readiness work is truly implemented, once something happens, we can make full use of modern and developed information technology, quickly publicize, mobilize and organize the masses in a very short time, and win the sympathy and support of the international community.
Third, modern high-tech military-civilian compatibility provides new ways and means for the people to participate in and support the war. Modern high technology is increasingly developing in the direction of military-civilian compatibility and military-civilian enjoyment. People are the masters of high technology. They can create and apply high technology, and they can also conquer it. The channels for the people to participate in and support the war have been greatly broadened: modern civil transportation can provide a strong guarantee for military transportation; Well-equipped factories and enterprises can produce military materials after transformation; A large number of scientific research institutions, institutions of higher learning and scientific and technological personnel can be mobilized to serve the war directly or indirectly. Scientific and technological participation and scientific and technological support are promising in high-tech wars, and will even become the main content and mode.
Finally, the modern high-tech combat system is highly dependent on the whole rear area, which provides new ideas and countermeasures for carrying out the people's war extensively. High-tech local war is the overall confrontation between systems, advanced weapons and equipment rely more on the overall combat system, and the long-range strategic delivery of troops depends more on the rear. Any main battle weapon is inseparable from its supporting equipment system. Generally speaking, the bigger the weapon system, the more complex it is, the more fragile it is, and the more prone to problems. We can win the people's war under high-tech conditions by organically combining all forces, mobilizing the people to use various means, including information technology, and concentrating on attacking the enemy's weak links.
Under the condition of modern high technology, we must creatively develop the people's war. It is the only way to adapt to the requirements of the era of high-tech development, build a lean standing army, build a strong reserve force, establish a perfect rapid national defense mobilization mechanism, and combine a lean standing army with a strong reserve force. At the same time, we should also study the new strategy and tactics of the people's war. This kind of research doesn't care about "foreign" or "soil". The key is its effectiveness. Need to work hard on system matching and actual use. We should be good at discovering and summarizing the tactics of defeating the enemy from the war preparations and war practices carried out by the people. During the revolutionary war years, the people created tunnel warfare, mine warfare, sparrow warfare, sabotage warfare and other methods of warfare, which frightened the enemy. These traditional methods of people's war can continue to play a role today as long as they are combined with modern means. In the future people's war under high-tech conditions, many new tactics suitable for the people to participate in the war can be created, such as economic information warfare, cultural information warfare and "hacker" warfare that destroys enemy computer networks; Flexible and diverse maritime guerrilla warfare; Special warfare, sabotage warfare, etc. use high-tech weapons to penetrate behind enemy lines. In a word, we should use innovative people's war strategies and tactics, "You fight yours, I fight mine", concentrate our advantages as far as possible, attack the enemy's center of gravity, combine high-tech and low-tech equipment, combine modern new style of play with traditional style of play, combine military police with civilians, and combine military means with non-military means to form comprehensive strength and overall power, so as to attack the enemy more effectively in future wars.