Mine warfare, tunnel warfare, guerrilla warfare, attack and annihilate warfare ... these are the battle scenes we often see in war movies. In that bonfire era, the stories and classic shots of our army's heroic fighting influenced generations of young people. In our minds, the battlefield is nothing more than machine guns, artillery and planes, fighting for positions.
In recent years, American war movies have begun to impact our vision. Not only the grand battle scenes attract our attention, but also the brand-new concept of war has opened our eyes. Especially after the start of the Iraq war in 2003, the US military launched joint operations around the "decapitation operation", and its comprehensive integration and integrated combat mode made us feel refreshed. Whether it is an illusory war movie or the real Iraq war, it is obvious that this war mode is different from the war mode in our consciousness.
This is information warfare.
Information warfare sprouted from the new technological revolution with microelectronics as the core proposed by the United States from 1980 to 1983. Until the Gulf War of 199 1, information weapons and equipment such as satellites and GPS began to play an important role in the war, and information warfare began to appear. This war can be regarded as an important turning point in the transformation from mechanized war to information war.
Since the 1990s, China has proposed to win the high-tech war, and to change from quantity-scale type to quality-benefit type, and from manpower-intensive type to technology-intensive type. In other words, our army has begun to carry out information construction.
1999 The Kosovo War can be regarded as the first real information war in the world. Its characteristics are: for the first time, air power was completely used to fight, ground troops did not advance from beginning to end, information equipment was widely used, and finally zero casualties were achieved in the war. Then came the war in Afghanistan, which realized networking and interconnection. There are no big troops in front, only small combat units, and the commander commands through the network monitoring screen at the rear. The Iraq war in 2003 was a war with a very high degree of informationization, and the live broadcast of the war was realized with few casualties and rapid progress. These three wars are the initial stage of information warfare.
With the development of science and technology, weapons and equipment, military reform is constantly developing and changing. At present, the new military revolution we refer to is mainly a new military revolution with informatization as the core and informatization war as the main goal. What is the effect of this new military revolution? Can be verified in actual combat. The United States launched four wars: the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War, all of which verified the innovative achievements of the new military reform. Therefore, the verification of wars is also a major driving force to promote military reform.
Personally, I think there are several factors that have promoted the change of war form. First of all, social change has greatly promoted and catalyzed the form of war. The information war we are talking about today is driven by the information age. The second is the progress of science and technology. Science and technology have always been the booster and motive force to promote the development and change of war styles and forms. As we all know, without nuclear technology, there would be no nuclear weapons, and without nuclear weapons, there would be no rocket army and missile army, and of course there would be no theory of nuclear war. Another motive is the brewing of military reform. The progress of science and technology promotes the development of weapons and equipment, and the change of weapons and equipment requires the corresponding reform of the establishment system; The reform of the establishment system also requires the innovation of military theory, which in turn requires the reform of the whole army. All these changes are called military reform.
Information warfare is comprehensive integration, technical integration and integrated operations, forming a strong combat effectiveness.
Information warfare is not an isolated cold weapon and hot weapon, but mainly pays attention to comprehensive integration and technical integration. We say that the core of the new military revolution is informationization and intelligence. The essence of the new military revolution is comprehensive integration and technical integration, and the way and measure to realize the new military revolution is to implement precise control. What is precise control? Precise control is like a faucet. Once the water is boiled, it won't leak. What is full integration? Tanks, planes, aircraft carriers, satellites and missiles are all separate weapons and equipment, and there is no necessary connection between them. The new military revolution now is to connect unrelated weapons and equipment into a system, and only by forming a system can it be integrated. The purpose of comprehensive integration is to integrate them into powerful combat effectiveness.
The thought of people's war is the magic weapon for our army to defeat the enemy in previous revolutionary wars. What is the possibility of "fighting a people's war" with the change of war form in the future war? Will the "people" play a less and less role in the war? Is the "People's War Thought" out of date?
Now entering the information age, under the leadership of the Party, our army is still advancing with the times in accordance with the theory of people's war, building an information-based army and preparing for winning the future information-based war. The changes of the times can give people's war more new connotations. The new combat space in the future is mainly manifested in three aspects: ocean, outer space and information space. Under the condition of informationization in the future, the advantages of the people's war will continue to play. For example, information warfare and cyber warfare are all based on information technology and information equipment, and the advantages of these things lie in the people. Civil information technology is ahead of military information technology, computer software and hardware, Internet router and broadband technology, mobile phone communication and short message technology, satellite communication and navigation technology. , are leading the military civilian technology. There are also network hacking technology, network virus technology and so on. And information warfare needs to rely more on the people.
In the information war, people have more opportunities to participate in the war. The direction of military development in the future is to continue to reduce the number of regular troops, increase the potential of war mobilization, and quickly transform the war potential into war strength through the rapid mobilization system when the country needs it, thus supporting and winning the war. Therefore, the people's war theory is not out of date, but should add new connotations to make it richer and more complete.
Another thing to note is that the people's war is not a naval battle. There is no front line behind the future war, so there is no problem of not going to the front line; It is difficult to distinguish between soldiers and civilians in future wars, so there is no question of direct participation and indirect participation. Of course, this is a division in the general strategic sense. As far as direct combat troops are concerned, future wars pay attention to non-contact, nonlinear and asymmetric operations, which is a problem at the level of joint operations. The level of joint operations should be explained by the concept of joint operations, and should not be confused with the people's war, which guides joint operations.
We want to rise peacefully, we should take economic construction as the center, and our army should just swallow its pride, hide its strength and bide its time, never seek hegemony, and never speak lightly and fight lightly. Young people, in particular, should keep a cool head and not be confused by some purposeful remarks and rumors abroad. People say that the aircraft carrier is good, so we will follow suit. People say you want to dominate China, so we follow blindly. In fact, people with ulterior motives are messing up and provoking China's international relations.
Throughout China, we have experienced ups and downs for thousands of years. Today, we are faced with the opportunity of information warfare, and we must seize this opportunity. We have experienced a century-long decline from 1840 to 1949, and will also experience a century-long construction from 1949 after the founding of the People's Republic of China to 2050. In the next 50 years, we will realize our dream of becoming a powerful country. We must have a world vision and strategic thinking. Now the world's vision is the new military revolution, and the strategic thinking is information construction and information application. The application of informatization to national construction, e-government, radio and television networking and communication networking is to win the information war and use information in the military's combat readiness. In this case, we integrate it through the network system. What is the core of integration? Comprehensive integration, technical integration. The development of our military weapons and equipment should focus on four aspects, namely C4ISR system, information warfare equipment, precision guided weapons and information platform.
We have reason to believe that the informationization of national defense in the informationization military transformation is based on the strong support of the national information industry as the driving force for development and is rooted in the entire national economy and scientific and technological foundation. After years of development, China's information industry has accumulated strong independent innovation and production capacity, laying a solid foundation for China's national defense informatization construction. With the vigorous development of China's information industry and the accelerated implementation of integration of defense and civilian technologies, China's national defense strength will reach a higher level, surpassing.