Explore the track of the world-class army building times
■ Xu Wei
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In the picture of human history, war and military development are particularly eye-catching. When we turn our eyes to the historical long river of beacon fire, it is not difficult to find that in the magnificent world change, the strength of the army has always been accompanied by the prosperity of the country, and every era has ushered in a first-class army. Exploring and studying the track of the times in the development of these armed forces and finding out something with regularity will undoubtedly provide us with important enlightenment and reference for realizing the goal of building the army for a hundred years as scheduled and accelerating the building of the people’s army into a world-class army.
Taking military needs as the traction and strengthening capabilities as an urgent task.
Military capability has always been the most critical link in the national security system. From the course of military construction and development in major countries in the world, it can be found that military construction always takes strengthening military capabilities as an urgent task, and military capabilities have been generally regarded as the ultimate standard to measure military strength and the primary task of war preparation. Especially in recent years, some military powers have continuously issued forward-looking military capability assessment and prediction reports, emphasizing the vigorous development of military deterrence and response capabilities. It can be said that strengthening military capability is in the critical period of Qian Fan’s competitive development, which is a rare opportunity period for developing countries. History and practice tell us that the construction of first-class military capabilities needs to firmly grasp the window of transformation from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, starting from the military’s historical mission and taking stopping and winning wars as the standard. At present, the major military powers focus on the need of strategic application, constantly expand into space, distant sea, deep ground, network, electromagnetism and other spaces, plan ahead, step up to fill the "vacancy" of new combat forces, and develop military technology and equipment with decisive influence in new areas and new qualities, with the intention of seizing the "new commanding heights" of future military competition and building a lasting military advantage, which also reflects that the structure of military capabilities will undergo a fundamental mutation and leap. For example, the US military accelerates the development of military capabilities in the direction of "integration, both offensive and defensive, multiplication of advantages, rapidity and accuracy", in an attempt to realize the deep integration of information, firepower, defense, security and control, and form a system capabilities with one operation, multi-domain joint and rapid support.
Take training and preparation for war as the starting point and military training as the central task.
Only when a scholar is skilled in technology can he be good at fighting; Just in case, an Guo often says. Training and preparing for war is the central task and normal presentation of the first-class army. Only by training and preparing in peacetime can we win in wartime. If a country does not make great efforts to improve its army’s winning ability and is ready to deal with possible military conflicts and potential war threats at any time, once war breaks out, it will fall into a passive position and its national security and development interests will be greatly damaged. The practice of army building in some countries in the world has proved that first-class training and preparation for war must always be based on the mission and task, insist on using the military struggle leader to control the combat preparation and continue to exert strength on the actual training and preparation, use the training and warfare as a whole to control the actual combat training to jump to high intensity, normalization and systematization, and use the standard of winning and controlling the combat effectiveness to establish and advance to the heights, depths and realities, so as to truly focus all work on preparing for war and invest all resources in preparing for war. In recent years, the development of the Russian army has benefited to a great extent from always insisting on shaping the situation through training, strengthening preparation through training, and promoting war through training. In particular, it attaches great importance to carrying out a series of targeted combat training to enhance the deterrent ability of clusters in various strategic directions, thus changing the image of the army earlier. It is noteworthy that major military powers are taking the promotion of military intelligent means as an important part of training and preparing for war, closely focusing on the liberation and development of combat effectiveness, and integrating key technologies such as artificial intelligence and autonomous technology of unmanned combat systems into preparing for war, guiding the implementation of operational theory, military personnel and weapons and equipment modernization tasks.In order to speed up the formation of a new pattern of modernization of the ability system for preparing for war, it shows the distinctive characteristics of the times in training and preparing for war.
Taking the integration and energy gathering as the direction and the system layout as the key point.
The joint operation of land, sea, air and space power grids and the operational trend of multi-domain integration system characterized by cross-domain interaction urgently need to plan and construct an integrated operational system layout with deep integration of "detection, strike, control, prevention and protection" from the "long" perspective to form a system victory. This has become the focus of major military powers to promote the construction of first-class troops. In recent years, the concepts of "air-sea integrated warfare", "joint global warfare" and "multi-domain warfare" put forward by the US military are actually systematic products of organically combining air-sea space-based forces, land-based strike forces and network power, which means that the US military is fully committed to optimizing the global layout of military forces through cutting-edge technological advantages in order to meet the arrival of new war forms. Nowadays, the era of winning by relying solely on the advantages of combat units is over. Instead, it is to build a combat force system that combines far and near, soft and hard, and ensure that key areas are controlled by the offensive and defensive advantages of the system. Therefore, the key to the systematic layout of joint operations is to gather the combat energy advantages of different quality areas and quickly integrate all combat modules into the system operations, so as to achieve a composite offensive and defensive situation layout with system synergy, overall linkage, accurate energy release and mutual cooperation. In recent local wars and armed conflicts, the role of information network in the system layout has been shown, which enables multi-combat forces to make decisions and control independently, adaptively, interactively and intelligently. In future operations, we should strengthen the intelligent advantage layout of "cloud" and "net" gathering, skillfully combine tangible forces with intangible "cloud" and "net" layout, and accelerate the formation of operational layout of combining reality with reality and gathering strength.It will become a new model and new trend of system potential distribution and energy accumulation.
Taking the advantage as the main purpose, the joint ownership is the priority option.
Modern warfare is first launched and highly dependent on comprehensively seizing and maintaining the comprehensive control right of the battlefield, which embodies the special significance of the struggle for control right to the war dominance. And planning the joint action of key control operations plays a crucial and decisive role in competing for the control of key dimensions. Among them, winning the information advantage is the key to joint ownership. The United States, Russia and other military powers generally believe that various combat forces in the era of information and intelligence must take the control advantage of multi-domain space as the basis for carrying out multiple tasks. The Russian army emphasizes improving the timeliness and anti-interference of joint combat force delivery, and defeating opponents with cross-domain coordination and gathering Excellence. This shows that, in the struggle for control, we must first keep the initiative strategically, that is, strategically establish the direction, goal and path for obtaining the joint control right, stipulate the means and methods for creating and applying the overall advantage, and form an advantageous position in intelligent technology and weapon system, information acquisition and utilization and control ability. At present, some military powers take "big data intelligent technology and super network technology" as the "key catalyst" to seize control, aiming to form a decisive military advantage, which is a major strategic turn of military powers since military informationization. In the future competition for power control, only by building an intelligent efficiency link and control relationship with parallel flow and high aggregation of material information can the joint power control efficiency emerge through linkage and energy accumulation.
Focusing on battlefield confrontation, improving efficiency is the key factor.
Military activities and combat forces are inseparable from the physical and virtual battlefields of multi-dimensional space confrontation, and the rapid integration of multiple fields forms an integrated battlefield system, which makes the pursuit of maximizing the benefits of confrontation become the key to battlefield confrontation, and it is also a subject that needs to be highly valued in building a first-class army. In recent years, major military powers have accelerated the construction of comprehensive information systems covering the full-dimensional space of the battlefield and pursued the overall benefits of battlefield confrontation. At present, the US military has nearly 10,000 intelligent unmanned information network systems in the air and on the ground, and they are still being continuously upgraded. Focusing on solving the bottlenecks such as the difficulty in dealing with information-based battlefield accusations and the paralysis of the combat system, the future focus of battlefield system construction will be to establish a more perfect and flexible control system and operation mechanism based on the intelligent system of rapid independent decision-making, efficient information processing, precise coordinated operations and automatic control of weapons and equipment, and pay attention to doubling the effectiveness of battlefield cognition, command and control, precision strike and information attack and defense confrontation. In addition, around the control of the battlefield space, the future battlefield confrontation will present a "flash" of strength, highlighting the joint attack of multiple forces, rapidly accumulating strength, and suddenly exerting strength, forming a trend of hard and soft integration; The "quick integration" of means effectively integrates and uses various means to gather the combat energy of different quality areas, forming a multi-dimensional coordinated and prudent trend of attacking and helping the defense; The "quick fight" in action, real-time scene and efficient decision-making, seize the favorable opportunity, and form the local advantage of the battlefield with rapid and high-intensity suppression in the whole region. This is the focus of the research and application of battlefield confrontation by major military powers at present, and it will certainly become a new scene and new content for both sides to pay attention to combat.
Take foresight as the first step and scientific and technological innovation as the strategic support.
With the rapid development of the new round of scientific and technological revolution, industrial revolution and military revolution, the leading role of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and other technical fields is prominent. Major military powers pay more attention to the continuous promotion of innovation in an important position, and systematically plan and build ahead in innovative concepts, models, standards, systems and applications, providing important strategic support for building a first-class army. After World War II, some countries became military powers, and one of the most important fulcrums was the extensive use of the latest science and technology, which produced new areas and new quality combat forces and promoted the leap-forward development of military combat effectiveness. At present, major military powers insist on using cutting-edge technologies to make innovative breakthroughs, and step up research and development of operational platforms with faster speed, higher information intelligence content and greater damage efficiency in an attempt to maintain an absolute leading position. It should be noted that the century-old changes in the world have accelerated the evolution, and the new military revolution is in the ascendant, which makes it more important to judge the direction of scientific and technological innovation. As an accelerator to promote the construction and development of the first-class army, scientific and technological innovation has become more obvious, especially in the key areas and key means, and key breakthroughs have been made to promote system capabilities’s multi-dimensional attack and defense and accelerate the overall transformation in the military field. This requires accurate prediction of the new forms and features of future wars, continuous application of advanced technological achievements, efforts to promote the fundamental transformation of the generation mode of combat effectiveness, and accelerate the formation of powerful asymmetric winning and strategic checks and balances. This is the first move and strong support for first-class army building.
