What kind of characteristics of the information war compared with the traditional war?

History has repeatedly proved that when new forms of war appear, the old forms of war will not immediately exit the stage of war; hesitant some of the old conditions of war for a long time and play a role in the traditional line of combat methods and styles do not account for the disappearance of science. At the beginning of the information war, the impact of information on the war, although the rising trend, but has not yet reached a dominant position, mechanization and informationization intertwined and coexist, the war transition will be a gradual process of change. This period of combat can also be called: "information technology conditions" combat, is the development of information technology combat insurmountable initial stage, although higher than the traditional mechanized combat, but not yet mature, especially their own characteristics and laws.

Informatization of combat is in such a background, reflecting the fact that information technology to combat preparation and combat operations of the full penetration of a fact.

(I) the basic connotation of information warfare:

1: the definition of information warfare

the so-called information warfare, is the emergence of a brand-new military confrontation tower after the mechanized war, refers to the information-based army as the main combat force, information-based weaponry as the main combat tools, information-based combat as the main form of combat in the land, sea, air, space, electricity, network cognition and other multi-dimensional spatial domains. Network cognition and other multi-bit spatial field of system and inter-system confrontation.

2: the definition of information warfare and information combat:

Broad information station is also known as strategic information warfare, refers to the hostile parties in the political, economic, scientific and technological, diplomatic, cultural, military and other fields, the use of information and information technology means in order to fight for the initiative and the information confrontation and struggle; narrow information warfare refers to the information confrontation of the military operation, the purpose of the combat is to compete for the information advantage.

3: the definition of information technology combat

The so-called information technology combat, with the emergence of information technology war and the corresponding concept derived from the battlefield confrontation form of information technology war. Its meaning is highly dependent on information, information systems, information weapons and equipment of the opposing sides, around the information process, on land, sea, air, space, electromagnetic, network cognition and other authoritative battlefield, to seize and establish information superiority as the core of the integration of military action confrontation.

(2) the basic characteristics of information warfare:

1, technology support, information-led

If you describe the mechanized combat to fight the "steel", then the information warfare is to fight the "information". This will become the signature feature of information technology combat.

2, structure tight, system confrontation

One is the integrated information system will be land, air, sea, space and other physical space, information, network, cognitive and other virtual space, as well as the configuration and the period of the reconnaissance and surveillance, command and control, precision strikes, support and protection of the battle forces connected to become a unified organic whole; two is the military boundaries are broken, the military types of combat will realize a high degree of integration and synthesis; three is the human and weapons, and the military will be able to achieve a high degree of integration and synthesis; three is the human and weapons. Integration of synthesis; Third, the combination of people and weapons and equipment will be unprecedentedly close; Fourth, the combat forces and support and security forces will be closely coordinated, coordinated action, practiced as a whole; Fifth, the campaign and strategic, tactical operations are highly integrated, strategic level, campaign level, tactical level operations tend to blur the boundaries. Sixth, the integrity of the entire combat system, stability, destruction resistance will be greatly improved.

3, the expansion of space and time, all-dimensional combat

First of all, the combat tempo accelerated, the first Gulf War time: January 17 began 38 days of air operations to cut off the Iraqi army, the ground operation was launched on February 23rd and ended on February 28th at zero o'clock. (EST); the second Gulf War (Iraq War) began on March 20, and Baghdad was captured in three weeks.

The second is the expansion of the battlespace. In the Iraq War, the land, sea, air, sky and electricity together power completely suppressed the Iraqi army

The second is a high degree of integration of space and time. In the entire combat process, the battlefield is the flow of the battlefield, information is real-time information, time, space and power and other elements are highly integrated.

4, full-range control, precision strikes

The informationization of the combat can be controlled, efficient, economical combat.

First of all, to seize the right to comprehensive control, effective control of the battlefield has become the goal of the combatants.

There are two results of control: for their own side, you can make the power amplification, combat effectiveness multiplied; for the local, you can make the system paralyzed, the troops lost command, the case of weapons can not be excited, combat effectiveness is difficult to play.

Secondly, the implementation of node destruction and precision strikes have become a prominent feature of combat.

Through the time of recent local wars can be seen, the proportion of precision-guided weapons used in the war is rising, has been from 0.2% in the Vietnam War, the Gulf War in the 8%, increased to 68% in the Iraq war.

5, man-machine integration, efficient command.

First of all, the human can only be fully integrated with the performance of weapons and equipment.

At present, the U.S. Army uses "Tomahawk" cruise missiles, JDAM (JDAM) satellite-guided bombs, etc. are preliminary intelligent weapons.

Secondly, the art of human command is tightly integrated with the effectiveness of intelligent platforms.

6, one protection, strong support

The technical, integrated, all-empty characteristics of information technology combat, determines the complexity and arduousness of the task of its protection.

First of all, it will establish a demand-based, real-time integrated security.

Secondly, it will establish a rapid multi-dimensional safeguard based on the whole.

Once again, a scale-based, strength-based system guarantee will be established.

(C) the typical combat operations of information warfare

one, information firepower integrated warfare

Features:

1, networked overall linkage as the basic form of expression

2, to the network and electricity integrated information ****ometer as a precursor and run through the whole process of the operation

3, to the over-visual range of precision strikes as the main mode of action

4, to build the accusation of one coordinated and flexible combat system as the main material support

Principles of action:

1, three-dimensional reconnaissance, the whole process of monitoring

2, focus on the effectiveness of focused assaults

3, the system of confrontation, the system is paralyzed

4, instant response, real-time strikes

5, comprehensive planning, accurate Security

Second, air and space integrated warfare

Characteristics:

1, vast territory, multi-dimensional integration

2, weapons and new technology, the power of the extraordinary

3, condescending, the effectiveness of the leap

Principles of action:

1, unified planning, the overall confrontation

2, proactive, the first mechanism of the enemy

3, focused on the enemy, the first time, the first time to fight against the enemy

3, the first time to fight against the enemy

5, the first time to fight against the enemy

3, concentrated advantage, node strike

three, structural paralysis war

four, consciousness paralysis war

includes: public opinion war, psychological warfare, legal warfare, etc.

five, the new special warfare

six, the new concept of war

(d) the development trend of information technology combat

1, diversified controllable, highly effective Full general control.

Multiple controllable, is an extension of the war control, mainly emphasizing the information can be controlled, space can be controlled, power can be controlled, action can be controlled.

2, one combat, all time and space effective combat

One combat, also known as integrated combat, is based on the control of information advantage in the capture and in the whole time, the authority of the space to implement the effective combat based on the whole linkage combat, is the advanced form of information technology combat and maturity stage.

3, precision combat, long-range decisive blow

Precision combat, is the information technology weapons and equipment in the process of the release of the concentration of the release of precision, is the decisive element of information technology combat. The future of informationized combat, remote precision strike will become an important mode of combat. Precision and long-range technology, tactical breakthroughs, mainly relying on the dominant role of information and information technology combat system has been perfected. Precision strike, precision maneuver and long-range combat will be realized through the perfect combination of firepower, mechanical power and information power.

4, rapid combat, near real-time direct access to vital

5, stealth combat, high-tech platform confrontation

6, indirect combat, biological weapons, and psychological weapons and other new concepts of weapons to the foreground

(E) some of my views

1: the rapidity of information technology combat, miniaturization

information technology combat. Although the battlefield space to expand, but the duration of the war is shortening trend, the recent several information technology conditions of local war to prove that carry out that the decisive battle, victory or defeat results are likely to be clear in a very short time. As the information war is based on the effectiveness of the war, the pursuit of limited political objectives, the use of precision-guided weapons, conscious control of the scale of killing and destruction, reduce collateral damage, both sides of the use of all kinds of resources are more concerned about the consumption ratio, pay attention to the assessment of the combat effect of the effective use of all kinds of resources at the right time, the investment of troops is relatively reduced, and more and more tends to be a small-scale combat.

2: changes in the guiding ideology of combat

Informatization of the pursuit of limited objectives, no longer simply focus on the attack on the city and the land, from the destruction of the enemy tends to paralyze the enemy, from the elimination of rivals tends to conquer rivals, from the defeat of the enemy country tends to change the enemy country. Information warfare is no longer simply emphasize the military means of confrontation, the second is to pay more attention to the set of political, military, diplomatic, legal, psychological, public opinion and other means of multi-position space and the field of integrated competition.

In the Iraq war, the U.S. military expected the most difficult should be the attack on Baghdad, but after entering Baghdad, 80,000 Saddam death squads have disappeared, Saddam death squads are regarded as the most powerful Iraqi army, all deployed in Baghdad and Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. It was later proved that the then commander of Saddam's death squads had defected in a helicopter before coalition forces reached Baghdad, leaving the 80,000-strong force suddenly out of command and without any organized resistance.

3: The world's current direction of information technology development

There are roughly three types of information technology in the world: the first type is the leadership represented by the U.S. military. Since the end of the 1970s, the U.S. Army has relied on the strong national strength to take the lead in the new type of combat to explore the experimental stage, spending huge sums of money for information technology transformation, so far its information embedded in the primitive accumulation has been nearly the end of the initial departure from the mechanization of the combat arena, with information technology to fight some of the conditions. The second type is the follow-up type represented by the armies of some French countries, following the steps of the U.S. military development, but also has its own characteristics. The third type is the key leap forward type represented by China, Russia and other countries' armies. Both learning from the strengths of developed countries' armies to actively develop information technology combat capabilities, but also combined with the actual country, to take the road of development with a focus on leapfrogging.

4: Analysis of regular changes in the primary stage of information technology combat

The primary stage of information technology combat, also known as the stage of combat under information technology conditions, in the recent local wars, you can already see some of these regular changes, mainly in the following areas:

1. Strike the target, began to follow the system to break down Expand

Some careful people say: to know where the world is going to war, look up and see where the satellites in the sky are concentrated will know.

3. The steps of the fight began to be arranged according to the three levels of the accusation layer - the support layer - the fighting layer.

Battle layer: troops, equipment system; support layer: material security system; control layer: command and control system.

5: on as soon as possible to adapt to the requirements of the primary stage of information technology combat thinking

1. Conceptual change is the most fundamental change

2003 Iraq war, people did not see the aircraft to aircraft air combat, nor did they see tanks to tanks to kill. Iraqi *** and the National Guard to take advantage of the sandstorm, had deployed thousands of tanks to the U.S. Army counterattack, but the moment it showed its head was found by U.S. and British reconnaissance aircraft and satellites, by the U.S. and British attack planes and helicopter gunships of the air to hunt and kill. The Iraqi army's dream of a Kursk-style tank Armageddon was blown to smithereens by the overwhelming precision strikes.

2. Strategic Transformation is the Most Critical Transformation

The evolution of U.S. military strategy during the Cold War was, roughly speaking, a 10-year change, while after the Cold War it became a change every 2-3 years, but of course, there is some inheritance in each change. So far, the U.S. military strategy has gone through 9 major adjustments, and for the Chinese army, the transformation must be unfolded from the heart of the strategy, starting from winning the war of informationization, and starting from the construction of the informationized army, which in itself is a strategic issue that can not be shaken.

3. Institutional change is the most basic reform

4. The most core competition in the battle of science and technology

5. Theoretical innovation is the most urgent innovation

Innovation is the soul of all theories, and theories are the integration of innovations. History clearly proves that a nation or an army that is good at innovating theories can always seize the opportunity and lose no time to make itself step up to a new level in the change of the times.

6. The path of independence and autonomy is the most reliable path

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