What is informationized war and what are its basic characteristics?

Informatization war refers to the paralysis, deterrence and overall combat that takes place in the information age, based on information, with informationized weapons and equipment as the main tools of war and means of combat, and dominated by comprehensive integration and information control, and carried out in the full-dimensional space by means of precise strikes, real-time control, and information attack and defense. Informatization war is also called high-tech war by some countries because it gathers a lot of high-precision modern technology. Its main features are:

First, the war is controllable.

War is a continuation of politics. All politicians want the war to be carried out according to their own design, but the previous war lacked controllability. Often, the war machine is a running, it is not transferred by human will, the process and scale of the war is difficult to control. While high-tech weaponry is killing and destroying power can be effectively controlled means of war, so that the war has a certain degree of controllability, and become an effective tool for politicians to achieve political purposes. High-tech war controllability, mainly in the following three aspects:

1, can effectively control the purpose of the strike: with the emergence of precision-guided weapons, precision strikes gradually replace the "carpet" bombardment has become the war's most important way of striking. Relying on the high hit accuracy of precision-guided weapons, the previous need for multiple bombings to complete the combat task, now as long as one or two attacks can achieve the purpose, can effectively avoid the surrounding non-military targets.

2, can effectively control the scale of war: high-tech war, high-tech weapons and equipment, high precision, high power, combat traffic multiplier, in order to complete a combat mission without the need to invest in a large number of troops and weaponry as in the past, can effectively control the scale of the war; on the other hand, precision-guided weapons of the high hit accuracy, can be avoided to a certain extent in the war spills over to non-military targets, can effectively avoid a war of non-military targets. hit targets, can effectively avoid the war outreach and war escalation.

3, can effectively control the course of the war: due to the combat weapons reconnaissance range, striking a long distance, high-tech war is no longer like the previous war, from the front of the battlefield to the depths of one by one, high-tech weapons have been able to strike through the depths of the important targets, directly to achieve the strategic objectives, so that the war is also avoided for a long time to avoid indecision, shorten the course of the war, so that the war can be planned as scheduled end as planned.

Two, the battlefield space is vast

In terms of the spatial form of the battlefield, high-tech weapons and equipment in the war is widely used, greatly expanding the battlefield space, high-tech conditions of local war presents a high three-dimensional, large depth of the characteristics of the combat space has never been greater. This is mainly the following aspects:

1, from the regional battlefield to the global battlefield extension: high-tech war conditions, high-tech weaponry range and range increase, weaponry long-distance combat capability unprecedented increase in the range of intercontinental missiles can reach tens of thousands of kilometers, the United States of America's B1, B2, the former Soviet Union's Figure 160 and other types of strategic bombers, rice species have reached 10,000 kilometers or more, the The army has a long-range strike capability. Although the actual contact area between the two sides of a local war belligerents is small, but any corner of the world may become part of the battlefield.

2, from the air battlefield to the extension of the space battlefield: 1903, the United States Wright brothers invented the airplane, and from then on opened the door to the air war. 1957, the former Soviet Union launched the first not to make a satellite, mankind began to extend the tentacles of war to the distant space. In several high-tech local wars, military satellites have played a huge power. At present, space has become the most intense military competition in the field, military powers are the control of space as a necessary condition to win the future war. The United States and Russia even set up an independent space force: the Sky Army.

3, from the tangible battlefield to the invisible battlefield extension: with the application of a variety of electronic technology in weaponry, the electronic battlefield began to embark on the stage of war. Electronic warfare is the hostile parties to use electronic technology equipment for the electromagnetic field of struggle, it is electronic reconnaissance and counter reconnaissance, electronic jamming and anti-jamming, electronic destruction and counter-destruction as the basic content of the purpose is to weaken, destroy each other's normal work of electronic equipment, so that the communication interruption, command paralysis, weapons unrecognized, radar blindness, and ultimately promote the ability to fight, which is the modern battlefield to win the victory of the nerve center.

Three, the system confrontation highlights

Military confrontation has never been a system confrontation. In the high-tech war, this confrontation is more prominent. With the development of high technology, the weapon system "a spear and a shield" mutual constraints on the situation has been "more spears and shields" mutual constraints on the new characteristics of the replacement. Weapons combat traffic play, not only depends on the killing power of its combat unit, but also depends on the composition of the nod system of intelligence systems, command and control systems, communication systems, information processing systems, mobile systems, protection systems and other subsystems **** with the role. The combat effectiveness of the entire combat system is no longer a simple addition of the effectiveness of each combat system, but the whole is greater than the part of the multiplier relationship, especially for several key systems of the product of the effectiveness of the system. From the aspect of weapons and equipment, any kind of high-tech weapons and equipment, if there is no other weapons and equipment with, no matter how advanced it is technologically, will not be able to complete the combat task. From the combat aspect, with the wide application of high-tech weapons in the battlefield, each battlefield, military forces are not now a single combat, to the multi-military, multi-space as one of the characteristics of the joint operation on the stage of the war, a single species of war to determine the victory of the times has gone, only relying on the military and various weapons systems coordinated action, in order to obtain the victory of the war of high technology.

Four, combat style diversification

History shows that technology determines tactics, what kind of military technology, there will be what kind of combat style, the progress of military technology and weapons and equipment changes are bound to promote changes in combat style. High-tech war, with a large number of high, new technology and equipment widely used, there are a variety of combat modes: missile attack-style precision warfare, surgical point of war, destruction of structural paralysis war, non-lethal type of soft kill war, command and control type of information warfare, land, sea, air and sky electric integrated full-dimensional war, in addition, there are environmental warfare, space warfare, psychological warfare, and so on.

Fifth, command and control automation

After World War II, due to the increasingly complex structure of weapons and equipment, the increasing number of military and military types in the war, the battlefield is expanding, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, the amount of military information is increasing unprecedentedly, the difficulty of the combat command is increasing, in a very short period of time, to a variety of combat forces, a variety of ways to implement the effective command and play the overall power, without a high degree of Automated command means, it is difficult to complete the combat task. Under such requirements, the development of modern science and technology, especially the development of reconnaissance technology, communication technology and computer technology, promotes the establishment of the army automation command system, the army command, control, communication and intelligence into one, so that the army automation can be established. This is also known as the C4ISR system.

Sixth, combat consumption

From the perspective of combat security, high-tech war presents the characteristics of huge consumption, the main reasons are the following three aspects:

1, the rising cost of weaponry: due to the increasing automation of weapons and equipment, intelligence, intensive direction of the development of an advanced piece of weaponry, often focusing on the results of a large number of scientific research, the development of difficult, long cycle, high risk. Large, long cycle, high risk. Therefore, the cost of researching and producing high-tech weapons and equipment and the input of purchasing high-tech weapons and equipment have increased significantly. Such as M1 tanks for 2 million U.S. dollars / vehicle, "Patriot" missiles for 1.1 million U.S. dollars / piece, F15 fighter jets for 50.4 million U.S. dollars / frame ......

2, personnel training costs increase: high-tech weapons and equipment in the maneuvering use, Maintenance, flexible utilization and combat synergy and other aspects of the increasing complexity, the need for high-quality military personnel to drive. Because of this, countries around the world now attach great importance to the training of military personnel, so that the army's cultural quality continues to improve.

3, increased consumption of battlefield materials: high-tech war is also a high-energy war, look at several local wars after World War II, with the war's high technology is more and more obvious, its consumption is also increasing. The average daily consumption of supplies to a single soldier, for example, World War II is 20 kilograms, the Vietnam War is 90 kilograms, the Gulf War has reached 200 kilograms.

The battlefield consumption of this feature shows that the high-tech war is a strong comprehensive national strength as a backing. Without a strong comprehensive national strength, the modernization of the army can not begin; without a strong comprehensive national strength, it is difficult to support high-tech war.

In the face of a possible high-tech war in the future, it is necessary to start now to enhance our comprehensive national strength in education, economy and other aspects, in order to prepare for winning the war.