What are the changes in the combat forces?

Informatization era, the military field of the various elements of the information technology organic "paste" together, the military force structure tends to a high degree of integration, like "the eggs were broken and stirred after the mixture" has been indistinguishable from the "you and me". "You and I". Military boundaries tend to be blurred in depth, the combat forces have formed a highly operational system or system, the combat form is also naturally manifested as an integrated joint operations, combat system in the combat units, combat elements can be "interconnected, interoperability, interoperability", "touching the combat system in the Any part of the combat system will cause the reaction of the whole system, the destruction of any part of the system will affect the overall effectiveness of the combat system to play.

The Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq under the conditions of the four modernization of the local war rapid victory, overwhelming victory of the irony of the fact that fully demonstrated the integration of combat forces system of the great power of the combat units and elements of the combat system constitutes an organic system, the combat effectiveness of a substantial increase in the effectiveness of the system of combat units of combat effectiveness has increased exponentially. Integration of combat power system makes it difficult to compare and contrast with the traditional combat power organization. It can be compared to this image: integrated combat power system is "diamond", and the traditional combat power organization is "graphite", because the structure of the two are essentially different, although the composition is very similar, it is clear that "diamond" has a more powerful than "graphite". Diamond" has a much stronger hardness than "graphite". First, the performance of the integration of combat forces

1. The boundaries between military branches will be broken

Information war, due to the wide application of information technology on the battlefield, the army has a new command, control, communications and intelligence capabilities, will make the traditional land, sea and air battlefield connected to a land, sea and air force can ride the unity of the combat space, to ensure that all the participating forces and combatants can be implemented under the unified operational intent. The ability to implement multi-military joint operations under a unified operational intent, thus greatly promoting the vertical and horizontal ties of the military. This trend will undoubtedly cause a fundamental impact on the traditional military service structure, will prompt the rapid development and expansion of the scope of military service synthesis, breaking the boundaries between the system and the system to form a coherent and coordinated whole, and ultimately lead to the formation of a truly integrated land, sea and air forces.

2. Military and civilian technology and equipment more closely linked

From the equipment side, in the industrial age, tanks, aircraft, warships, artillery is completely independent of civilian products outside of the pure tools of war, and in the information age, although these steel behemoths still exist, but more, more important weaponry is refined, intelligent electronic information equipment. And most of these military equipment and civilian products have partial or full compatibility, so many civilian products can be used as military equipment for military services.

From the technical aspect, the scientific and technological content of the future war will continue to increase. Because of the increased civil-military versatility of science and technology, many military technologies can find compatible civilian technologies. With the deepening of the army's dependence on information systems, with the increasing proportion of civilian information and communication systems in information warfare facilities, civilian information technology will increasingly reflect the military nature.

3. Difference between military and civilians will be narrowed

War in the industrial era, the military in the front, civilians in the rear; military with guns to fight the war, the civilian labor support, the two boundaries are clear. But in the future information war, the battlefield is not divided into front and rear, and the war is not divided into whether to hold a gun or not. Scientists and engineers can not only provide maintenance and protection support for the military's information system, especially in the computer virus control and confrontation, and network "hackers" to give full play to their strengths in the fight, but also can directly utilize the military or civilian communications networks, computer networks and television networks, as well as a variety of equipment that can produce electromagnetic spectrum

Two, networked information systems for the integration of combat forces to provide technical support

Networked information systems, refers to the computer as the core of the battlefield perception, information transmission, command and control of the integrated network, through which it can be effective to the integration of the various combat units as a whole, in order to better play the overall effectiveness of the combat. The tree-like, vertical command communication system of the industrial era seriously restricts the collection, processing and utilization of battlefield information, thus hindering the optimal aggregation of combat forces and making it difficult to achieve system confrontation. Under the condition of information technology, the formation of networked information system can realize the real-time information **** enjoyment between the military branches. At present, the most typical networked information system is the U.S. Army's C4ISR system. In the information war, as the main weaponry of the C4ISR system, information warfare equipment, precision-guided weapons and informationized combat platforms, through the seamless connection of the global information grid, will form a full-dimensional, all-weather, all-weather integrated, real-time combat system. In such a combat system, the traditional war in the kind of greed for big, seek the whole and the concept of chasing the high will have no meaning, because the variety, scale, performance is no longer to improve the effectiveness of the key elements of combat, system integration and horizontal integration has become the most critical elements. Weapons and equipment varieties again, scale again, performance again, if you can not merge into the system, it is impossible to play a role in the battlefield, not only can not form combat power, but will become a good target. Informatization battlefield is a systematic confrontation of the battlefield, with a perfect informatization combat system of the party can control the means of combat, flexible selection of targets and control the process and rhythm of the war; there is no corresponding informatization combat system of the party, then the dragon has no head, a plate of scattered sand, a large number of people, but no soul, and therefore it is difficult to form the combat effectiveness.

Third, the integration of combat forces to make the system confrontation has become the main mode of confrontation

The computer as the core of the information processing technology and information network technology, can realize the informationization of the various units in the combat. Information control system to optimize a variety of informatization of resources, a variety of combat elements and combat units to "organic system" face to play the best combat effectiveness. The specific situation is like this: in the information network system of all-dimensional connection and aggregation, so that the hostile sides of the reconnaissance and detection, information processing, fire, battlefield maneuver, offensive and defensive actions, command and control, support and security, forming an organic integrated combat system, constituting an unprecedented combat system. The commanders utilize it for system-to-system and system-to-system resistance. This makes the traditional confrontation of troops and firepower as the unit of calculation of the laws of war has undergone profound changes, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq have fully proved this change. Systematic combat significantly improves the overall combat capability of the battlefield, and can form an integrated joint combat synergy to control the enemy.

Cold weapons period and hot weapons period, people's combat ideology is mainly to eliminate the other side of the living forces, combat mode single, limited confrontation force, it is difficult to reach the system confrontation. Under the condition of information technology, people no longer focus on the annihilation of the enemy, capturing the enemy as the main symbol of victory, but focus on destroying the overall structure of the enemy's combat system, paralyze its main functions, and then make the enemy lose the will to resist and the ability to achieve the goal of not fighting or small war and give up the enemy's troops.

Based on these guiding ideology of combat, under the impetus of information technology, electronic warfare, network warfare, information firefighting, special warfare, psychological warfare and other combat modes of war stage, to become the focus of the enemy combat system to combat the key targets and key nodes of the method and means of warfare, can be effective on the enemy's information network nodes, command and control systems, reconnaissance and early warning systems, support and support systems, transportation hubs, etc. to implement the strike, resulting in the enemy information failure, the enemy's ability to combat, the enemy's information, the enemy's ability to combat. Strike, resulting in enemy information failure, command interruption, radar blindness, weapons out of control, supply difficulties, mobility restrictions, and ultimately make the enemy combat system dysfunction or complete loss. It can be seen that the combat mode under informationization conditions can strongly promote the formation of system confrontation, and will become the main combat method and means of system confrontation.