What's the difference between war, campaign and battle? What does each mean?

There are differences between war, campaign and battle: whole and part, duration, implementation purpose and so on.

I. Definition:

1. War is an activity with a certain scale, which begins with violence and ends with one or more parties losing their violent ability actively or passively, because the rights or interests of more than one group or organization cannot be reconciled or balanced by normal non-violent means. In this kind of activity, spiritual activities and material consumption or production coexist.

2. The campaign is a part of the war, which directly serves and obeys the overall situation of the war, and also affects the overall situation of the war to varying degrees. It directly uses combat and is directly affected by the success or failure of the battle.

3. Fighting is an organized armed conflict between the corps, troops and detachments (single aircraft and single ship) of the opposing sides. This is the main means to win the war.

Second, the specific differences:

1, whole and part.

(1) War is also considered as an extreme means of political diplomacy. It is an extreme behavior among collectives, groups, organizations, nationalities, factions, countries and governments.

(2) The campaign is a part of the war, which directly serves and obeys the overall situation of the war, and also affects the overall situation of the war to varying degrees.

(3) A campaign is a part of a campaign, which consists of several campaigns, and the success or failure of each campaign will affect the campaign.

2. Duration

(1), the war started with violence in the initial stage with a certain scale, and ended with one or more parties losing their violent ability actively or passively. Refers to the whole process with a long time span.

(2) A campaign is the sum total of a series of battles fought in a certain region or war direction in a certain period of time according to the general operational attempt and plan. Refers to a local process with a short time span.

(3) Battle is the shortest of the three. Many battles can be divided into big and small battles, and as short as a few minutes, they can be called battles.

3. Purpose of implementation

(1), war ultimately serves politics, in order to achieve certain political, economic, territorial integrity and other purposes.

(2) The campaign serves the war in order to achieve the partial or overall strategic purpose of the war.

(3) The purpose of fighting is to resolutely destroy the enemy and try to reduce losses.

Extended data:

Without the battlefield of smoke, cyber warfare has never died down.

There is a term in the software development industry called "defect rate of thousands of lines of code", which means 1000 lines of code vulnerability rate. Most software companies may have a vulnerability every 1000 lines of code. According to calculation, the code amount of the most commonly used Windows operating system is about 50 million lines, and the code amount of the Android system is about 6.5438+0.2 million lines. The loopholes can be imagined.

"There are only two systems in the world, one is the system that is known to be broken, and the other is the system that has been broken but you don't know yet." Alexander, the first commander of the US Cyber Army, gave an impressive speech at the 20 15 China Internet Security Conference. His view is that there is no secure system in front of attackers.

There are examples to prove it. Bushehr nuclear power plant is located at 100 km south of Tehran, the Iranian capital, and is a confidential target guarded by the National Defence Force. On July 20 10, it was invaded by a new network virus called "Shenzhen Net". The 8,000 centrifuges working in the nuclear power plant suddenly broke down, and the computer data was lost in a large area, and thousands of them were physically damaged.

In 20 14, the internal documents of two nuclear power plants in Korea were leaked, including the personal information of nearly 10,000 employees of the nuclear power plants, the operating instructions of the nuclear power plants, the design drawings of air conditioning and cooling systems, and the design drawings of valves. According to a report by the US government, hackers have been infiltrating the computer networks of nuclear power plants and other energy equipment companies in the United States since May this year.

Unlike the obvious beginning and end of traditional wars, cyber warfare is always undeclared. In this sense, the world has entered the era of cyber warfare. In this battlefield without smoke, the aircraft cannons that people paid attention to in the past have disappeared, and new network viruses have appeared in black powder.

"Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure can even surpass traditional wars. It is almost impossible for nuclear countries to use nuclear weapons, but cyber attacks are now close to being unconstrained. " Liu Weijun, a professor at the Research Center for Cyberspace Security and Rule of Law of the Public Security University, said that compared with the destruction of the Ukrainian power system, the attack on nuclear power plants was even more terrible, which directly threatened national security.

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