Information Warfare Doctrine

Author: Dong Zifeng
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book provides a fresh perspective and tools to examine the historical evolution of human military forms, systematically revealing the comprehensive and profound impact of the revolution in the war mediation system on the nature of war. It establishes the basic framework of the information-based war form theory, which is divided into three parts. First, it explains the basic elements of war forms and the indicators of the transformation of contemporary war forms. Second, it comprehensively discusses the structure and nature of the information-based war form elements, such as the digital implications of information platforms, the dynamic mechanism of information structural force, the "virtual-reality" dual combat space, and the "control-offense-defense" three-dimensional military movement. Third, it elaborates on the measures taken by our armed forces to respond to the new military revolution in the world and the transformation of war forms, proposing the strategic concept of "generation leapfrogging" and anchoring the strategic goal of leapfrogging military development in the "mesoscopic military revolution." This book is the latest achievement of our armed forces in fundamental, original, and systematic research on information-based warfare. The author, from a philosophical perspective, comprehensively applies philosophy, military science, international relations, and other disciplines to present readers with a picture of the basic war forms in the information age. This book provides a thinking tool for understanding the essential characteristics of information-based warfare and for innovating theories of information-based warfare and operations, making it worth reading for all commanders and staff, especially senior commanders and individuals from various sectors who are concerned about the new military revolution in the world.