Satan in Transformation (New Military Revolution: A Comprehensive Perspective)

Author: Lin Xiao
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: "The Transforming Satan: Perspectives on the New Military Revolution" contains the following content: In the field of global military, the New Military Revolution is sweeping with fierce intensity, creating monumental waves. Decades of accumulated military technology have now turned into an all-encompassing trend, opening a new chapter in military transformation. On the stage of military competition, major powers each showcase their unique strengths and lead the way. However, war is the of human peace. When Pandora's box is opened, what will it bring to humanity? The subversion of traditional military – the information technology-triggered New Military Revolution. The industrial era has ended, and the information age has begun. A new military philosophy, new operational methods, and new weaponry have emerged. Information warfare – automated command systems, information-based combat platforms, and joint operations of air, sea, land, and even space armies. Its battlefield extends even into outer space. "Satan" is a legendary demon, but the real "Satan" refers to the Soviet Union's P-36M YTTX missile, known as the Satan in reality. Its power is the most formidable in the world today. This missile can carry an 8.8-ton warhead into space, whereas the largest warhead the U.S. can transport is only 4.6 tons. The missile has 10 warheads, capable of striking anywhere in the world. The power of these 10 warheads is hundreds of times greater than the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All of humanity's current weapons, whether conventional or unconventional, regardless of the intentions of their owners, could become the destroyer of human society, the Satan of human civilization!
Advancements in technology are advancing at an unprecedented pace. Today, humanity fully enjoys the comforts brought by technological development, but the more technology advances, the more fragile human society seems to become. In 2001, Stephen Hawking, author of "A Brief History of Time," said: "Humanity might be extinct in 1,000 years." In fact, why wait a thousand years? If humanity cannot correctly understand and control itself, if it cannot, as Tolstoy said, shed its animalistic nature and move toward reason, then destruction may be just around the corner! Humanity seems to have no time to think about how to promote technological progress while ensuring the health, happiness, and safety of future generations. Instead, as technology advances, the "Satan" in human life—war—its destructive power to human civilization—keeps escalating.
The curtain has been lifted on the world's New Military Revolution, which has become a symbol of the war machine and war theory of the information age, distinct from the industrial era. The New Military Revolution has also become the key for ambitious politicians and hegemonists to open the future, a tool for them to maintain the initiative and avoid passivity in future high-tech wars. In the struggle between preparing for and preventing killing, all nations are extremely focused on the development opportunities the New Military Revolution brings to their own countries, rushing to implement it.
Humanity's history of self-destruction has been too long, and the bloodshed has been enough. Should it flow again? As an ordinary person, I have no power to stop anything from happening. The only thing I can do is inform the world, let people understand the New Military Revolution, understand its every aspect. Only by understanding can we judge, and only by understanding can we act.