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Education for all in national defence is an important strategic issue for national defence and army-building, as well as a long-term and practical strategic pre-emptive measure. The new era of national defence education will be carried out with a view to a new “three-step” strategy for the modernization of the defence and military forces, with full recognition of the new characteristics of informed and intelligent warfare and the study and refinement of new requirements to highlight the times. On this basis, we have worked together to strengthen the educational response and increase the responsiveness and effectiveness of national defence education for all in the new era。
1. Fully understand the new features of informed and intelligent warfare
The accelerated development of the productivity of human society has contributed to the accelerated evolution of the pattern of war. Science and technology, as the first productivity factor, has driven human society from the steam age and the electrical age to the information age. “when technological progress can be and has already been used for military purposes, it is almost mandatory, and often contrary to the will of the commander, to bring about changes in the modus operandi and even changes.” the gulf war opened the way to an information war. Since then, the form of warfare has evolved and evolved in the direction of informatization, which has become the dominant form of warfare. In the russian-ukrainian conflict, cyberstereometric, unmanned and intelligent weapons, etc., have been put into battle, war patterns have been characterized by high-dimensional warfare and algorithmic cognitive warfare, with digital battlefield perceptions and cognitive power playing an important role, and information-intelligence wars have emerged to dominate the current and future war patterns for some time。
The mode of action of an ict-intelligence war is mainly networked, unmanned, intelligent, a “think war” based on self-adaptation, improvisation, real-time decision-making, and will also be the basic method of command of an ict-intelligence war, and the systemic confrontation at the centre of calculations will become the norm. In information-smart warfare, the operational rhythm will be faster and more instantaneous, reflected in instant multidimensional, high-intensity intellectual warfare. “invisible” elements, such as data, information, networks, algorithms, software codes, electromagnetic spectrums, will be the basis and assurance for ensuring that informed and intelligent warfare takes place and that the operational force is fully operational. Intelligence wars are becoming more difficult for one's own people, more complex for the other, more time-sensitive and less time-sensitive, and more confusing for war。
The determining factor for the success of war is that the human being is not the object, and the subject of informed and intelligent warfare remains the human being. An information-smart war will be geographically diverse and time-limited, strategic planning, strategic deployments and the creation of battlefields will form a whole, and war will take place in all areas where the enemy can be fought, which will also determine the need for a highly integrated quality of combatants. In the context of information-smart warfare, the system of combat equipment is more complex and military expertise will become more sophisticated. This has led to the intellectualization of information, which requires good command at all levels, skilled in strategy, battles and tactics, a great deal more skilled in the arts, and a much higher level of combined skills, knowledge, etc。
2. New requirements for education in national defence
In response to the new characteristics of the information-smart war, the new requirements for education in national defence should be examined. It is necessary not only to further deepen the marxist concept of war education, but also to inherit and promote the idea of people's war, to innovate the theory of people's war, to raise awareness of national defence and to improve the quality of national defence. The search for the right hand will lead to and deepen national defence education。
War is a product of class society. Marxism believes that only a just war can promote the survival and development of humankind, and that it can reflect the value of the pursuit that humanity itself carries for the benefit of the majority. A just war is a war of progress and a war to preserve peace against aggression. The marxist view of war is the theoretical basis for our diagnosis of the theme of the times and the nature of war. It is also a dynamic system of modern and open development. The new era of national defence education will further deepen marxist war-view education to inform the entire population of the origins of war, the nature and purpose of war, the development of war, the relationship between war and politics, the justice and injustice of war, among others, so as to establish a scientific concept of war and a proper understanding of the importance, necessity and urgency of strengthening national defence。
The theory of people's wars is constantly enriched by the exploration of the idea of people's wars in the context of informed and intelligent warfare. The idea of a people's war was the product of the old revolutionary, represented by mao zedong, who had brought to fruition the military doctrine of the marxist military doctrine, which was physically integrated with the chinese revolution. Guided by this idea, the chinese people have achieved great victories, such as the war against japan, the war of liberation and the war against the united states of america and the dprk. Intelligent wars constantly change the way they are fought, the way they are directed and the way they are perceived, and new demands are placed on the organization of the forces of war, especially the capacity to provide security for reserve military forces. For example, the massive use of unmanned and intelligent weapons and the discovery that strikes become the norm have placed particular emphasis on increasing the instant sense and cognitive capacity of digital battlefields, which has been reflected in the russian-ukrainian conflict. The acquisition of these capabilities has once again demonstrated the enormous potential of people's wars and the important role that technologies such as networks play in the information-smart war, combined with people. The existence of one-sided discourses such as “obsolete” “no-use” “irrelevance” of varying degrees of people's wars in society requires that we fully understand informed and intelligent wars and explore the use of people's wars. President xi said that no matter how the situation developed, the law of people's war could never be lost. The party's 20 major reports also highlighted the study of the patterns of informed and intelligent warfare, innovative military strategic guidance and the development of people's war strategies. In the new era, the scientific understanding of the “change” and “change” of people's wars provides strategic thinking guidance for informed and intelligent wars。
The information-smart war imposes new demands on the political mindset, intellectual literacy, psychological qualities, will to fight, physical abilities, etc. Of all war participants. In the years of the revolutionary war, “uncultured armies are stupid armies”. In the context of information-intelligence warfare, an army that is not highly integrated remains a stupid army, is still not well adapted to a rapidly changing war environment and is not well equipped to carry out the combat tasks entrusted to it. In the new era, national defence education should be promoted and deepened in higher education. Through the improvement and enhancement of defence education in the new age colleges, on the one hand, it will be better targeted at the intellectually informed war, which will help to change the structure of the army, improve the overall quality of its personnel and develop new types of combat personnel, and, on the other hand, it will be an ambitious system of social practice that will provide a strong impetus and deepening of national defence education for all once a large number of students with good standards of defence education enter society. Deepening the defence education of the new age universities will create an integrated pool of personnel to mobilize and build reserves for the strengthening of defence, and will create a strong “living pool” “reserve” for winning the intellectually informed war and the future people's war. The strengthening of defence education in the new era of higher education can be both a long-lasting mechanism for the development of “living for a source of energy” and a half-wielding effect of the “student day”。
3. Improving the targeted effectiveness of national defence education for all
In response to the new requirements for national defence education in the new era, there are macro-level guidelines, theoretical innovations and mechanisms to improve the targeted effectiveness of national defence education. A firm political conviction, with good red resources, continues to entrench the spirit of war. The new demands of information-smart warfare on the power of war are combined with the idea of a new era of people's war. A combination of measures has been put in place to establish a viable mechanism for defence education。
At a time when the world is going through a century without major changes, my country is faced with a complex and fluid security and development environment in which the new era of national defence education for all should be firmly rooted in a firm sense of the spirit of war. Chairman xi stressed the need for unwavering adherence to the absolute leadership of the party in the army. This is the foundation of the people's army and the spirit of its establishment. Through the “four historys” of learning education, a broad range of cadres will be made aware that our national defence is national defence under the communist party of china (cpc) and that our army is the people's army under the communist party of china (cpc), that the history of the party's command of guns is inexorable and correct, and that a wide range of practical defence education activities will be carried out with red resources, in conjunction with such important days as major commemorative days, and that the theoretical, value-based and ideological identity of the cadres in general will be strengthened and that the education of the military spirits will be made more conscious。
Chairman xi noted that the communist party of china had insisted that the soldiers were the key to victory. People's wars remain the way to triumph in the face of intellectually informed wars. Strengthen the concept of “peaceful, front-to-back, civil-military” defence education to enhance the operational and deterrent capacity of national defence in general. The establishment of the concept of “one peace” will effectively achieve the capacity to sustain peace and to rapidly and efficiently mobilize war in time of war. The concept of “back-to-back” will give full effect to the important role of people in the fight against information, given the multi-dimensional and global nature of informed and intelligent warfare. The development of the concept of “civil-military integration” will provide a strong support for the security of high-intensity manpower and material resources in the context of information-intelligence warfare, particularly through efficient support for networks, information and intelligence. Using the new age of the theory of people's war as a guide to national defence education, the information and intellectual power of millions of people will be developed, nurtured and mobilized to create a strong defence operational and deterrent capacity。
The information-smart war, as a current form of war, also places greater demands on education in national defence. Integrated education and training mechanisms are to be established, from primary school to university, to develop a well-organized and well-developed school defence education system and to enhance the sustainability of national defence education for all. At the same time, with the aim of developing the skills needed for the information-intelligence war, the capacity of the defence reserve is being strengthened, with a view to strengthening the capacity of the community to develop and store the skills needed for the training of professionals, and to consolidating the relevant technical expertise into the reserve force, thereby creating a new situation in which the defence reserve team is building a balanced and sustainable development。
(students: wei, zhang hongmei, professor, maxianist college, university of zhang, one of the former general equipment researchers) researcher, academy of military sciences institute for the political work of the army)
