Announcing to the world that the Chinese People's Liberation Army has formed a new type of military arms structure layout, and China's three new independent arms military space force, cyberspace force, information support force and joint logistics support force, constitute China's four major independent arms, plus the army, air force, navy and rocket force.
To sum up, from now on, the PLA will no longer be the three major branches of the army, navy and air force in the traditional sense, but the four major services, plus the four major arms, and become a veritable "eight King Kongs" for defending the country and realizing national rejuvenation!
Since the beginning of the Iraq war, countries around the world have understood the importance of information support, and in order to gain information superiority, it is necessary to make comprehensive use of various information technology means and information-based weapons and equipment. Information equipment is the foundation and "glue" of the equipment system of the US-British coalition forces participating in the Iraq War.
The Russian-Ukrainian war and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have shown that the current form of war is evolving into an information-based war with intelligent characteristics, and in information-based warfare, information has become the "blood" and "nerve" of the combat system, penetrating into all links such as reconnaissance and intelligence, command and control, joint strikes, and comprehensive support. At this stage, information gathering and empowering information is an important winning mechanism, and the integration of information firepower has changed the traditional combat method of simply fighting for scale and firepower, and has greatly improved the speed and accuracy of firepower strikes. Whoever has a strong ability to obtain, process, transmit, utilize, and control information, and who has a high degree of integration of information and firepower, will be able to win the war. The result of information dominance is the precise focus and rapid release of firepower. Therefore, in terms of operational guidance, more emphasis has been placed on seizing information superiority, paralyzing the enemy and controlling the enemy through information attacks and firepower strikes, and exchanging operational victory for the superiority of information-led and "information + firepower" main battle system confrontation.
It can be said that in modern information warfare, information plays a key role in determining victory or defeat on the battlefield, and the main responsibility of information support units lies in providing all-round information support. In the future, whether the army launches a land attack, the navy projects sea power, or the rocket force carries out a missile strike, or the air force launches air supremacy, there will be information support units!
In information-based joint operations, the battlefield has expanded from land, sea, and air to the space of the sky, and the combat domain has extended from the physical domain to the information domain and the cognitive domain, and the entire combat space is multi-dimensional, and the virtual and the real are dependent on and integrated, and the scope of action of the various services and arms has broken through the inherent space limitations, and combat activities are no longer realized by the various services and arms through external coordination and alliance with other services and arms in their own activity space, but have evolved into breaking the boundaries of the services and arms and aggregating the advantages of various domains, and the overall linkage has become the basic form of victory.
Why is the Russian army still being beaten despite successive victories? Why can the seemingly powerful defense system be easily penetrated by drones, unmanned boats, and Hymars rocket artillery? In the final analysis, it is still the Russian army that does not have the right to control information.
The Ukrainian army has received information support from NATO, which has helped Ukraine gain an intelligence advantage to a certain extent, and can accurately locate the position of the Russian army, thus achieving a certain counterattack effect on the battlefield. For example, the Ukrainian air defense forces demonstrated excellent air defense capabilities during a conflict, successfully intercepting a missile attack from the Russian Aerospace Forces, thanks to their advanced intelligence systems and air defense tactics. This is one of the important reasons why the Russia-Ukraine war will eventually turn into a tug-of-war.
The military space forces and the cyberspace forces are really absolutely sophisticated in terms of equipment or technology. The mainland has always called for the peaceful use of space, but there are quite a few space forces of foreign armies, and the space forces of the US military and the space combat group of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces were established at an early stage. Russia and France have long since changed their air forces into aerospace forces, and the militarization of space is actually an irreversible process.
The military space force is equivalent to our eyes and ears, and undertakes the functions of strategic reconnaissance and technical verification, such as the rapid replenishment of the launch of satellites in wartime, the space-based surveillance platform, the strategic reconnaissance platform for near space, and the preliminary observation of the anti-missile system.
In modern society, network security has an important strategic value, the function of the cyberspace force is to vigorously develop network security defense means, build a strong Chinese network border defense, timely detection and defense of network intrusion, defend national network sovereignty and information security is of great significance, cyberspace forces are equivalent to our immune system, to defeat the enemy, fist and leg moves are very important, healthy physique is equally important,
The primary task of the cyberspace forces is to detect and eliminate virus intrusions in a timely manner, including but not limited to intelligence operations, military deception, public opinion offensives, and psychological warfare.
Cyber attacks by foreign hackers and rumors by hostile forces are all areas of cyberspace operations, which also means that the status of cyber security and electronic countermeasures will be further enhanced, and the personnel will also be expanded.
In this sense, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has restructured its four major arms and focused on the three major directions of information support, aerospace and military affairs, and network security, which is undoubtedly ahead of its opponents and has obtained a "killer weapon" to defeat the enemy. It can be said that this military readjustment not only marks that our army has entered the digital information age, but is also a key step for our army to accelerate the modernization of its strategic capability!