With the formation of a strategic new arms information support force by the People's Liberation Army, countless military fans were excited, but the Americans felt a huge threat. U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has publicly stated that China is building an army aimed at defeating the United States. As a major move of the PLA's military reform, the information support force will play a mainstay role in the construction and application of the people's army's overall network information system in the future, and is of great significance for promoting the high-quality development of our army and winning modern wars.
As the saying goes, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers. The reason why the top level of the US military is so concerned and worried about the construction of new arms of the PLA is because in the field of informationized warfare, the US military was originally the dominant one, so it is naturally afraid of the rise of the PLA. It can be said that as the world's most powerful military, the US military's informationized operations have long formed a pattern of "highly technological, multi-domain integration, and joint operations," and there is no need to say more about its combat effectiveness and scientific and technological content. Thanks to the Pentagon and the White House's investment in construction for many years, the US military's information warfare system has been supported by a large number of networks, communications, satellites, and unmanned systems. It can be said that the US military is at the forefront of the world in information collection, transmission, and processing applications.
First of all, as far as the basic communications network is concerned, the communications network of the US military's informationized combat units is high-speed and secure, consisting of satellite, wireless communications, optical fiber communications, and other terminals, and a unified whole has been formed among the US military's command headquarters and combat units at all levels. Second, in terms of network operations, the US military can efficiently collect and sort out intelligence, whether it is attacking or defending against maritime reconnaissance, and can achieve combat operations in complex environments through a variety of means. Especially in the field of electronic warfare, from electromagnetic interference to radar countermeasures, the US military has mastered electronic warfare technology to perfection. As early as the Gulf War that broke out in the 20 th century, the US military taught the whole world a lesson.
It is precisely with the support of a powerful information support and support system that the US military has long formed a coordinated leadership and command system for multi-domain integrated operations. This combat system of the US military covers five combat areas: land, sea, air, space, and electromagnetic. Among them, the US military's joint operations command is responsible for unified command, the joint operations center is responsible for coordinating combat operations, and the joint operations information system realizes information sharing and integration, and units at all levels strictly implement the joint operations planning and command process, thereby ensuring coordinated operations and unified command in specific military operations.
It is precisely because of the US military as an example that the people's army has grown and strengthened through continuous learning and innovation. In the context of informationized operations, the PLA's information support forces will mainly undertake the three major tasks of "unblocking information links, integrating information resources, and strengthening information protection," which is also a key prerequisite for ensuring systematic operations. After this new branch of the PLA is integrated into the PLA's all-army joint operations system, it will truly promote the comprehensive improvement of the PLA's combat capability.
In particular, from the perspective of "system integration and global support", the PLA has set up a strategic new arms information support force to make the system formation of the services and arms more scientific and perfect, which is also in line with the laws and principles of the people's army's military reform. As everyone knows. Since the Nanchang Uprising, the people's army has continued to grow and develop, and it is no longer a single army branch of the year, but is based on the synthesis of various services and arms, and has been constantly upgraded and evolved. In the early years, in addition to the three basic branches of the navy, land, and air force, the PLA also successively established the public security force, the air defense force, the cavalry, the railway corps, and other branches of the armed forces. In accordance with the needs of national defense construction and the development of the times, many branches of the armed forces have been abolished, and new services and arms such as the Rocket Force have been established.
After this military reform, the number of the strategic support force, which had been established for eight years, was officially abolished, and the new four major arms are the military space force, the cyberspace force, the joint logistics support force, and the information support force, and these four major arms and the four major branches of the army, air force, navy, and rocket force constitute the new structure of the PLA, which is also an inevitable choice to conform to the development of the times. Although each branch of the military has its own duties, they have a common goal, that is, to build an impregnable Great Wall of Steel in the process of continuous growth and evolution!