Asymmetry in combat power. Emphasis is placed on concentrating elite weapons to create an overwhelming opponent's superiority in troops, weapons, technology, and psychology. There are two main trends: one is the development from the concentration of national forces to the concentration of international forces. Second, the armed services and arms have joined forces to form a powerful force and carry out asymmetric operations. By implementing a rational combination of various services and arms, the strength of the strength will be increased in order to achieve an asymmetrical effect with a huge disparity in strength.

Technically asymmetrical. With the rapid development of modern information technology and the extensive use of precision-guided weapons, electronic warfare weapons, and stealth weapons on the battlefield, several major military powers in the world are actively developing high-tech weapons and equipment in an effort to make use of their own high and new technologies to form an overwhelming advantage over the enemy. In the Kosovo War, the elite forces of the US Air Force were exhausted, including the B-2 stealth bomber, which had never appeared before, in an effort to achieve the largest technological gap.

Attacking the enemy with one's own strengths and attacking the enemy's weaknesses has always been a very important operational criterion. An important way of asymmetric warfare is to adopt asymmetric means, that is, to force the enemy to engage without planning and without capability. Computer simulation experiments have shown that striking with different weapons systems is more effective than striking with the same weapons. For example, the ratio of damage to damage of helicopter gunships to tanks is 1:18, while the ratio of tanks to tanks is 1:1.

However, from another perspective, in an asymmetric relationship, both parties are asymmetrical to each other. In an operation, both sides will actively strive for an asymmetric relationship that is beneficial to themselves, but it is only that the high-tech side is prone to use high-tech to carry out asymmetric warfare. Therefore, asymmetric warfare is a kind of operational idea. It has little to do with the level of technology. The side with superior technology can rely on its own technology to conduct asymmetric warfare with technical inferiority, and the side with inferior technology can also respond to the battle with inferior technology.

As far as the guiding ideology of combat is concerned, the idea of asymmetric warfare has long existed.

The history of warfare of the great powers of the North is the history of opposing an enemy with inferior equipment. Fighting in the encirclement and suppression. In the Long March, the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation, and the Northern Stick War, they won victory after victory with flexible tactics and large-scale movement warfare.

"Concentrating superior forces on local battlefields to annihilate enemy forces" is precisely the concrete embodiment of this thinking. And "the enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy is stationed and disturbs me." When the enemy is tired, we will fight, and when the enemy retreats, we will pursue" has brought into full play the asymmetrical tactics of opposing the weak against the strong.

The advantages of asymmetric warfare are that it is conducive to giving play to technological superiority, achieving maximum results at the lowest cost, and achieving the suddenness of the battle. It is conducive to quick solutions.

Comparatively speaking, it is more favorable to the party that has a technological advantage. The US military has a large amount of high-tech equipment that is difficult for other military forces to match, and this equipment not only enables the US military to take the initiative in a war and gain a head over the enemy, but also makes it easier for the US military to give play to its operational superiority in asymmetric strikes.

Furthermore. Asymmetric warfare itself is emphasized. Focus your combat superiority on the weaknesses of the enemy's different branches of the military.

Asymmetric warfare emphasizes giving full play to the unique equipment and combat characteristics and combat effectiveness advantages of one's own units to strike at the weaknesses of different units of the enemy.

The main manifestations are:1. Flexibly choose the direction of the assault -- select the weak point where the enemy's protection capability is the weakest and it is most difficult to make a quick response to strike at the enemy. 2。 Skillful use of strike force - select the enemy's forces and weapons that are most difficult to counterattack or to respond effectively from the different types of troops and weapons that you have. 3。 Adopt a new tactical method of combat -- use a different style of combat and a method of combat that is different from the past or that the enemy army is unfamiliar with, so that it is impossible to understand the laws of its own operations.

Asymmetric warfare emphasizes the use of means and methods of warfare that are difficult for the enemy to deal with, and to operate at times and directions that are difficult for the enemy to predict. While killing and injuring the enemy's combat forces, this kind of blow can also produce great shock and pressure on the enemy's psychology. The enemy is in chaos and panic. It can maximize the tactical suddenness of the campaign.

The attacker can attack completely ignoring the defender's traditional form of combat. This avoids a stalemate between the two sides over the use of similar forces. For example, in the 1991 Gulf War, the multinational forces used super-large-scale air strikes to cross the Saddam line of defense, and in the 2003 Iraq War, the US military successfully achieved the goal of a quick victory based on the leapfrog operation of the airborne troops and mechanized infantry divisions.

With the development of the theory of asymmetric warfare and the deepening of research, contemporary asymmetric warfare has obvious characteristics of knowledge-based warfare.

Information warfare has become the main content of asymmetric warfare. Ability to obtain accurate intelligence. It has always been a prerequisite for the success of asymmetric warfare. The US military even pointed out that it is impossible to conduct asymmetric warfare without intelligence superiority.

Asymmetric warfare has also greatly increased the degree of multidimensionality of the battlefield. Asymmetrical warfare places greater emphasis on the organic combination of the services. More attention should be paid to the effectiveness of the system in combat operations, which will form an organic whole of various strike forces such as air, air, sea, and land, and carry out all-round strikes on combat targets.

During the Kosovo war, more than 50 reconnaissance satellites were constantly collecting intelligence, cruisers and submarines at sea launched cruise missiles, bombers with absolute superiority in the air coordinated operations, and electronic warfare systems were constantly carrying out electronic jamming against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The implementation of asymmetric warfare has greatly enhanced the degree of multidimensionality of the battlefield.

The Northern Stick War and the Monkey War made people realize that even the side with a great advantage in technology and power cannot avoid losses in asymmetric warfare, because both sides of the war have the opportunity to strike first or strike later. Asymmetrical warfare can use long-range raids and jump strikes to inflict heavy damage on the opponent without contacting it, and to minimize combat risk and collateral damage. It is precisely because of the "non-contact" nature of asymmetric warfare that it is possible to reduce the risk of casualties and equipment losses in war to zero, so it is favored by all countries in the world, especially military powers.

From the examples of asymmetric warfare in the wars that have been fought in the world, we can draw certain commonalities.

In the use of force, attention should be paid to the concentrated use of combat forces, and the "asymmetry of forces" should be achieved to force the weak. By rapidly concentrating and skillfully using combat forces and actively creating a favorable combat situation for carrying out asymmetric operations against the enemy, we can bring into full play the uniqueness of the various combat forces of the joint forces and win victories.

The superiority of weapons and equipment, through technological asymmetry, realizes the domination of high and low. The asymmetric relationship between weapons and equipment systems is the material basis for the implementation of asymmetric operations. In modern times, this kind of asymmetric relationship mainly refers to poor technology, so striving to increase the asymmetric coefficient between the weapons systems of the two sides has become the basic idea for the two sides to achieve asymmetric warfare.

The right to information is to achieve active control and passivity through "information asymmetry". Information is one of the important factors that constitute combat effectiveness and is a multiplier of combat effectiveness, while successful asymmetric operations rely on the ability to obtain decisive intelligence quickly and accurately. The establishment of battlefield information superiority is a necessary condition for the implementation of asymmetric warfare. (To be continued.) )