In the current mode of war, information is a matter of success or failure.

Of all the Red Police arms, none of them have this ability. Previously, Li Lan had not considered cultivating by herself, but it took too long. Now, all three of the new classes have such abilities. At the same time, it is also full of surprises.

Information warfare is a form of warfare, which refers to the integrated warfare of multiple services and arms waged by the two warring parties under the conditions of nuclear deterrence in the information age, with information-based armies as the main combat, in the land, sea, air, space, and electricity and other full-dimensional spaces, and a large number of conventional weapons and equipment with the level of contemporary high-tech weapons, such as information, new materials, new energy, biological, aerospace, and marine, and adopt corresponding combat methods, a war that is fought in a local area and has a relatively limited scale of ends and means.

In the 21 st century, the rapid development and extensive application of Gao Jishu have promoted the development of weapons and equipment and the evolution of combat methods, promoted the innovation of military theories and the reform of the establishment system, and thus triggered a new military revolution. Information warfare will eventually replace mechanized warfare and become the basic form of future warfare. Information-based warfare refers to wars that take place in the information age, are based on information, and use information-based weaponry as a tool of warfare. Information-based warfare will not change the essence of war, but war instructors must take into account the outcome and consequences of war, and in terms of strategic guidance, they must first pursue how to achieve a strategy of total victory in which "the army surrenders without a fight." The kind of traditional warfare that costs large-scale physical destruction is bound to be greatly constrained and restricted.

Information in information warfare refers to all facts, processes, states, and methods related to the armies, weapons, and operations of both the enemy and the enemy, which are directly or indirectly received and understood by specific systems. In terms of dependence on information, no previous war is comparable to information warfare. In traditional warfare, the two sides pay more attention to the comprehensive contest on the basis of material liliang. For example, mechanized warfare is mainly manifested in a contest of iron and steel, and is an all-out competition in the production capacity of the entire country's machinery and industry. Information warfare does not exclude the contest of material liliang, but more importantly, it is a contest of knowledge, a contest of innovation ability and innovation speed. Knowledge will be the main source of the destructive power of war, and "an ounce of silicon in a computer may produce an effect greater than a ton of uranium".

Firepower, mobility, and information are important contents that constitute the combat capability of the modern military, and information capability has become the primary indicator for judging the level of combat capability. Information capability is manifested in information acquisition, processing, transmission, utilization, and confrontation, and is embodied through the contention and control of information superiority. The essence of information superiority is to prevent the enemy from understanding its own situation while understanding it, and it is a process of dynamic confrontation. It has become a prerequisite for the struggle for air supremacy, sea supremacy, and land control, and has a direct impact on the course and outcome of the entire war. Of course, man will always be the master of information warfare. The planning, organization, and command of war have developed from being completely man-oriented to increasingly relying on the combination of man and machine, and the requirements for the quality of military personnel are also higher. From the competition for information superiority to the eventual transformation into decision-making advantage, it is more about the competition of knowledge and wisdom.

It's not uncommon to hear terms like digitized artillery. What is the Digital Force? It is a highly networked unit (weapon platform), equipment system, individual equipment and command system of the unit. But this is not yet an information-based army. There is also intellectualization. That is, combat and support personnel have new scientific and technological knowledge and are able to proficiently master and operate all kinds of information equipment and systems.

Such a digitized army armed with knowledgeable personnel is a preliminary informationized force.

In the future, Li Lan wants to confront Shijie power, and if there is no information army, the war will also evolve into an asymmetric war, and he is the absolutely weak side.

The first step is to make the weapon system informationized, and the information of the weapon system is what we usually call intelligence. It's a holistic concept. It includes three aspects: hard kill, soft kill and new concept weapons:

Hard Kill - Precision-guided and remote sensing weapons (not traditional weapons) based on information jishu that directly kill, destroy and ensure destruction. Representative weapons: precision-guided bombs such as lasers, military drones, new generation cruise missiles.

Soft kill -- a means of penetrating, jamming, and suppressing the enemy's information system. Designed to disrupt the enemy's sources, destinations, channels, communications and command systems that separate the enemy. Blinding the opponent's precision-guided weapons. Representative weapons: hacking weapons and computer viruses.

New-concept weapons -- brand-new combat units that are different from traditional weapons designed for the purpose of new damage mechanisms and based on high-tech means and information. Representative weapons: Directional high-energy particle weapons. Kinetic energy, electromagnetic weapons, microelectromechanical nanoweapons, and robots.

It has a complete and advanced intelligence command system. It can conduct real-time long-range reconnaissance and early warning, update intelligence in a timely and rapid manner, and make command networked and real-time, and integrated battlefield control. Combat orders can be directed directly to individual combat units. The communication has reached a near-unhindered standard, and it can be positioned on the battlefield of individual units on a full-range weapon platform. The pagoda-style hierarchical command system of the past will no longer exist.

The tactical data link covering land, sea, air, and space power is connected to the individual soldier, and the battlefield information on the combat computer of the individual soldier or grassroots commander is updated in a timely manner, so as to facilitate and clearly update the battlefield tense. Ensure the transmission of direct command in exceptional circumstances. The traditional concept and habit of operational territory are no longer useful. Information operations are seamless, high-dimensional, large-depth, and all-dimensional.

And in order to fully realize this, Li Lan has a long way to go. He doesn't want to develop all his life, and he is still fighting wars in non-mainstream countries, and information development is the way to go.

"Assistant, how long do you think it will take for us to organize and form an information-based army from scratch?" Li Lan couldn't help but ask his assistant.

"If we start from scratch, it is expected that it will take about 30 years to bring all the troops into full informatization."

"Thirty years?" For such a long time, Li Lan was entangled.

"From scratch, that is, thirty years, Commander Weishenme has to ask such a question for such a novice."

"Weishenme said that my question is Xiaobai, won't the army go through informatization in the future?" Li Lan scratched her head and said.

"The existence of the base is inherently highly informatized, and it is much more advanced than the current informatization system and the new system in research and development. Also, has the commander ever seen an information system that has a presence like me? ”

The assistant's answer made Li Lan stunned, he had never thought about the base. However, the assistant's answer made Li Lan suddenly feel a little different. In the past, the assistants were very simple to ask and answer with him, but now that there is such a humane answer, Li Lan is completely messy.

"Assistant, do you have a higher level of intelligence?"

"The opening of the base to the commander's authority allows the commander to master more functions of the base. In order to serve the commander more well, the base will also let the assistant get more knowledge when the commander's authority is upgraded, so that the assistant can continue to be the commander's assistant, help the commander use the functions of the base, and answer questions for the commander. ”

"Delusion, it must be delusion." Listening carefully to the assistant's answer, I don't know weishenme, Li Lan seems to suddenly feel the electronic synthesis sound of the original wooden, and now there is a hint of human touch, a very inexplicable feeling, even he himself doesn't know that weishenme has this feeling.

"It's not an illusion, the assistant is an intelligent program, and having a certain amount of intelligence is a normal category."

"Is that if my authority continues to upgrade in the future, you will become more intelligent, will you have the same thinking and judgment as normal people, and even have feelings?" I don't know Weishenme, Li Lan always has palpitations when she thinks of those future science fiction movies in the United States, those electronic beings that have the ability to think for themselves.

"There is not enough information to answer. However, please rest assured that the intelligent program originates from the base, and the core one is to always be loyal to the commander, and the assistant has no right to disobey any orders from the commander. Moreover, the existence of the commander is the foundation of the existence of the assistant, if the commander does not need the assistant one day, the assistant will disappear completely. ”

"There are no absolutes, who can guarantee what will happen in the future?" Li Lan said thoughtfully.

"This matter is absolutely, according to the information in the database, it is 100% correct."

"Forget it, don't talk about it, who knows what will happen in the future. You just talked about informatization, so how do we build it? Li Lan didn't want to go into this topic in depth, and he was even more interested in the issue of informationization of the troops.

"Among the major items of war that has not been opened up for a long time, there is a data link system, which can transmit the information of the troops to the base in real time, or it can also be established by the base to establish a subsystem and re-establish an integrated command organization, so as to connect various data links and transmit orders and real-time information on the battlefield.

However, the establishment of an information-based force requires soldiers who are proficient in this aspect to maintain and use, and this data link system will only be opened after the commander has a certain scale of sea, land, air and space equipment, and it is useless to establish it in advance. The base is up to the task. ”