TRADOC 效仿中国系统对抗作战理念为美军训练

Emulating Chinas Systems Confrontation Warfare Concept for U.S.Army TrainingKevin FreeseAfter observing the U.S.militarys performance in the first Gulf War,Chinese military theorists concluded that advanced weapons and equipment have changed the character of armed conflict,leading the Peoples Liberation Army(PLA)to develop an approach to warfare known as systems confrontation.1 Since then,the PLA has refined and evolved its new concept,but the underlying principle remains consistentwarfare as confrontations between integrated,high-technology systems using joint forces across all domains of warfare,rather than engagements between individual units or combined-arms maneuver formations.2 Systems include individual elements joined to form a greater whole,and systems themselves can join to form systems of systems.All systems depend upon critical nodes,which,if disrupted,will render it ineffective.The primary objective of systems confrontation is to paralyze the enemy by disabling what the PLA identifies as the five critical military operational systems:command,firepower-strike,information,intelligence,and support.Rather than focusing on destroying individual units or platforms,systems co