Sun Tzu's actual combat operation of the Art of WarδΈ¨ Author: Liu Wenxin.
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Many people say that the US military attaches great importance to technology and possesses advanced technology, but it is obviously deficient in the art of war.
Unrestricted Warfare argues:
Compared to the advanced technology it possesses, the US military lags significantly behind in tactics and is not good at seizing the opportunities offered by new technologies for new tactics.The author's basis is:
In addition to the effective use of advanced technology, we do not see how far the military thinking of the Americans in this war (referring to the Gulf War) is far from other countries, at least not more than the gap between them in terms of equipment.I don't think the performance of the U.S. military shows that command technology is more important than command art, but from the perspective of the "Art of War" thought, the two should be a complementary relationship.
If you define the relationship between the two, I think it should be:
Technology is the foundation of artistic playArt is a means of using the power of technology efficiently
In "The Way of the Commander's Victory", it is proposed:
My understanding of how clever generals win starts with understanding why mediocre generals are invincible.The reason why I say this is that as the author of the commander of the US Army's war history squad, I have personally experienced how on the Korean battlefield, how the mediocre generals of the US Army used their firepower superiority to bomb and disappear the vegetation on a hill, but did not cause much damage to the volunteers, but was concentrated by the volunteers on the way to attack, bringing a large number of joint forces.
Therefore, the author's understanding of the Art of War in the book focuses on "avoiding the real and attacking the false", which shows that they recognized the importance of the art of command in the post-war summary.
In essence, in the Art of War, the operation of each link contains the relationship between command technology and command art, and we will make a brief combing for your reference.
1. Beginning of the plan
"Five things and seven strategies" is a technique for evaluating and calculating the characteristics of the combat strength of the other side and comparing the combat strength superiority of the other side and us, so as to give full play to our own superiority on the battlefield, avoid the enemy's superiority, and create conditions for the development of our own superiority and destroy the conditions for the enemy's superiority to be exerted.
Accurately assessing superiority is a technical task that requires both intelligence information and insight to directly test the ability of the general.
Of course, if you think that the beginning of "The Art of War" is to evaluate whether this battle can be fought through "five things and seven strategies", it will be abolished directly, and it is recommended not to read it further, even if it is basically a misunderstanding.
"Four tricks and eight powers" are two operations of art, the change of profit and profit, focusing on how to create the conditions for giving full play to the enemy's advantages and the change of the enemy.
2. Combat
The focus of the "combat chapter" is to "take food from the country and feed the enemy", and attach importance to pre-war standard preparation and wartime consumption replenishment.
Pre-war standard preparation is a technical activity, first of all, it is necessary to estimate the combat cycle (long and speed are related to the estimation of the combat cycle, rather than a quick battle), and then complete the pre-war standard preparation according to the estimated combat cycle, and the eight items of pre-war standard preparation provided in the text of Sun Tzu's Art of War are just a framework.
The technical level is mainly for the risk assessment of the combat space, while the mode of consumption replenishment belongs to the artistic level, and the deployment and implementation of logistics supply are carried out according to the characteristics of the space and the characteristics of the enemy.
3. Plotting to attack
The goal setting of "all" and "breaking" or "yielding without a fight," as well as the country, army, brigade, soldier, and army within the scope of the target, all belong to the category of command art, and it requires the commander to grasp the overall situation, just as "small Huaihai" has been changed to "big Huaihai."
The comparison of the forces and combat strength of the two sides, as well as the feasibility assessment of the goal of "knowing that there are five victories", "double the enemy battle", and "avoiding less escape", as well as the feasibility assessment of the goal of "knowing that there are five", belong to the technical category, and it is necessary to implement each element and index solidly to draw correct conclusions.
4. Military shape and troop strength
The deployment of troops in the form of a military is a technology, and it requires a full understanding of the terrain, the characteristics of the combat strength of each branch of the armed forces, the conditions for exerting combat strength, and other data, so as to complete the deployment of offensive operations or defensive operations based on operational intentions.
The attraction of regular soldiers, the blow of strange troops, and the mobilization of enemy forces require the generals to accurately grasp the situation on the battlefield and the battlefield.
5. Military contention
The selection of the mode of movement of troops on the battlefield requires the mastery of the marching distance, speed, and environment to belong to the category of technology, while the combination and transformation of the mode of movement of battlefield forces belongs to the category of art.
That is to say, the risk assessment and selection of battlefield movement modes of "raising an army and competing for profits, entrusting the army and striving for profits, and donating a lot of money", "fighting for profits for 100 miles", "competing for profits for 50 miles" and "competing for profits for 30 miles" are technologies; "The soldier is established by deception, moved by profit, and changed by division and combination", "its speed is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, the invasion is like fire, it is not moving like a mountain, it is difficult to know like a yin, and it moves like a thunderstorm" is art.
We are familiar with Sun Bin's "reduction of the focus" operation of the Battle of Maling, on the surface of the "reduction of the focus" is art, but behind it is necessary to accurately grasp the speed and distance of the march of the two sides, which is technology.
6. Fiction and reality
In our system, the first half of the virtual and real chapters corresponds to the military situation chapter, which uses odd to mobilize the enemy's forces and create weak links in its defense system, of which the main highlight is the artistic component.
The second half corresponds to the deployment of troops in the military formation, detects the weak links in the enemy's defense system, and needs to "win" the enemy's system from the perspective of man-land balance, focusing on technology.
7. Nine changes
The first half of the site focuses on adjusting its own deployment due to changes in the enemy's deployment, and the lower part focuses on adjusting its own roles and tasks due to the enemy's abnormal positive movements. The adjustment of deployment focuses on technology, and it is necessary to monitor the direction and position of the enemy's troop movements; The adjustment of Qizheng's movement focuses on art, and it is necessary to predict the enemy's movements and tasks according to the enemy.
8. March
The battlefield selection of the army, corresponding to the deployment of troops, requires accurate data and grasp of the terrain, terrain, and the use of geographical advantages, which is reflected in more technical components.
Judging the true intention of the enemy from the subtle signs of the enemy, corresponding to the development of Qizheng troops, it is necessary to judge the role and task of each part from the obvious characteristics of the enemy's actions, which is more reflected in the artistic level, and the test is the experience and insight of the generals.
9. Topography
The identification and utilization of wartime geographical advantages mainly focus on the technical level, which requires pre-war data detection and wartime on-site reconnaissance.
10, Nine Places
The core of the Nine Lands is "the change of the Nine Lands, the benefit of bending and stretching, and the reason of human feelings", whether it is the strategic use of the benefits of bending and stretching, or the team psychological control of the reason of human feelings, they all focus on the artistic level.
11. Fire Attack
The fire attack emphasizes the use of strategic objects, methods and operation strategies, and the length is short, but it is a detailed work instruction, and it is more inclined to understand it as technology.
12. Use the interval
As a specialized information and intelligence organization, the technical content is mainly reflected in the design of the organizational structure and the information collection model, and we believe that the information collection model of the "use room" is mainly the "five things and seven strategies", which is to do the daily information collection work for the evaluation of the combat effectiveness characteristics and advantages of the generals after receiving the order, and form a big data center, so that the information of each enemy country can be called in time and quickly enter the pre-war assessment of the "five things and seven plans".
The artistic aspect mainly reflects the process of personnel organization and management and information collection.
To sum up, from the combing of the thirteen articles, the operation practice of each link contains two aspects: technology and art, and it is difficult to completely separate the two, and they need to cooperate in order to use power efficiently.