Science of Military Strategy - 2020

Chapter 15 - Overseas Use of Military Forces

Section 1 The Strategic Significance of the Overseas use of Military Power
Section 2 The Main Features of the Overseas Use of Military Power 
Section 3 The Strategic Guidance for the Overseas Use of Military Power

The overseas use of military power generally includes both non-war military operations and war operations.
China implements a peaceful foreign policy and a defensive national defense policy. It has always
advocated the settlement of disputes between countries through peaceful means and opposed the frequent
use of force. Therefore, the overseas use of our military power is mainly non-war use. The basic operation
patterns include: international peacekeeping, international rescue, maritime escort, overseas evacuation,
international joint military exercises and joint training, naval and air strategic cruises, open sea training,
military assistance, warship visits, international counter-terrorism, etc. Today's world is facing
unprecedented changes. Our country is developing rapidly from large to strong, and overseas interests are
expanding. The military must resolutely fulfill the mission and tasks of the new era, and further strengthen
the planning and guidance of the overseas use of military forces, and contribute to safeguarding the
country's overseas interests and promoting regional stability and the maintenance of world peace.

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Chapter 14 - Non-War Military Operations

Section 1 Main styles of Non-war Military Operations 
Section 2 Basic Characteristics of Non-war Military Operations 
Section 3 Strategic Guidance for Non-war Military Operations 

Non-war military operations refer to non-war military operations carried out by a country or political group to
achieve a certain political goal, using military force, using non-violent or limited violent means. Under the
conditions of the new era, with the expansion of national interests and the rise of non-traditional security
threats, the role of non-war military operations has become increasingly prominent, and has become an
important method of national military force use and an effective means to maintain national security and
development.

Performing non-war military missions is an inevitable requirement for the military to perform its duties and
missions and an important way to enhance its combat capabilities. Its status is prominent in the following
aspects: first, it can play an important role in maintaining national stability. Natural disasters and public
health incidents are increasing and destructive. Various emergencies occur frequently and have great
psychological shock. The threat of terrorism is serious and political influence is great, which will have a
serious impact on economic construction and even social stability. Non-war military operations such as
counter-terrorism operations, stability maintenance operations, rescue and disaster relief, and security and
vigilance can ensure rapid response, control the situation, reduce losses, and restore stability. Second, it
can play a unique role in deterring war. The mediation and monitoring of hostile parties in international
peacekeeping operations can avoid or reduce the possibility of conflicts and wars. Border containment
operations can effectively control the border situation, prevent escalation, reduce conflicts, and avoid wars.
The third is to deepen international security cooperation. Non-war military operations such as international
rescue and escort are all of a military cooperation nature, which plays an important role in establishing an
international image, increasing mutual trust, and strengthening friendly relations with relevant countries.
Therefore, non-war military operations are an important means of national diplomacy and an effective tool
for strengthening international cooperation.

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Chapter 13 - Operational Guidance

Section 1 Basic Operational Thoughts
Section 2 Operational Guiding Principles
Section 3 Art of Operational Guidance

Operational guidance is a principled instruction and guidance for the planning and implementation of
operations. It is an integral part of strategic guidance and runs through the entire process of war planning
and implementation. Correct operational guidance is an important prerequisite for ensuring victory in the
war. Operational guidance of information-based local wars has the characteristics of many targets, wide
areas, complex planning content, and difficult command and control.

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Chapter 12 - Battle Situation Control

Section 1 Definitions and Characteristics of Battle Situation Control
Section 2 Principles of Battle Situation Control 
Section 3 Controlling the Opening of the War 
Section 4 Controlling the Development of Battle Situations
Section 5 Controlling the End of War

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Chapter 11 - War Operation

As the main link and concentrated embodiment of war implementation, war action is very rich in content.
War action styles mainly include: strategic reconnaissance and strategic early warning, strategic projection
and strategic deployment, strategic assault, strategic counter-air attack, strategic blockade, border defense,
island operations, maritime mobile operations, cyber electromagnetic space warfare, and opinion and legal
struggles and psychological offense and defense, etc.

Section 1 Strategic Reconnaissance and Strategic Early Warning 
Section 2 Strategic Projection and Strategic Deployment 
Section 3 Strategic Assault Section 
Section 4 Strategic Counter Air Attack 
Section 5 Strategic Blockade Section 
Section 6 Border Defense 
Section 7 Island Operations 
Section 8 Sea Mobile Operations 
Section 9 Cyber Electromagnetic Space Warfare 
Section 10 Public Opinion Jurisprudence Struggle and Psychological
Offense and Defense

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Chapter 10 - War Planning 

Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must focus on innovating war and combat planning, closely follow the evolution
of war patterns and combat methods, closely follow combat tasks, combat opponents, and combat
environments, and vigorously promote the style of research on combat issues." War planning is about the
war to be implemented. Overall planning and organization. The process of war planning is a process in
which the strategic director transforms the political objectives into military objectives based on the
determination of the political objectives of the war, and then carries out the overall design and pre-planning
of the war around the objectives. Correct war planning is the basic guarantee for winning the war.

The planning of information-based local wars, from the perspective of stages, includes planning the start of
the war, the course of the war, and the end of the war; from the content point of view, it mainly involves
grasping the characteristics of the war, making war decisions, designing war operations, constructing
strategic deployments, and organizing strategies coordination, overall planning of strategic guarantees,
implementation of war mobilization, planning of political work, etc. The content of war planning should be the
main body, and its related elements should be organically integrated in the planning of each stage of the war
and the control of the whole battle situation.

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Chapter 10 - War Planning 

Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must focus on innovating war and combat planning, closely follow the evolution
of war patterns and combat methods, closely follow combat tasks, combat opponents, and combat
environments, and vigorously promote the style of research on combat issues." War planning is about the
war to be implemented. Overall planning and organization. The process of war planning is a process in
which the strategic director transforms the political objectives into military objectives based on the
determination of the political objectives of the war, and then carries out the overall design and pre-planning
of the war around the objectives. Correct war planning is the basic guarantee for winning the war.

The planning of information-based local wars, from the perspective of stages, includes planning the start of
the war, the course of the war, and the end of the war; from the content point of view, it mainly involves
grasping the characteristics of the war, making war decisions, designing war operations, constructing
strategic deployments, and organizing strategies coordination, overall planning of strategic guarantees,
implementation of war mobilization, planning of political work, etc. The content of war planning should be the
main body, and its related elements should be organically integrated in the planning of each stage of the war
and the control of the whole battle situation.

Chapter 9 - Military Conflict in New Domains - PART 2

Section 4 Military Conflict in the Polar Domain
Section 5 Military Conflict in the Biological Domain 
Section 6 Military Conflict in the Intelligence Domain

Military conflicts in the new domains are various military activities conducted in the space, network, deep
sea, polar regions, biology, intelligence, etc., domains in order to maintain national security. The new
domains are not only an important domain of military conflict, but also an integral part of international
political struggle, which has an important influence on the country's politics and diplomacy. Therefore, all
countries in the world, especially the big countries, are paying close attention to and planning military
conflicts in new areas.

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Chapter 9 - Military Conflict in New Domains

Section 1 Military Conflict in Space 
Section 2 Military Conflict in Cyberspace 
Section 3 Military Conflict in the Deep-Sea Domain 

Military conflicts in the new domains are various military activities conducted in the space, network, deep
sea, polar regions, biology, intelligence, etc., domains in order to maintain national security. The new
domains are not only an important domain of military conflict, but also an integral part of international
political struggle, which has an important influence on the country's politics and diplomacy. Therefore, all
countries in the world, especially the big countries, are paying close attention to and planning military
conflicts in new areas.

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Chapter 8 - Strategic Deterrence
Section 1 Basic Concepts of Strategic Deterrence 
Section 2 China’s Strategic Deterrence Thought 
Section 3 Methods of Strategic Deterrence 
Section 4 Guidance of Strategic Deterrence

Strategic deterrence is an important content of military strategic planning and guidance, and an effective
means to maintain national security and development. With the extensive use of high-tech in the military
field and the development and change of the international strategic situation, the role of strategic deterrence
has become increasingly prominent. Under the conditions of the new era, it is necessary to use the flexible
use of strategic deterrence methods to create a favorable strategic situation to contain armed conflicts and
wars, delay the outbreak of wars, stop the escalation and expansion of wars, avoid, or reduce war damage,
and maintain the ever-expanding national security and development interests.

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