The historical experience of a century of victory by a big party and a strong army
For one hundred years, the Chinese Communist Party has united and led all the struggles, all sacrifices, and all creations of the Chinese people, which boil down to one theme: realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The Chinese Communist Party has united and led the Chinese people to achieve the great achievements of the new democratic revolution, the great achievements of the socialist revolution and construction, the great achievements of reform and opening up, and the socialist modernization, and the great achievements of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Great achievements are inseparable from the strong support provided by a strong army.
Under the absolute leadership of the party, the People’s Army has developed from a single service army into a powerful army united by various services and arms, and from an army armed with “millet plus rifles” in the past, it has developed into a basic realization of mechanization and accelerated the advancement of mechanization, informatization, and intelligent integration. A powerful army developed.
At the same time, our party’s leaders commanded the people’s army and directed scenes after scenes of mighty and majestic war dramas, creating incredible miracles in the history of human warfare.
From the centuries of struggle of the party, we can see clearly why the army can win the battle in the past, understand how to continue to win the battle in the future, and extract the magic weapon for defeating the enemy. The military and even the rejuvenation of a powerful country are of great significance.
1. Always adhere to the party's command of the gun, leading the correct direction of a strong army to victory
Whether an army works for the interests of the few or the overwhelming majority fundamentally determines the direction of army building and military struggle.
Our party is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. Only a new type of people’s army that has grown up under the party’s absolute leadership is the people’s army and has the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly. In order to ensure the right direction for a strong army to win the war.
General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out at the celebration of the centenary anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China: “Persist in the party’s command of guns and build its own people’s army is an unbreakable truth drawn by the party in the struggle of blood and fire.” Persisting in observing the party’s command, With the full "empowerment" of the party, the people's army will have faith, direction, and strength, and will be able to build immortal merits for the country, nation, and people under the party's banner.
Over the past 90 years since the founding of the army, the people's army has been able to clear the fog of history, cross the rapids and rapids, and achieve brilliant victories one after another, fundamentally because of the absolute leadership of the party.
From the "Three Bays Reorganization" to the establishment of the party branch on the company, to the establishment of the principles of ideological party building and political army building at the Gutian Conference, it has since ensured that the People’s Army will survive hardships and dangers and will not break apart; In the end, the Central Red Army can achieve a major strategic shift. The fundamental reason is that no matter how difficult the environment is, they always listen to and follow the party; from the victory of Pingxingguan and the battle of Hundred Regiments to crush the myth of "invincibility" of the Japanese army, to the decisive victory. The Three Great Battles", the People's Army unconditionally implemented the party's orders, "like a harmonious family, like a solid piece of steel."
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, our party raised the principle of army building of the party’s command gun to the country’s basic military system, and achieved the organic unity and high degree of unity between the party’s army, the people’s army, and the socialist country’s army.
The People's Army went abroad to fight against U.S. aggression and aid Korea, and carried out many frontier self-defense operations, unleashing national prestige and military prestige, defending the motherland's thousands of miles of frontiers and vast seas and air.
Entering the new era, the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and Chairman Xi have used strong political determination to incorporate "adherence to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army" into the basic strategy of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, leading the people's army to write a new era The magnificent chapter of the cause of strengthening the army is to shoulder the mission and tasks of the new era entrusted by the party and the people.
History has shown us that no matter how the form of war evolves, the internal and external environments of army building, and how the organization of the army is adjusted, we must unswervingly adhere to the party's command of guns to ensure that a strong army always serves the interests of the country, the nation, and the people.
To strengthen army building and launch military struggles on the new journey, we must thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and firmly establish the guiding position of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Strengthening the Army in national defense and army building.
It is necessary to comprehensively and thoroughly implement the responsibility system of the chairman of the Military Commission, implement and reflect the party's absolute leadership of the people's army in the entire process of army building in all fields, and ensure that the army is absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, and absolutely reliable.
It is necessary to further promote the study and education of party history, highlight the cultivation of the military soul, maintain the red blood, use the party’s struggle history and great achievements to inspire fighting spirit and guide the direction, use the party’s glorious tradition and fine style to strengthen beliefs and gather strength. Under the absolute leadership of China, a new historical glory was cast.
2. Always adhere to the mission traction, establish the goal of a strong army to win the war
The mission is the goal, the mission is to lead, and the mission is to bear.
An army without a mission is an army with no future for development.
The mission of the party determines the mission of the people's army, and the people's army will fight wherever the party points.
On June 29, 1929, a soldier wrote in an article in the "Red Flag" magazine: "Our Red Army is an ideological army, a politically trained army. We not only know how to fight, but especially why we want to fight. "The People's Army understands the fundamental principle of "for whom to carry guns and fight for whom". Once it was born, it has bravely devoted itself to the historical torrent of seeking liberation and happiness for the Chinese people, and seeking independence and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation.
The initial heart is like a torch, and the mission is like a mountain.
The historical mission of the people's army has always been determined in accordance with the historical mission of the party in different periods.
The mission is like a red line that runs through the people's army under the leadership of the party to create a new China, defend the new China, and build a new China.
During the Revolutionary War, from the "August One Declaration of Righteousness" "Down with imperialism", "Down with the old and new warlords", "Practice tillers have their land", to "The Eighth Route Army's Oath of Anti-Japanese War", "For the nation, for the country, for the compatriots, for the children and grandchildren" We can only fight to the end", and then to "carry the revolution through to the end", "in the historical trend of progress in China and the world, unswervingly push our cause forward to the glorious shore", the People’s Army faithfully fulfills the party With the mission and tasks entrusted by the people, we overcame all obstacles and made great sacrifices, defeated the extremely fierce enemies at home and abroad, overthrew the three mountains weighing on the Chinese people, and laid a solid foundation for the establishment of a new China.
During the peace building period, we should devote ourselves to the socialist modernization drive and the great new revolution of reform and opening up, effectively responding to various threats to national security, and resolutely cracking down on all forms of separatism and sabotage, in order to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and to safeguard our country The period of important strategic opportunities for development has provided powerful support for maintaining regional and world peace.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our army has reinvigorated the political program, reshaped the organizational form, reorganized the struggle pattern, reconstructed the construction layout, re-established the image of the work style, and faithfully fulfilled the mission and tasks assigned by the party and the people in the new era, in order to consolidate the Communist Party of China. Leaders and my country's socialist system provide strategic support, provide strategic support for safeguarding national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity, provide strategic support for safeguarding my country's overseas interests, and provide strategic support for promoting world peace and development.
History has proved that missions and tasks are like a melting pot, forging the people's army even stronger.
The improvement in the ability of a strong army to defeat wars has provided a solid support for the people's army to assume greater missions.
For the Chinese nation to get out of misery and realize the liberation of the Chinese people depends on a heroic people's army. To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the Chinese people to achieve a better life, we must accelerate the building of the people's army into a world-class army.
It must be clearly understood that at the critical stage of the country’s development from large to strong, military means have always been a means of safeguarding national security.
At the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping used the "strong pillar" and "strong force" to position the people's army, emphasizing "build the people's army into a world-class army, and defend national sovereignty with stronger capabilities and more reliable means." , Security, and development interests!” The People’s Army must always keep in mind the mission and tasks assigned by the party and the people in the new era, maintain a high degree of political consciousness and strategic sobriety, focus on preparing for war, comprehensively improve the level of training and the ability to win, and continue to create what is worthy of history. The new performance of the times.
3. Always adhere to the comprehensive forging to form a strong ability for a strong army to win battles
Forging and enhancing the military’s powerful military capabilities is a complex system project that not only depends on the military’s work well, but also on the overall strength of the large system of national defense and military construction to revolutionize and modernize the military. , The construction of regularization is comprehensively strengthened, so that military work, political work, logistics work, and equipment work will promote each other, and the human factor, material factor, and mechanism factor combining human and material will be coordinated and coupled, forming a "1+1>" 2" system aggregation effect.
Looking back at history, our party has always used a systematic perspective to plan and promote army building, strive to form a pattern and mechanism in which all kinds of positive factors develop and promote each other, and continuously increase the contribution rate of various construction and work to the generation of military capabilities. .
As early as the Gutian Conference in December 1929, Mao Zedong refuted the "pure military viewpoints" that existed in the Fourth Red Army.
On the eve of the founding of New China, Mao Zedong pointed out in his opening speech at the first plenary session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference: “We will not only have a strong army, but also a powerful air force and a powerful navy.” In the autumn of 1981, At the end of the North China exercise, Deng Xiaoping made a high-level summary of the overall goal of army building in the new period: to build our army into a powerful, modern and regularized revolutionary army.
In the 1990s, Jiang Zemin put forward the general requirements of politically qualified, strong military, good style, strict discipline, and strong support.
In the new stage of the new century, Hu Jintao emphasized that the overall construction of the army should be strengthened in accordance with the principle of the integration of revolutionization, modernization, and regularization.
In the new era, President Xi made new plans and deployments for the comprehensive forging of our military’s strong military capabilities. He proposed to build a people’s army that listens to the party’s command, can win battles, and has a good work style, and builds the people’s army into a world-class army. The new era of strong military layout of political building of the army, reforming and strengthening the army, science and technology, talents strengthening the army, and ruling the army in accordance with the law is consistent with the national modernization process, and comprehensively promotes the modernization of military theory, the modernization of the military organization, the modernization of military personnel, and weapons and equipment. modernization.
There are laws for a strong army to win battles, but people are not completely passive and dominated by laws.
As long as we have a deep insight into the law and actively grasp and control the law, we will be able to grasp the initiative of a strong army in victory.
Both army building and war duels are complex systems, especially the complexity of winning. Many rules of winning often work simultaneously on the battlefield and jointly regulate the course and outcome of wars.
From the perspective of world military history, all prestigious commanders and generals are often better than their opponents in insight and application of the law, and they have achieved great use and single-mindedness.
Those well-known military masterpieces at home and abroad often profoundly reveal the laws of war under time and space conditions.
Such as Mahan's "sea power" theory, Duhei's "air supremacy" theory, Fuller's "mechanized war" theory, Tukhachevsky's "deep combat" theory, Graham's "high frontier" theory And so on, before the arrival of a new era, early insight into the law of twilight, looking at the essence through the phenomenon, clearing the direction of confusion, leading the military trend and changing the face of war.
Since the founding of the People’s Army, our party has always focused on exploring and revealing the law of victory by a strong army, leading our army from small to large, from weak to strong, and constantly moving from victory to victory.
From the "16-character formula" during the Red Army period to the "protracted war" during the Anti-Japanese War, from the "ten military principles" during the War of Liberation, to the "null knitting sugar" during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and then to the founding of New China After the continuous adjustment of the post-military strategic policy, the People's Army learned war from war and explored laws from practice, writing a vivid chapter of continuous innovation in the art of war instruction in the world's military history.
At present, we are in a historical intersection of the rapid development of the world's scientific and technological revolution and the military revolution, and the in-depth advancement of the cause of strengthening and rejuvenating the army.
This new military revolution is drastically changing the rules of the game of war, and the evolution of war patterns and combat styles is accelerating, and it is necessary to understand the "temper" of modern warfare to win a strong army.
We need to abstractly extract the general characteristics of intelligent information warfare, thoroughly understand the winning mechanism of wars, and at the same time, combine our own security threat analysis to sum up specific special warfare laws, and accelerate the formation of modern, leading, Unique military theory system, and form a strong combat effectiveness in actual combat training, joint combat training, strong scientific and technological training, and training according to the law. In difficult and rigorous training, it can flexibly master the use of the laws of war and the winning mechanism, and strive to occupy the military competition. Take the commanding heights and win new victories in future wars.
(Author: Guo Ruobing, Dean of the National Security College of the National Defense University, Director of the Office of the Research Center for the Study of Jinping New Era Socialism with Chinese Characteristics at the National Defense University)