Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-07-14

Strong Military Forum | Expanding on 'A One-Word Order'

强军论坛丨从“一个字的命令”说开去

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从“一个字的命令”说开去 ■张西成解放战争时期，我军某营奉命歼灭某地渡口的守敌，抢占要道，为大部队开辟通路。然而，当该营准时到达目的地时，敌人已提前逃跑。接到这一情况报告，上级立即下了一道补充命令——“追”。该营营长接到这份仅有一个字的命令后，立刻明白了一件事：命令只写一个字，说明情况紧急，必须快。按照这个意思，营长带领部队迅速行动，圆满完成了任务、实现了上级意图。这份一个字的作战命令，是个特殊的例子，但它揭示了一个普遍的道理：写战斗文书必须本着简而明的原则，从实际出发，在讲清楚的基础上，尽量少讲重复话、啰嗦话，以及那些多年形成习惯的套话。尤其是身处“秒杀”时代的战场，战况瞬息万变、战机稍纵即逝，如果机械地从分析敌情、我情入手，动辄长篇大论，恐怕命令还未传达到，战斗就已经结束了。如无必要，勿增虚务。毛泽东同志曾断言：“繁琐哲学总是要灭亡的。”德国军事家兴登堡也说过：“最简单也是最难的，战争中只有简单才能获得成功。”战争本身的复杂性与遂行战争的简单性，中间必不可少的是化繁为简、剑指七寸、举重若轻的能力。倘若领导机关繁琐拖沓，又如何能指挥部队上战场、打胜仗？可以说，战争让一切变得简单，从来不是一种主观选择，而是战场环境的客观倒逼。抗美援朝战争期间，秦基伟同志指挥上甘岭战役时与困守坑道的部队通话，刚说一句：“转告坑道里的同志们，军党委和军首长都很惦记前面的同志……”就被电话兵毫不客气地打断了：“首长，别啰嗦了！拣要紧的说，先下命令吧！”秦基伟回忆这件事时说：“战士们做得对啊！那时牺牲了很多通信兵，也很难保障电话长时间畅通，只能抢一句算一句。”这件事，值得我们深思。一位哲人说，战争的规则虽然简单，然而平时很少有人遵守。为什么？因为许多人没有真正站在战场的角度去思考。如果以不打仗的心态做打仗的准备，那么“五多”问题就不可能彻底根治。倘若每名官兵都能站在“生死之地”想问题、懂得“存亡之道”是什么，就会明白上了战场应该做什么、应该怎么做，就不会把简单问题复杂化。对军人而言，最好的老师是对手，真正的课堂是沙场。战争思维在哪里立起来，繁文缛节就要从哪里退下去。必须充分认识到，面对严峻复杂的国际形势和艰巨繁重的使命任务，广大指战员要与时俱进更新战争思维和作战理念，始终把思维锚定在战场、把标准聚焦在打赢，强化繁琐就是祸患、拖延就是溃败的意识，化繁为简、务求实效，去伪存真、专攻精练，切实做到“阻碍备战的就减、偏离实战的就删、影响胜战的就停”，让繁文缛节无处藏身，确保战斗力建设重心不偏、焦点不散、有序推进。

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A PLA commentary published in the Strong Military Forum uses historical examples—including a single-character Liberation War order and a Korean War anecdote about General Qin Jiwei—to argue that verbose command documents and bureaucratic process directly degrade combat effectiveness in high-tempo warfare. The piece documents a persistent institutional problem the PLA labels the 'five excesses' (五多问题): excessive meetings, documents, assessments, forms, and inspections that crowd out warfighting preparation. The explicit framing—that officers who lack genuine battlefield orientation will never resolve this problem—extends a years-long PLA effort to use political education channels to pressure mid-level commanders into internalizing combat standards rather than administrative ones, and raises the question of how deeply that effort has actually penetrated below the leading-organ level.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "强军论坛丨从“一个字的命令”说开去." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-07-14. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16473534.html.

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