Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-08-04

Viewing the Employment of Unmanned Combat Forces Rationally

理性看待无人作战力量运用

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最新局部冲突中，无人作战力量异军突起、深度融入作战体系，其实战应用场景得到不断拓展，“无人平台独立制胜”“无人作战改写战场法则”“无人作战力量催生新一轮军事革命”等论断此起彼伏，将无人作战力量视为重塑战争格局的颠覆性因素。然而，历史一再证明，战术成功不等于战略优势，战场创新不等于战争胜利。任何单一武器装备和作战样式创新，并不能改变战争运行的基本规律，更不能直接决定战争胜负。今天，对待无人作战力量，应当坚持辩证思维，遵循战争基本规律、立足体系建设全局，科学把握无人作战力量的功能定位，从而避免陷入过度夸大、以偏概全的认知误区。从攻防博弈规律看，作战样式每一次迭代升级，必然伴随反制体系同步演进。无人作战力量快速发展，倒逼反无人作战能力加速迭代。当前，世界各国在研发列装智能无人装备的同时，也在同步布局电子干扰、激光拦截、低空防空、诱骗捕获等反制技术装备，加快构建多层立体、软硬一体的反无人作战体系。各类反无人手段的探测精度、干扰效能、拦截效率与规模化应用水平，与无人作战力量智能化水平、机动突防能力、隐蔽突击性能等同步提升，导致无人作战力量难以形成单向度、绝对化的技术代差与作战优势。无人与反无人作战力量此消彼长、动态制衡、螺旋上升，已经成为战场对抗新常态。从作战成本逻辑看，低成本无人装备并不等于低成本战争，无人作战的体系化综合成本远高于表层认知。人们往往简单将无人作战力量视为“低成本弹药”，仅以单平台价格衡量作战成本，却忽视了无人作战所依托的作战体系的持续性消耗成本。未来战场，无人作战力量将扮演越来越重要的角色。但是，单纯地依赖无人作战力量完成所有作战任务，也是不现实的。无人作战的真正成本，绝非单个无人平台的采购维护费用，而是整个战争周期内维持规模化持续作战的体系化综合开销。无人作战的深层比拼，是国家长期工业制造与供应链保障的综合实力。因此，单平台造价虽相对低廉，但从规模化运用及长期战争消耗的全周期来看，综合战争成本依旧居高不下，对绝大多数国家而言，仍是难以承受的沉重负担。从体系作战定位看，无人作战力量是联合作战体系的重要延伸，而非传统作战力量的替代者，不能脱离体系支撑独立制胜。当前人们认知的主要偏差，是将无人平台从支撑其作战运用的完整体系中剥离出来，片面放大无人装备战术价值。事实上，每一次精准高效的无人作战行动，只是整个作战链条的终端落地，其涵盖前端情报侦察、目标甄别、通信中继、精准操控，以及后端装备运维、备件补给、技术保障等环节，并且需要与地面、空中等传统作战力量一体联动、深度协同、耦合发力。整个作战链路环环相扣、紧密衔接，任一环节出现问题，都会直接削弱整体作战效能。这表明，无人作战力量不能取代诸军兵种联合作战体系，其更多作为整个作战体系的有益补充和力量“倍增器”，能够在体系支撑下实现战力释放、效能倍增。综上，无人作战力量迭代升级，丰富拓展了作战样式与制胜路径，但并未改变战争制胜的基本规律与底层逻辑。无人智能技术能够助推作战能力跃升、实现战术层面突破创新，但无法单独主导战略全局、决定战争胜负，战争胜负归根结底取决于综合国力的博弈。因此，对待无人作战力量，应避免片面化、表象化认知偏差，树立体系思维、坚持统筹建设，在攻关无人作战关键技术、培育新型作战力量的同时，坚持夯实工业基础、完善全域保障体系、锤炼联合作战硬功，推动无人作战力量与传统作战体系深度融合。

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An article in Chinese military media argues against what it frames as cognitive overreach on unmanned combat forces, contending that unmanned platforms function as a force 'multiplier' (倍增器) within a joint system-of-systems rather than as independent war-winners, and that the true cost of unmanned warfare lies in industrial and supply-chain depth rather than unit-platform price. The piece invokes 辩证思维 (dialectical thinking) and 体系思维 (system-of-systems thinking) as the corrective framework, explicitly pushing back against claims circulating in PLA discourse that unmanned combat is catalyzing a new military revolution. The framing points to an internal debate over how to integrate unmanned capabilities into force development priorities without displacing investment in conventional joint-force foundations—a tension the article documents but does not resolve.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "理性看待无人作战力量运用." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-08-04. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16477578.html.

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