Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-08-13

A Picture Worth a Thousand Words | Do Not Be an "Amateur" at Waging War

画里有话丨不做打仗的“外行人”

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不做打仗的“外行人” ■王大飞作者：张学士 1952年3月，周希汉同志调任海军参谋长。当时，正值新中国海军初创，他立下“累死也不做‘外行人’”的誓言，将能找到的俄文资料全部翻了个遍，书房的灯经常通宵达旦亮着。靠着这股拼劲，他很快实现了从陆军猛将到海军战将的蜕变。做能打仗、打胜仗的“行家里手”，始终是我军指挥员的不懈追求和价值旨归。我军开国战将之所以懂指挥、能打仗，一个重要原因就是善于学习、勤于钻研，绝不做“外行人”。这种精神品格，值得今天的指挥员学习。当前，战争形态加速向信息化智能化战争演进，作战理论、制胜机理、作战技术、战法打法等不断迭代升级，制胜方式正从传统的“消耗战”向“耗散战”深刻转变，核心逻辑由物理域的物质能量对冲，升级为多域融合的体系破击与认知主导。作为指挥员，如果跟不上“明天的战争”，就会成为战争的“门外汉”，打起仗来是靠不住的，官兵心里也是瞧不起的。 20世纪50年代初，陆军出身的聂凤智同志被任命为华东军区空军司令员。此后，他放下司令员身段当学生，虚心向飞行员、雷达技师、通信参谋请教；全天泡在塔台、指挥所，跟随苏军专家跟班实操。依靠刻苦学习，他在短期内吃透了全套空军指挥体系，锤炼了指挥空战的本领。今天，各级指挥员也应盯着明天战争、盯着强敌对手，持续不断学习，努力实现观念更新、能力升级、素质扩容，全方位提升打赢本领。不做“外行人”，重在更新思维观念。思想走在行动之前，就像闪电走在雷鸣之前。今天的战争，多是理论指导实践，一场战争淘汰一种理论，一场变革催生一种理论。这就要求各级指挥员聚焦军事变革新发展、军事理论新成果，洞悉信息化智能化战争，让“战”的思维时刻“保鲜”，进而设计战争、赢得战争。要想成为现代战争的行家里手，靠学习，也靠实践；靠钻研，也靠训练。各级指挥员只有积极投身实战化训练，带头进入战位、进入角色、进入情况，带头练谋略、练指挥，不断创新战法打法，备足指挥明天战争的“工具箱”，才能提升新时代打赢能力，获得领兵打仗的“资格证”。

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A PLA Daily illustrated commentary invokes the early-1950s examples of Navy Chief of Staff Zhou Xihan and East China Military Region Air Force Commander Nie Fengzhi to press today's commanders to master informatized and intelligentized warfare (信息化智能化战争) rather than remain "amateurs" — specifically framing the shift from attrition warfare (消耗战) to "dissipation warfare" (耗散战), defined as multi-domain system destruction and cognitive dominance (体系破击与认知主导). This is standard political-education content; its value is as a record of how PLA media is currently framing the conceptual demands placed on commanders, and of which doctrinal vocabulary — particularly 耗散战 — the institution is actively pushing into the officer corps.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "画里有话丨不做打仗的“外行人”." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-08-13. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16479121.html.

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