Strong Military Forum | Hearing the "Key Signals" of the Battlefield

Source-stated date: 1 November 2026 · PLA Daily (解放军报)

强军论坛丨听清战场的“关键信号”

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Published1 November 2026, by CMC Political Work Department
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A commentary in the PLA's Strong Military Forum uses the psychological "cocktail party effect" as a framework to argue that commanders in informatized and intelligentized warfare (信息化智能化战争) face information overload rather than information scarcity, and that the decisive skill is building "recognition templates" to filter battlefield noise and isolate high-value signals — illustrated by the Cold War U.S. acoustic-signature (声纹) monitoring of Soviet submarines. The piece documents a recurring PLA institutional concern: that sensor proliferation and data volume are outpacing officers' analytical and judgment capacity (研判能力), and that algorithmic tools can flag anomalies but cannot substitute for human assessment of operational significance. The framing points to ongoing tension within PLA doctrine between enthusiasm for AI-assisted intelligence fusion and acknowledgment that human cognition remains the limiting factor in the kill chain.

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听清战场的“关键信号” ■张西成在一个嘈杂的鸡尾酒会上，人们能够神奇地从纷杂的背景声中，精准捕捉到自己名字被呼唤的瞬间。心理学家将这种现象称为“鸡尾酒会效应”：人类听觉系统具有一种选择性注意机制，可以在海量信息中自动过滤噪声，锁定与自己相关的信息。这一看似普通的感知现象，对今天信息化智能化战争背景下的信息处理，具有深刻启示意义。现代战场面临的早已不是信息匮乏，很多时候是信息超载、信息过剩、信息膨胀。各类侦察卫星、无人机蜂群、电子侦听设备、网络探针等感知手段全天候运行，将海量数据汇聚至指挥中枢。摆在指挥员面前的现实难题，已不再是信息难以获取，而是如何从信息的海洋里，像鸡尾酒会上的人一样，迅速识别出那个“被呼唤的名字”，也就是那些关乎战场胜负的“关键信号”。 “鸡尾酒会效应”之所以生效，是因为人的大脑不会试图听清酒会上的每一句话，而是会设定一个“注意力阈值”：将无关声音归入背景噪声，同时将自己的名字、熟悉的声音等预设为识别模板；一旦外界声音信号与模板匹配，注意力便瞬间被激活。战场信息同样如此。情报工作当然应当追求全源覆盖、全息采集，但“全量”往往意味着“全盲”。真正的决策优势并不取决于掌握数据的体量，而取决于能否建立科学的过滤机制和识别模板，知道什么该重点看、什么可以忽略，并能在攸关战局的信息出现时迅速甄别、精准捕捉。冷战时期，美军长期监听苏联潜艇活动，并为每艘潜艇建立声纹档案。一旦某艘潜艇因更换螺旋桨或维修主机导致声纹发生细微变化，监听分析系统便能立即发出警报。美军这一针对性做法，一度使苏联潜艇难以隐蔽行踪。然而，真正重要的信息，有时恰恰来自被忽略的背景噪声。“鸡尾酒会效应”还有一个有趣的现象：人们听到自己的名字，往往并非主动注意的结果，而是在无意识中完成识别。战场上，“意外发现”有时比“刻意搜索”更有价值。二战后期，英国雷达操作员在荧光屏上发现了一些无法解释的微弱回波，起初误以为是设备故障信号，后来发现那是德军V2火箭发射时尾焰产生的雷达回波。如今，人工智能算法可以从海量数据中自主挖掘异常信息和隐藏关联，极大减轻了官兵处理信息的工作压力。然而，从噪声中挖掘情报价值，终究离不开人的敏锐直觉和经验积累。算法可以标记各类异常，但异常是否有实战意义，最终仍需使用者作出判断。说到底，人的研判能力始终是信息链上的决定性一环。机器可以辅助检索，但无法替代人的价值判断。面对海量涌来的信息数据，各级指挥员应努力养成勤于学习、善于吸纳新知识的习惯，让信息素养适配快速迭代的智能化战场；养成专心致志、善抓主要矛盾的习惯，让有限的认知资源精准聚焦于决定胜负的核心变量；养成善辨真伪、保持敏锐嗅觉的习惯，让质疑与甄别成为一种自觉。唯有如此，才能在嘈杂的战场信息洪流中，精准捕捉到那个呼唤自己名字的“关键信号”。

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