Everyone who has experienced the last decade of the 20th century will deeply feel the changes in the world.I believe that no one dares to say that there is another decade in history that has undergone greater changes than this decade.Of course, there are countless reasons for the vicissitudes of life, but only a few reasons have been mentioned repeatedly.One of them: the Gulf War. A war that changes the world.It seems exaggerated to link such a conclusion with a localized war that lasted only 42 days.However, this is true, and there is no need to list all the new terms that began to appear after January 17, 1991: just cite the former Soviet Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, clones, Microsoft, hackers, the Internet, the Southeast Asian financial crisis, The euro, and the last and only superpower in the world - the United States.These are enough.In terms of composition, we have reason to say that the degree of damage is no less than that of a war. Soros' financial attacks on Southeast Asia, bin Laden's terrorist attack on the US embassy, ​​and Aum Shinrikyo's poisoning of the Tokyo subway The troubles on the Internet with the likes of Morris Jr. are identified as quasi-war, quasi-war, and sub-war, which is the prototype of another kind of war.

Whatever you call them, they don't make us any more optimistic than we were before.We have no reason to be optimistic.Because the reduction of the role of war in a pure sense does not mean the end of war.Even in the so-called post-modern and post-industrial era, war will not be completely deconstructed.It is simply re-invading human society in a more complex, broader, subtler, and subtler way.As Byron said in his poem mourning Shelley: "Nothing happened, but the sea was transformed." The war transformed by modern technology and the market system will be more atypical The form of sexual warfare unfolds.In other words, while we see a relative decrease in military violence, Qingding will see an increase in political violence, economic violence, and technological violence.But no matter what form of violence it is, war is war, and changes in appearance do not prevent any war from following the principles of war.If we admit that the new principle of war will no longer be "to force the enemy to accept his will by means of force", but "to use all means, including force and non-force, military and non-military, lethal and non-lethal means, to force The enemy accepts its own interests".

This is change.War and the resulting change in the way it is fought; what, then, has caused the change?And what changes, where to change and how to face these changes?This is the subject that this book attempts to touch upon and reveal, and it is also the motivation for our decision to write this book. January 17, 1999 marks the eighth anniversary of the outbreak of the Gulf War.