Chapter 10 - War Planning - PART 1

Chapter 10 - War Planning Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must focus on innovating war and combat planning, closely follow the evolutionof war patterns and combat methods, closely follow combat tasks, combat opponents, and combatenvironments, and vigorously promote the style of research on combat issues." War planning is about thewar to be implemented. Overall planning and organization. The process of war planning is a process inwhich the strategic director transforms the political objectives into military objectives based on thedetermination of the political objectives of the war, and then carries out the overall design and pre-planningof the war around the objectives. Correct war planning is the basic guarantee for winning the war. The planning of information-based local wars, from the perspective of stages, includes planning the start ofthe war, the course of the war, and the end of the war; from the content point of view, it mainly involvesgrasping the characteristics of the war, making war decisions, designing war operations, constructingstrategic deployments, and organizing strategies coordination, overall planning of strategic guarantees,implementation of war mobilization, planning of political work, etc. The content of war planning should be themain body, and its related elements should be organically integrated in the planning of each stage of the warand the control of the whole battle situation.