Chapter 6 - Strategic Evaluation

With the continuous development of human military practice activities, strategic evaluation has become anindispensable and important link in military strategic guidance, and has a significant impact on thedevelopment process of strategic activities. Practice has proved that after entering the information age, therole of strategic evaluation has further risen, and strategic instructors must pay close attention to it. Section One: The meaning and role of strategic evaluationStrategic evaluation is produced in the long-term military conflict practice of mankind. It is an objectiverequirement for the implementation of scientific guidance on strategic activities. Its meaning and rolecontinue to develop with the practice of military conflicts, and present the trend of the professionalization ofevaluation of the main body and scientification of evaluation method, and diversification of evaluationcontent.1. The meaning of strategic evaluationStrategic evaluation refers to the process of using scientific methods to conduct qualitative and quantitativecomprehensive evaluation of strategic activities, and make corresponding evaluation conclusions. Itgenerally includes pre-evaluation, stage evaluation and effectiveness evaluation.In the military field, although strategic evaluation activities have long existed, they are mainly characterizedby qualitative analysis. It was not until the 1980s that due to the development of computer technology,strategic evaluation began to move from static evaluation to dynamic simulation evaluation, and qualitativeevaluation to qualitative evaluation. The combination of quantitative evaluation and development hasresulted in the emergence of a strategic evaluation system that adapts to different evaluation tasks, and theevaluation theory has also been greatly developed. A professional evaluation agency and a specialevaluation system have been established.