Chapter 10 - War Planning

Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must focus on innovating war and combat planning, closely follow the evolution
of war patterns and combat methods, closely follow combat tasks, combat opponents, and combat
environments, and vigorously promote the style of research on combat issues." War planning is about the
war to be implemented. Overall planning and organization. The process of war planning is a process in
which the strategic director transforms the political objectives into military objectives based on the
determination of the political objectives of the war, and then carries out the overall design and pre-planning
of 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 of
the war, the course of the war, and the end of the war; from the content point of view, it mainly involves
grasping the characteristics of the war, making war decisions, designing war operations, constructing
strategic 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 the
main body, and its related elements should be organically integrated in the planning of each stage of the war
and the control of the whole battle situation.