[Military Martial Plane] Author: leon
As the geopolitical incident that had the greatest influence on the world in the last century, Cold War can be said to be one of the most familiar wars we are now. During the Cold War, the United States made an indelible contribution to the various "misleading" of the Soviet Union, such as the familiar Star Wars Plan . We can all know the final result. The Star Wars Plan is a targeted "strategic deception" launched by the United States, which has technological and economic advantages, launched a targeted "strategic deception" against the Soviet Union.
The result of this "strategic deception" is obvious. The final result accelerates the Soviet Union's increased efforts to invest limited resources in some "illusory" areas, thus accelerating the process of the Soviet Union's complete loss of the Cold War and finally having to disintegrate. However, there is one detail that remains to be seen. When the United States proposed the Star Wars plan, why did the Soviet Union choose to "believe" the United States' Star Wars plan?
▲The famous "Flanker" series of fighters is also a representative product of the Soviet military enterprises catching up with the United States after the United States proposed the combat concept of heavy third-generation aircraft such as the F-15. One reason is that it is probably more critical, which is that it runs through the entire Cold War. In fact, the overall national strength of the Soviet Union was weaker than that of the United States, and the same was true in terms of economic strength. You should know that even in the 1970s, the Soviet Union's national strength was at its peak, the Soviet Union's GDP accounted for only 42.3% of the United States at most. In the field of science and technology, the Soviet Union was also far from the United States.
After all, in the late 1960s, the United States still relied on its technological strength to develop the Apollo moon landing plan that is now difficult for many countries to see. The Soviet Union was also in a gap with the United States in some military-industrial and technological fields. Because of this, when the United States proposed the Star Wars plan, the Soviet Union also wanted to seize the initiative in some front-end fields to achieve the goal of being on par with the United States or even surpassing the United States.
▲Apollo moon landing plan also shows the United States' leading position in the global military technology level
So perhaps because of this reason, the Soviet Union's senior management chose to believe in the United States' "Star Wars" plan . I believe we all know the results later. Similarly, in the 1990s and early 21st century, when we were preparing to carry out our own aircraft carrier construction plan, we "coincidence" at that time, and at that time, various senior US military experts said that "heavy aircraft carrier useless theory" and " light aircraft carrier is the future development trend."
However, now we all know that even though various American military leaders spared no effort to promote the advantages of light aircraft carriers at that time, these seemingly "informed insights" remarks ended up being the same as the "Star Wars" plan, and also belonged to the category of "strategic deception". Of course, we did not believe it in the end, but there is a detail that is extremely terrifying to think about now.
▲ Judging from the current results, the sea control capability of a single light aircraft carrier may not be as good as the large-tonnage amphibious assault ship
. Regarding the gap in military technology level, our military technology and industrial strength level at that time were not far from that of the United States, but even from countries like Japan that were rebuilt after the war. In this case, it is actually very difficult to identify the "strategic deception" that is very misleading. After all, in terms of the leading level of military technology, the gap between us and the United States at that time was very significant.
However, if we don't believe it at all, we may miss an opportunity for development, just as the Soviet Union missed the global semiconductor industry development in the last century. So, this made it very difficult for us who didn’t know the answer at the time. Fortunately, we chose the right one in the end. However, this does not mean that under the premise of such passive guidance, we can also ensure that the next time we judge this "strategic deception", we can not choose the wrong choice without knowing the final answer.
▲Even Russian military enterprises have developed a cross-generational T-14 tank forward-lookingly, due to the limitations of their own military-industrial technology, it is difficult for such advanced tank to be equipped with
in large quantities. So, how to avoid this situation? The answer is actually obvious, which is to strive to develop our own scientific and technological strength to reach the top level in the world. If we reach that stage, our military-industrial scientific and technological level can be said to have the potential to determine its development orientation. To a certain extent, there is no catching-up anxiety in order to catch up with others, which will reduce the possibility of our strategic misjudgment.
Even in this case, strategic misjudgment will not put itself in a state of no return. U.S. Navy pointed out the wrong technology tree of littoral combat ship in the past few years, but even under its own "trial and error path", in terms of comprehensive combat strength, the U.S. Navy's military-industrial technology strength is still the unquestionable first in the world. In other words, the strength of our own military strength can be said to be the best way for us to deal with various "strategic deceptions".
▲Because my country's strength in the field of anti-ship ballistic missile is the top in the world, in this regard, we will hardly be deceived with strategic misleading
Therefore, at present, when our military-industrial technology level is not strong enough to ignore a superpower on the other side of the ocean, we may still need to low-keyly improve our military-industrial technology level, and quietly implement the development concept of Chinese modernization, so as to truly make our military-industrial technology level reach the world's top level. At that time, under our absolute leading position in military-industrial technology level, various conspiracies and strategic deceptions may lose their fundamental significance.
