"The United States' army today is undoubtedly the most powerful. Our army can appear anywhere in the world within 24 hours. Advanced weapons and equipment can launch any low-concentration high-tech war and win. Unfortunately, the tactical ideas of our army are not domestic. They come from China, a country with more than one level of weapons and equipment worse than the United States. This is recognized by the world's military theory community, and it is also something we have to admit..."

——Excerpt from American military expert Abraham; Jordan's "American Army"

"Special operations are not new. Since ancient times, countless battles have fallen into the category of special operations. However, as a theory, the military ideas about special operations and special forces have never been written so completely and thoroughly, and it points out the direction for our commanders.

It is this book that we can find inspiration for battle. It is this book that we can achieve overwhelming victory in the Battle of the Cabernet Island. Therefore, I suggest that commanders at all levels of the Special Forces must read this book carefully, which is the Bible of our Special Forces soldiers."

——Preface by British Special Forces Commander Rennes in the English translation of "Special Operations and Special Forces"

"GPS global positioning system, cruise missiles, laser-guided bombs, drones, and commands that destroy enemy forces thousands of miles away. The emergence and use of these weapons confirms the book that was only circulated among a few people more than a decade ago. When the theories and ideas in the book were realized one by one, the author's knowledge amazes all military experts. Although the Chinese military has not released the true situation of the author or author group, this book is enough to be placed in a must-read book for military academies around the world."

——The United States Time magazine November 20, 1992

"More than ten years ago, everyone knows how many books we have published. It is no exaggeration to say that these books have changed the form of world wars and promoted the modernization of our army. The world knows the role of these books now. Of course, there are reasons for our own leaks. But how many people are there who are the middle and senior commanders of our army who truly understand and read thoroughly? In actual training, how many people really understand and work hard to do? Under the rapid development of military technology today, only by catching up and being more active than others can we win the future high-tech war. We have a long way to go."

——Speech by a leader of the Central Military Commission at a military work conference for the whole army

In his spare time, usually at night and when there is nothing to talk about, Zeng Zhi would find a book from the book box left by Ning Weidong, lying on the kang to read it, and most likely he would fall asleep after turning a few pages. The mute would smoke a few cigarettes and read it over and over with a newspaper.

On a winter night, the wind outside the house roared again, and the room was warm. On such a night, Li Siming would cross his knees on the kang and brew a cup of strong tea to write and draw. Li Siming has always wanted to write a few books. Regarding the future, he did not want to join the army, but if he wrote a few military works with profound thoughts, it would be a way to serve the army. This is also a kind of compensation, just like an armed company.

What he did not expect was that the books he wrote were selected as must-read by military academies around the world, and the influence was so great that countless domestic and foreign military experts were asking about the true identities of the authors of these books through various channels. For a long time, these books existed as state secrets. When a few insiders learned that he was conceiving these books when raising pigs, they all laughed.

He was not from a military academy, nor was he specializing in military theory research. These new military ideas were just something he had read as a soldier. As a military science and technology expert, all weapons and equipment must be designed with its background, scope of use, and usage methods. Therefore, being able to write these books is not just "plagiarism", but strictly speaking, it should be a summary. Because the past low-concentration wars in the next 20 years provide him with enough inspiration and opportunities for theoretical and practical verification.

The book "Special Operations and Special Forces" is the first book written by Li Siming. The reason is that he is more familiar with this aspect, after all, it is something he has experienced personally. In this book, it is clearly stated that with the changes in the future world's political landscape, wars of scale such as the First and World War II will be difficult to happen again. Future wars are mainly medium-, low-intensity wars and high-tech wars. Special forces will be more and more used in wars. In the book, Li Siming gave a detailed description of the tasks, combat methods, organization and training of special forces.

The book points out that the task of special forces is to storm the enemy's important political, economic, military goals and other special tasks. They are ready to dispatch, cross mountains, cross rivers, cross seas, airborne, independently or cooperate with other troops to quietly infiltrate the enemy's occupied areas, reconnaissance the enemy's situation hundreds or thousands of kilometers away, assassinate key targets, obtain valuable intelligence, or blast valuable targets.

The special forces have unique equipment, which is different from any unit of the three armies. The special forces are equipped with various state-of-the-art vehicles, ships, aircraft and diving equipment, and are like a miniature three armies. Tanks and armored vehicles and aircraft are placed on the same training ground, becoming a unique scenery. They can truly be called "sea dragons and land tigers". Hiking, diving in, and parachutes in the air are their usual methods.

Special forces usually operate on small scales, focusing on secret infiltration and sudden attacks, failing to hit a single blow, and fleeing thousands of miles. Small-scale combat allows them to be flexible and maneuverable, and do not care about one place and one city. Small-scale combat requires a mature set of organization and weapon equipment. The book also gives corresponding suggestions.

The book also puts forward suggestions for special forces training to ensure that they can all be proficient in operating various light and heavy weapons at home and abroad, and drive various equipment at high speed maneuvering and combat on the ground, air, sea and water.

"The Future of Chinese Army" is the book that Li Siming spent the most time thinking about. Because Li Siming believes that correct and advanced military ideas are far more important than advanced weapons, equipment and tactics. This book can be regarded as a book that plays a fundamental guiding role in the construction of the Chinese army, and as a major change in China's military thinking. Li Siming believes that in the near future, this book will play a far more important role than other books. If this book can be regarded as a root, while the other books can be regarded as branches.

As Li Siming later learned, this book was regarded as a treasure after being known to senior officials. A senior leader clearly stated at a high-level meeting that those who had not read this book were not qualified to sit here to talk about military construction.

This book summarizes the guiding ideology of our army's army since 1927, conducts convincing and rigorous and meticulous arguments and analysis from both positive and negative aspects, and reflects on the people's war thought for the first time, criticizes the "universal theory of people's war" and "outdated theory of people's war", and inherits and develops the arguments and principles that are suitable for future war forms.

The book made bold predictions about the world's politics, economy, military structure, China's national conditions and the development trend of modern warfare that were later proved to be extremely correct, and thus put forward many effective and reasonable suggestions for the construction of the Chinese army. The book criticized the serious situation of the current swelling, scattering, arrogant, extravagant and lazy state of the Chinese army, and gave specific methods. The book suggested that the Chinese army should maintain a scale of about 2.5 million by the end of this century, which requires China to target the current and future development trends of military science and technology, implement the elite military strategy, and build a capable and efficient army of a certain scale.

The book clearly states a lot of discussions on the guiding ideology, strategic policies, leadership strength, central tasks and basic requirements of the Chinese military. It is particularly important to put forward the requirements of revolutionizing, younger, knowledgeable and professionalizing the cadre team, attach importance to the application of science and technology in the military, and proposes to use the "five sentences" to guide and standardize the quality construction of our army with political qualifications, strong military style, strict discipline, and strong guarantees.
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