In the field of war, if there is any eternal truth, it is "change". With the rapid development of cutting-edge intelligent technology, the intelligent era is coming, and intelligent warfare is also on the rise, impacting people's original cognitive framework of war. Especially, driven by new technologies and theories such as mobile Internet, big data, supercomputing and brain science, artificial intelligence presents new features such as deep learning, cross-border integration, man-machine cooperation, group intelligence development and autonomous control, which has triggered a chain breakthrough in the military field, which has greatly changed people, weapons and the combination of people and weapons, weapons and weapons.

In this context, only by closely tracking the development trend of the world's intelligent science and technology, fully spreading the wings of imagination, observing and studying from the perspectives of combat subjects, combat space and combat methods, can we keep the pulse of future wars.

Man-machine cooperation, people in the loop. The war of mankind has always been a competition of "intelligence", but in the future intelligent war, part of human intelligence will be "transplanted" to weapons, and the coupling between man and weapon system will become closer and closer, and it will tend to be integrated, that is, man-machine cooperation. Of course, as the main body of the war, it is still the decisive factor to win the intelligent war because of its unique subjective initiative. At the same time, the way of "people in the loop" will ensure that people firmly control the "right to fire" of war. When a new generation of smarter robots go to the battlefield, "man-machine cooperation, people in the loop" will lead to profound changes in combat style. At that time, the party without the support of cutting-edge intelligent technology will not be able to grasp the initiative in the battlefield, and the command system that is highly dependent on data security will become the achilles heel of the entire combat system.

Intelligent perception, global operation. In the past wars, limited by the level of scientific and technological development, there were insurmountable obstacles between different combat domains, let alone integrated and intelligent situational awareness. The underlying logic of the future intelligent combat system is to further enhance interconnection, so as to realize the intelligent perception of global operations. On the one hand, intelligent technology greatly enriches the connotation of combat domain, including not only traditional physical space and information space such as land, sea, air and sky power grids, but also broader fields such as biology, quantum and cognition. On the other hand, the full-time, global scanning, accurate and intelligent analysis of the battlefield by intelligent technology will cause double effects of actual combat damage and strategic deterrence.

Algorithm attack and defense, cloud brain control. An outstanding feature of intelligent warfare in the future is that unmanned combat becomes the basic style, algorithm warfare is its deep core, and the game of war will be the game of intelligent algorithm. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the horses and soldiers did not move, and the food and grass came first". In the future, it may be "the horses and soldiers did not move, and the algorithm came first". In this regard, someone once said: "How to face the speed, chaos, bloody and intense scenes of future wars, our answer is only one, and that is algorithmic warfare." In the intelligent combat system, distributed combat units are linked through the cloud brain, and the aggregated data itself will become the focus of both sides' attack and defense. At that time, how to infiltrate, pollute and destroy each other's data sources, data links and data networks is destined to become the key to controlling the initiative in the war.

Intelligent technology will not only give birth to new weapons and equipment, bring new combat space, but also lead to the great expansion of joint operations in breadth and depth. Du Hei, the father of "air superiority", once said: "Victory only smiles at those who can foresee the changes in the characteristics of war, not at those who wait for the changes to occur before adapting." In the face of accelerated intelligent war, whoever stays in front of solidified thinking will be eliminated by the times. Only by taking the future as the guide, accelerating the activation of thinking and transcending traditional cognition can we seize the opportunity and win.