"Time is the army" is a famous saying in the article "The Process of Ground War" written by Engels 100 years ago. Today, with the application of high technology in war, especially the rapid development of electronic and information equipment, time plays an increasingly important role in war. Time is the victory of the army, the fighting capacity and the life of the soldiers. Therefore, strengthening the time management of officers and men, improving their time concept and giving full play to the maximum efficiency of time, especially educating officers and men to establish the concept that time is victory, is not only the need to improve training and work efficiency in peacetime, but also the need to improve the rapid response ability of troops in wartime and "win" future wars.

"Soldiers are expensive and fast" is the motto of military strategists at home and abroad. In war, sometimes more troops and sometimes more artillery can't solve the problem, but the troops act quickly, even if it is a few minutes' journey, but it can decide a temporary victory, and they can win and win if they fight for time. In World War II, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the US military headquarters did not know nothing, but sent an early warning telegram to Hawaii one hour in advance. However, due to the slow transmission, the telegram at 6: 46 am that day arrived at 3 pm. That is, seven hours after the Japanese plane attacked and bombed, it was sent to the Pearl Harbor Commander General Salt, and the important operational instructions became a worthless piece of waste paper, causing great losses to the US military. With the rapid development of modern war, the pace of war has been greatly accelerated. 1981June, Israel attacked Iraq, and within two minutes, all the nuclear reactors built in Iraq in five years were destroyed. 1986, the second American attack on Libya took only 12 minutes; In the Iraq war, the United States and Britain occupied Baghdad in just over ten days.

We often say that "every second counts" can no longer meet the needs of future wars. The appearance and application of high-speed weapons will make the measurement of war time calculated in milliseconds and microseconds. In the war between Britain and Oman, the Afghan super flag fighter launched a flying fish missile to attack the British warship Sheffield. Captain Sheffield had only six seconds to know the information about the missile attack, and the reaction ship had to fight for at least 20 seconds. Unable to take defensive measures, the officers and men of the battleship Sheffield had to look at the bomb and sigh. The future war will also be a three-dimensional war of all services and arms, and the actions of all forces have a unified time and must be accurate. If there is no time precision, there is no possibility of coordinated operations and the consequences are unimaginable.

It can be seen that future operations require troops to respond at the fastest speed in a very short time and take defense and attack in a very short time. Only in this way can we ensure an invincible position. In order to improve our army's rapid response ability in future local wars, we should strengthen time management in peacetime, educate every officer and soldier to establish a new concept that time is the army and time is victory, cultivate a good habit of cherishing every moment in all actions, minimize the waste of time in each action, and give full play to the role of unit time, so as to improve the army's ability to seize fighters as soon as possible.