Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 371 1v60, the advantage is mine!
The army is about to be phased out!
The title is shocking.

It should be noted that everyone sitting in the auditorium of the battle building belongs to the army.

The purpose of the Central Training Program is also the Army, and the third phase of mechanization reform and development is also for the Army.

The armored regiment is one, and so is the Blue Army battalion.

Even the fact that this unit can exist and develop so vigorously is thanks to the army.

Who would have thought that if you let a scholar give a lecture on future prospects, this bastard would come up with something so outrageous right from the start.

What kind of talk is this, saying that the army is about to be phased out?

"Battalion Commander Chen, are you trying to ruin everyone's livelihood? What do you mean? Are you going to expel the army from the field?"

Inside the auditorium, a cadre from the training program, who was seated near the front, spoke with a displeased expression.

The cadres at Zhongpei are not like those at the grassroots level; they all understand the principle of arguing based on reason.

If someone is afraid to fight and doesn't dare to compete, who in the military would hire someone like that?
No sooner had the first sentence been uttered than the second training officer, who was so angry that he clenched his fists, said with the same cold face: "Hey Chen, I've known for a long time that you look like an air force officer. You son of a bitch, you always do things in a wildly unconventional way. Are you a spy from the air force who infiltrated our army?"

"That's right!"

Another cadre, with a square face, dark complexion, and an unassuming demeanor, spoke up.

For a while.

There were all sorts of insults being hurled inside the auditorium.

There were spies, scoundrels, and even people clamoring to go up and drag the scholar down to beat him.

This is normal; don't assume that officers in the military are somehow superior.

In reality, they have nothing to do with being high-class or sophisticated.

Or perhaps the military doesn't need you to be high-class or sophisticated.

Some people say that the army is going to be phased out, but it would be a real tragedy if a group of army officers in uniform remained indifferent.

Let alone these people from Zhongpei.

Even the old men under Commander Lu were indignant, their beards bristling and eyes wide with anger.

Fortunately, no one said anything; they were able to control themselves.

Chen Mo acted as if he hadn't heard the protests from his subordinates, focusing only on fiddling with the projector and letting the other people's opinions run rampant.

Occasionally, he would glance up to see how others reacted, taking in everyone's performance.

He appeared confident throughout, clearly enjoying being the center of attention and being the subject of conversation.

After all, what if you don't enjoy it?

The college entrusted him with the first lesson of the training program.

You just tell me to pay, but there's no information or support whatsoever, and you're already making me take the prospective education course.

What does "foresight" mean?

If there is data, then it is a well-reasoned and evidence-based academic lesson.

Without any supporting materials, it's just a series of wildly imaginative lectures that aim to shock and convince the people at Zhongpei.

The subsequent lessons could not be taught.

As the angry shouts from the audience grew louder, Chen Mo fiddled with the slides again, replacing the previous title.

Replace it with "Post-Tank Era"!
Then he strode to the podium in the auditorium, clapped his hands, and said, "Comrades, please be quiet for a moment."

"I know many people want to punch me because of the title I just wrote, but we are all civilized people, so let's restrain ourselves."

"After I finish speaking, if any of you here can refute me, then you can come up with your reasons."

Invisibly.

The attention of most people in the auditorium was drawn to Chen Mo.

I'm eager to know how this brat plans to fool everyone.

Even though the former principal, Li Yazhong, was furious, he had to admit that Chen Mo had simply thrown out a title, which had drawn the attention of more than a hundred people in the audience to one place.

That's truly rare.

Even the most brilliant professors don't have this level of classroom cohesion in regular academic classes.

As the principal, he finds it difficult to do this even on a regular basis.

Chen Mo seemed quite satisfied with the effect he had created. He nodded, glanced at the audience below, and said in a loud voice.

"When I say that the army is about to disappear, I don't mean the army as you know it, but rather that with the arrival of the post-tank era, continentalism is about to disappear."

"I don't know if my comrades have noticed, but as mechanization reforms continue to be implemented, the concept of joint task forces encompassing sea, land, air, space, and cyberspace has emerged."

Joint Task Force?
The audience below the stage were taken aback.

This is a completely new concept for people today.

The few people who had been whispering in the auditorium were now silent.

Knowledge reached their blind spots, and the commotion began to subside slightly.

As a result, the murderous intent that everyone had towards Chen Mo dissipated somewhat.

Chen Mo, the person involved, continued speaking as if he were completely unaware.

“In the past sixty years of our Army, the system has undergone five major conceptual changes.”

"For the first time, in the early stages of World War II, Hans's blitzkrieg theory accelerated the development of armored mechanization in the army."

"The second time, at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union's theory of depth brought the Continental Army and continental warfare to their peak."

"The third time, in the 1960s, Gaul's 'bubble' theory promoted the integration of the army with other branches of the armed forces."

"The fourth time, in the 1970s, the White Elephant's 'cold start' theory catalyzed the strengthening of rapid response capabilities in various countries, including many of our tank divisions that were converted into rapid reaction divisions."

"The fifth phase, which is the current one, is the joint operations that the United States started in the 1990s, transforming land warfare from the traditional three pillars of firepower, mobility, and protection to multiple forces, large space, three-dimensional, ultra-dimensional, and information-based operations."

"We've reached a crucial point."

Chen Mo's deep voice and calm analysis successfully captivated everyone in the auditorium.

He said that one advantage of forward-looking courses is that their perspective is not from the early 21st century.

No matter how brilliant a mentor is, they are limited by the times, and their teaching methods regarding information technology and future synthesis will always be subject to scrutiny.

But Chen Mo didn't.

When he teaches again, his thinking will naturally be from the perspective of later generations. He will use an outsider's perspective to explain the development along the way, which makes him more confident and persuasive.

When Chen Mo mentioned the cutoff point, he paused slightly and emphasized his words.

"Cutoff point".

"Air power replaces sea power."

"The right to long-range missile strikes will replace the right to close-range combat."

"And electromagnetic power was born."

"It's not difficult for us, as bystanders of Desert Storm, to draw these three conclusions."

"And these three important rights all share a common characteristic, namely, non-contact combat."

"At this point, I think I don't need to explain anything more specific." Chen Mo smiled and said, "Many people don't know where informatization and integration are specifically manifested."

"If you don't know which direction to take in the future, you might as well try to align yourself with these three important powers and the characteristics they produce."

"Now that we understand the essence of non-contact combat, it becomes clear that another unified theory objectively exists. For example, integrated coordination is merely the early stage of informationization."

"In the later stages, breaking down the barriers between military branches and establishing joint combat groups is an inevitable trend."

"Everyone!"

"At that stage, the traditional mechanized, crawling army will completely disappear." "Airborne technology will become the core of building the army."

By this point in the preview course, many participants had basically understood the material.

Chen Mo used the post-tank era as the topic of his research, leading to the idea that in the future, the sea, air, land, space, and cyber forces would form a rapid joint reaction force, various missiles would form a fire support force, and logistics would form a stabilization force.

Traditional military branch divisions will gradually fade from the historical stage.

Only individual soldier functions remain.

It must be said that Chen Mo's speech was indeed quite bold for the early 21st century.

Because this is not a problem that can be considered at present; it is no exaggeration to call it a strategic direction for the next century.

Whether it's a joint battle group or the post-tank era, both represent a system model that goes a step further than combined arms operations.

Sparse applause broke out from the group of senior professors, but not many people actually clapped.

As I said before, academic issues, no matter who raises them, are unlikely to be accepted by everyone.

While some professors find it reasonable, others naturally consider it alarmist.

It would be impossible for a field army to develop to the sixth stage, the scale of a joint task force, in less than ten or twenty years.

And over such a long period of time.

Who can guarantee that no new ideas will be introduced?

"Battalion Commander Chen, I personally acknowledge that your talk of continental military doctrine will gradually change with reforms, but isn't it a bit far-fetched to say that the army will disappear?"

One of the colonels from the Chinese training program raised a question from the audience.

He was deliberately making things difficult for Chen Mo. Anyone with a brain in the room already knew that the title the scholar initially presented was just a pretext.

But trouble is unavoidable; any teacher standing on the podium will face similar situations.

When faced with the questioning, Chen Mo first glanced at the other person's arm patch. When he discovered that the other person was from the 27th Army and the arm patch should belong to the Army Aviation Regiment directly under the army, he realized that the other person was from the 27th Army.

Chen Mo suddenly realized.

No wonder there were more than a dozen young colonels among the more than 300 people in this training program, and all of them stayed on.

So they're all from special units, either commanders of radar regiments directly under the army or commanders of army aviation regiments.

"Gentlemen, I have indeed said that continentalism will disappear, and I have also said that the army will disappear."

Chen Mo said with a smile, "But regardless of whether it's nonsense or not, I want to mention that many military units will decline in the future system changes, including even the airborne troops."

"Nonsense, how could the airborne troops be declining?"

The colonel of the Army Aviation Regiment spoke up again, saying that airborne troops are a branch of the Air Force and have nothing to do with their Army Aviation Regiment.

But he just couldn't stand the scholar talking about theory and then trying to criticize the paratroopers from another branch of the military.

"What's so great about the disappearance of military branches?" Chen Mo glared at the colonel: "With the advancement of productivity and technology, many outdated military branches are gradually declining, and this is an irreversible trend."

“Taking our field troops as an example, no fewer than seven types of troops have disappeared since their establishment.”

"Even more military branches have disappeared throughout history."

"Don't you all agree?" Chen Mo asked, his gaze fixed on the audience.

"What about?"

The colonel met his gaze without flinching.

"For example, in the era of cold weapons, the heavily armored cavalry, which dominated for thousands of years, was completely suppressed in the face of machine guns, barbed wire, and trenches, and completely withdrew from the historical stage after World War II."

"For example, buglers also disappeared twenty years ago. Even if there are some positions in the military now that are privately called buglers, are they still the same buglers as before?"

"Can anyone still play those hundred-plus horn scores? In the radio era, radar and walkie-talkies have replaced that job."

"Let's get back to the topic of paratroopers. Just now, a comrade said that paratroopers will not decline, which is nonsense."

"Yes, paratroopers, a young branch of the military, a strategic rapid reaction force, which has achieved some glory in the past."

"Historical large-scale parachute operations, such as Operation Market Garden, Operation Overlord, and Operation Crete, have all demonstrated the strategic significance of paratroopers."

"But at the same time, we should also note..."

"In an era of underdeveloped ground-to-air defense, the casualties of paratroopers during landings were still far higher than those of ordinary troops."

"The overall combat capability of a paratrooper division is only equivalent to that of an army light mechanized division."

"Today, if we continue to discuss the strategic significance of paratroopers, their rapid mobility, and their ability to penetrate deep behind enemy lines, is there still any practical value in it?"

"With the large-scale deployment of surface-to-air missiles and the effectiveness of various types of radar, the disadvantages of paratroopers will become increasingly apparent."

"If you don't believe me, let's take an example."

Chen Mo's lecture was tinged with a bit of anger. Seeing the army aviation colonel staring at him, he simply raised his hand and invited, "Comrade Regiment Commander."

"You just said you didn't believe that airborne troops would decline, so let me ask you, if you were to lead a reinforced airborne regiment to attack a mere armored regiment with only one battalion in the borderlands, how confident would you be of victory?"

"I?"

The colonel's expression froze when he was asked the question. The 27th Army had fought against the armored regiment and knew that the regiment's air defense equipment was the Red Arrow system, as well as a special reconnaissance and jamming vehicle for targeting aerial firepower, early warning radar, and reconnaissance and strike drones.

Using airborne tactics against armored regiments is tantamount to deliberately sending them to their deaths. The armored regiments probably wouldn't even need to surround the paratroopers; they could simply bomb the airborne aircraft.

"We're not confident of winning!"

"And what about adding the firepower of your army aviation regiment?" Chen Mo continued to press.

"you!"

The colonel, his face dark, carefully assessed the firepower of both sides, but ultimately shook his head: "I'm not confident of victory."

He's right. A single airborne regiment plus an army aviation regiment think they can take down the Devil City beyond the Great Wall? They're dreaming.
In terms of raw strength, isn't the 61st Division far superior to these two regiments?
Chen Mo could tell that the regimental commander was already very unhappy, so he didn't ask any further questions.

He then turned his gaze to the others.

"Gentlemen, I'm not bragging here."

"Among those present are battalion commanders of machine infantry, long-range rocket artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, motorized infantry, and radar. Do you think anyone could defeat the Blue Army battalion head-on if they led their troops to the borderlands?"

As soon as these words came out.

The more than sixty cadres present widened their eyes instantly as they stared at the scholar baring his teeth in front of them. They wished they could drag him down and beat him to a pulp right away.

That's infuriating!

You, a mere battalion commander, dare to challenge our more than sixty main force units?

Do you know how to write the character for "death"?
Despite their anger, upon closer examination, they realized that none of their units could claim to have a decisive advantage over the Blue Army in a one-on-one battle.

This reputation was earned through battle, and the prestige gained through hard work is something that cannot be compared to that of a battalion-level or ordinary regimental-level officer.

Chen Mo saw that no one responded.

Once again, he cheekily changed the slide projector's projection of "The Post-Tank Era" to "The Army Is About to Be Eliminated."

But this time, no one cursed anymore; they all sat there blankly, silent.

They understood the lesson.

The army refers to the people present. The field army has been developing, and the armored regiment has developed to the sixth stage, possessing a task force combat group.

If these units cannot keep up, they will gradually decline, just like the buglers and the paratroopers.

It's not necessarily the military branches that are declining, but rather the officers who represent those branches.

Chen Mo stood alone on the stage, using the same projector.

But among the more than sixty people in the audience, not a single one dared to object.

The army is indeed on the verge of disappearing.
This is a painful realization, but one that must be acknowledged.

(End of this chapter)