革命导师恩格斯认为,社会发展是军事发展的前提,军事发展是社会发展的必然结果。鸦片战争的失败,是晚清社会政治腐败,技术和生产力落后的结果。社会生活和生产力的落后,反映在军事上就是战略战术的落后。鸦片战争的作战双方,一方是犹处于传统农业社会的大清王朝的军队,另一方是已经实现近代工业化的英国 Engels, a revolutionary mentor, believes that social development is a precondition for military development and that military development is the inevitable result of social development. The failure of the Opium War was the result of the backward social and political corruption and backward technology and productivity in the late Qing dynasty. The backwardness of social life and productivity is reflected in the backwardness of the military strategy and tactics. Both sides of the Opium War faction, one is still in the traditional agricultural society of the Qing Dynasty army, the other is the realization of modern industrialization in Britain