《中国军事百科全书》第2版把“外国军史”作为一个独立的学科加以编撰,这在我国学术界具有开拓创新的意义。与战争史和军事思想史相比,军队和军事组织发展史的研究一直非常薄弱,特别是外国军史研究,无论是整体性和系统性,还是深度和广度都相当欠缺。《中国军事百科全书》第1版 The second edition of China’s Military Encyclopaedia, which compiled “Foreign Military History” as an independent discipline, is of pioneering and innovative significance in our academic community. Compared with the history of war and the history of military ideology, the study on the history of the development of the armed forces and military organizations has been very weak. In particular, the study of foreign military history, both holistic and systematic, is still lascivious in its depth and breadth. “Chinese military encyclopedia” first edition