新军兵种的诞生与武器装备的发展和作战环境的变化密切相关。随着人类社会开始由工业时代向信息时代过渡,军队武器装备的信息化程度越来越高,战争形态也正由机械化向信息化转变。美军敏锐地发现,人类战争的空间被前所未有地扩大了,新的敌我对抗领域和对抗手段层出不穷。为适应这种认识,美军曾先后提出“非对称作战”和“基于能力发展”等理念。同时,美军认为作战单元的建设必须冲破传统的桎梏,顺应时代的发展,按照未来战争的需要,设计、组建新型部队。军事变革中,美军积极创建的新型部队主要由信息战部队和航天部队。 The birth of the new army is closely related to the development of weapons and equipment and the changes in the operational environment. With the transition of the human society from the industrial age to the information age, the degree of informatization of the military’s weaponry and equipment is getting higher and higher, and the war pattern is also being transformed from mechanization to informationization. The U.S. military is acutely aware that the space for human war has been expanded as never before and that new fields of confrontation between enemies and ourselves and countermeasures are emerging in an endless stream. In order to adapt to this understanding, the U.S. military has successively proposed the concepts of “asymmetric warfare” and “based on capability development.” In the meantime, the U.S. military believes that the construction of combat units must break the tradition and conform to the development of the times and design and establish new units in accordance with the needs of future wars. In the course of military changes, the new force actively created by the U.S. military consists mainly of information warfare units and space forces.