美国未来学专家托夫勒最近撰文说:后近代社会“第三次浪潮”的特点是高度的计算机化,在这一时期,战争的形态将不同于以前任何时期。人们从美军和多国部队在海湾战争中的经验中得出的主要结论是:未来战争将不再靠数量取胜。 多国部队在海湾战争中实际上进行了两种形式的战争:一种是传统的战争,其特点是使用“第二次浪潮”时期的大规模杀伤武器;一种是近未来战争,其特点是使用“第三次浪潮”时期的有限打击武器。在今后一个时期内的战争,这两种战争形式 Toffler, a U.S. futurologist, recently wrote: The “third wave” of post-modern society is characterized by a high degree of computerization. During this period, the form of the war will be different from any previous period. The main conclusion drawn from the experience of the U.S. and the multinational forces in the Gulf War is that future wars will no longer win by quantity. In the Gulf War, the multinational force actually conducted two types of wars: one was a traditional war characterized by the use of weapons of mass destruction during the “Second Wave”; the other was a war of near future characterized by Use the limited strike weapon during the Third Wave. In the coming period of war, these two forms of war