First, extensive - the battlefield range is vast, the front and rear boundaries are unclear, large-scale engagements affect the entire territory of the two sides of the war and outer space;

Second, variable - the battlefield situation is intricate and complex, the situation is ever-changing, the struggle for the battlefield initiative is fierce, and the demand for rapid response is even higher;

Third, intersectional - the battlefield is intertwined, and the battle lines are blurred. ambiguous, complex engagements will be carried out at multiple levels;

Fourth, three-dimensional - the battlefield of the three-dimensional prominence of the air, sea, under the sea, the ground, outer space operations at the same time or staggered;

Fifth, destructive - firepower, destruction, consumption, the complexity of the various guarantees;

Sixth, decentralized - the army to further evacuate the configuration, combat Action will be manifested as a large corps under the unified control of the group dispersed independent combat;

Seventh, mobility - the army's mobility, the possibility of increased encounters;

Eighth, continuity - the battle fighting gaps to shorten, breaking the boundaries of day and night. Some emphasize electronic warfare, some more "fast-paced," some focus on political and technological factors, and some focus on the impact of economics on modern warfare.

Expanded:

The predominance of modern combat tools or weapons using high science and technology takes into account the objective fact that there is no obvious fading line between the stages of development of weapons, and that often several generations of weapons and several stages of development of weapons **** each other.

The so-called modernized conventional war, mainly differentiated from nuclear weapons war, because from 1945 the United States after the use of two atomic bombs, there has been no instances of nuclear war, since that time the war conducted since then, are modernized conventional war, but does not exclude the threat of nuclear weapons under the conditions of the war.

The application of the world's new technologies in the war will revolutionize the weapons system, army structure, war methods, command means and war styles and other aspects. Transformation of conventional weapons with high-tech science and technology, so that tanks, aircraft, artillery, ships, etc. mounted on the wings of modernization, among the forest of new technologies, compared with the Second World War or earlier weapons used by the great progress.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Modern Warfare