冷战结束后,美国陆军面临大幅度裁军,但其所肩负的任务却更为多样化和全球化。美国军事战略从针对原华约的“遏制战略”转变为对付地区冲突、核扩散等多种威胁,提出要立于同时打赢两场发生在重大地区冲突中的战争。如何在编制规模大大缩小的情况下继续保持战场上的优势,成为摆在美国陆军面前的迫切问题。海湾战争使美国陆军领导层看到了信息在战争中发挥的巨大作用。美陆军便把“信息技 After the Cold War, the U.S. Army faces substantial disarmament, but its tasks are more diversified and globalized. The U.S. military strategy has been transformed from the “containment strategy” aimed at the original Hua-yu to threats such as regional conflicts and nuclear proliferation and proposed to stand at the same time to win two wars that took place in major regional conflicts. How to continue to maintain the superiority on the battlefield under the circumstance of drastically reducing its size has become an urgent issue facing the U.S. Army. The Gulf War saw the leadership of the United States Army as having seen the tremendous role that information played in the war. The United States Army put "information technology