内容简介
本书内容涉及美军和其他主要北约成员在军事变革中最新的作战观念、未来太空战、战区导弹防御、C4ISR一体化、信息战、海陆空军的最新军力介绍、最新电子对抗手段、战场敌我识别系统、隐形技术、精确制导武器等。全书共设22个单元，每个单元配有一篇课文和一篇课后阅读文章，其中课文后附有生词表和练习，练习包括了英语口语训练、阅读理解、难句翻译等。最后，附录包括总词汇表和美军大型军事武器装备英汉缩略语以及部分代码。
本书适合军事院校高年级学生使用，也适合军队干部培训人员使用。对研究西方军事的我军指挥和科研人员，本书也是一部有用的参考书。
目录
Unit 1
U.S. Military Transformation
Extra Reading Challenges，Counter-challenges and Readiness Assessment
Unit 2
U.S. Plan for Sustaining the Strategic Space Advantage（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading U.S. Plan for Sustaining the Strategic Space Advantage（Ⅱ）
Unit 3
Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decision-making（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decision-making（Ⅱ）
Unit 4
U.S. Theater Missile Defense（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading National Missile Defense（NMD）
Unit 5
U.S. Theater Missile Defense（Ⅱ）
Extra Reading Introduction to New Cruise Missiles
Unit 6
Today and Yesterday of the U.S. Navy（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading Today and Yesterday of the U.S. Navy（Ⅱ）
Unit 7
Command System and Operational Capabilities of the U.S.Air Force（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading Command System and Operational Capabilities of the U.S. Air Force（Ⅱ）
Unit 8
USSOCOM Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century
Extra Reading Force Multiplier for Special Operations
Unit 9
Precision Guided Weapons
Extra Reading U.S.Army's Plan for Improving the Readiness and Availability
Unit 10
Analysis of American Information Warfare
Extra Reading Cyber-terrorism
Unit 11
Network Attack-oriented Intuition and Reasoning
Extra Reading Hacker Attacks Hitting Pentagon
Unit 12
Platforms of Information Warfare（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading Platforms of Information Warfare（Ⅱ）
Unit 13
U.S. Space Reconnaissance（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading U.S. Space Reconnaissance（Ⅱ）
Unit 14
New Stealth Technologies
Extra Reading Modern Electronic Countermeasures
Unit 15
Organizational Arrangements and Functions of U.S. Military Intelligence（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading Organizational Arrangements and Functions of U S. Military Intelligence（Ⅱ）
Unit 16
U.S. Counterintelligence Strategy
Extra Reading Intelligence Capability of the European Union
Unit 17
Development of the Joint Intelligence Center（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading Development of the Joint Intelligence Center（Ⅱ）
Unit 18
Fratricide Prevention＆Combat Identification（Ⅰ）
Extra Reading Fratricide Prevention＆Combat Identification（Ⅱ）
Unit 19
Joint Logistics in the Future
Extra Reading Acquisition for the Information Age
Unit 20
Military Weapons for Future Space Warfare
Extra Reading Future Space Warfare in Perspective
Unit 21
Future Combat System
Extra Reading United States Army Military Readiness
Unit 22
New Kill Chains and Weapons in the Near-future Warfare
Extra Reading Operational Risks Versus Concepts of Operation
AppendixⅠ Vocabulary
AppendixⅡ English-Chinese Abbreviations and Codes for Major U.S. Military Weapons
