Jiang Yan Hai placed considerable importance on this regiment of Special Forces. In various simulated battles, he had discovered that when carrying out certain missions, the information advantage brought by Special Forces could enable rear-echelon long-range weapons such as missiles, artillery, and even rockets to play an enormous role.
It was not that conventional forces such as armored units were useless, but by the time they deployed, victory was often already seventy to eighty percent assured.
Modern warfare rarely saw the kind of evenly matched frontal clashes common in World War II. The large-scale flanking maneuvers and support operations of that era rarely occurred in modern warfare.
Unless both sides had exhausted all their long-range weapons and air forces, but that was practically impossible.
Those things had not even been fully exhausted during World War II, let alone now.
Modern artillery support could easily reach dozens of kilometers. With base-bleed extended-range shells, even 155mm heavy artillery could fire dozens of kilometers.
At that range, there was no way they would refrain from attacking the enemy's armored forces and simply send their own armor straight in.
That was why the combat strength of Special Forces, who were the first to enter and the last to leave the battlefield, was so important.
This was also why every country worked so hard to develop Special Forces. Of course, other branches were advancing rapidly as well. Looking at the wars that had occurred in modern times, all had been fought through air-ground coordination. Whoever possessed absolute air superiority could at least destroy the vast majority of the enemy's ground strength.
If one held the upper hand in Information Warfare, there was naturally no need to send Special Forces into the field. Missiles, bombs, and artillery could simply scour the ground. But if both sides