Chapter 6 - Strategic Evaluation

With the continuous development of human military practice activities, strategic evaluation has become an
indispensable and important link in military strategic guidance, and has a significant impact on the
development process of strategic activities. Practice has proved that after entering the information age, the
role of strategic evaluation has further risen, and strategic instructors must pay close attention to it.

Section One: The meaning and role of strategic evaluation
Strategic evaluation is produced in the long-term military conflict practice of mankind. It is an objective
requirement for the implementation of scientific guidance on strategic activities. Its meaning and role
continue to develop with the practice of military conflicts, and present the trend of the professionalization of
evaluation of the main body and scientification of evaluation method, and diversification of evaluation
content.
1. The meaning of strategic evaluation
Strategic evaluation refers to the process of using scientific methods to conduct qualitative and quantitative
comprehensive evaluation of strategic activities, and make corresponding evaluation conclusions. It
generally includes pre-evaluation, stage evaluation and effectiveness evaluation.
In the military field, although strategic evaluation activities have long existed, they are mainly characterized
by qualitative analysis. It was not until the 1980s that due to the development of computer technology,
strategic evaluation began to move from static evaluation to dynamic simulation evaluation, and qualitative
evaluation to qualitative evaluation. The combination of quantitative evaluation and development has
resulted in the emergence of a strategic evaluation system that adapts to different evaluation tasks, and the
evaluation theory has also been greatly developed. A professional evaluation agency and a special
evaluation system have been established.