“并行作战”是任伊拉克战争期间曝光频率较高的新名词之一,指协调运用各种作战力量同时打击作战空间内所有目标的作战方式。与海湾战争、科索沃战争期间不同的是,美军在伊拉克开战的第二天就投入了大量地面部队,没有出现预料中的大规模、长时间先期空袭,而是陆、海、空、天、电几种作战力量同时从各个方向并行发起攻击。这种作战方式往往不给对手喘息的机会,在短时间内就能对其予以毁灭性打击,达到数倍于传统顺序作战的作战效果。与传统顺序作战方式相比,“并行作战”有几个明显的特点: “Parallel combat” is one of the new terms that have a high exposure frequency during the Iraqi war. It refers to the mode of operation that coordinates the use of various combat forces and simultaneously attacks all the targets in the combat space. Unlike during the Gulf War and the Kosovo War, the U.S. military put a large number of ground troops on the second day after its war in Iraq. It did not expect the massive and long-term airstrikes, but land, sea, air, air and electricity Several types of combat forces simultaneously launch attacks in all directions at the same time. This mode of operation often does not give opponents the opportunity to breathe, in a short period of time they can be devastating blow to achieve several times the combat effectiveness of the traditional order. Compared with the traditional sequential warfare, “parallel warfare” has several obvious features: