中級英語教程（簡體書）

《國防語言課程系列教材：中級英語教程》各單元均包括讀寫和視聽說兩大部分，具有較強的可讀性。讀寫部分選材新穎、注釋清晰，配套練習有對課文理解的考察，語言要素的訓練，也有軍事知識的拓展深化；結合視聽材料內容，設置了簡答題、判斷題、選擇題、填空題等難度適中、形式多樣的題型，旨在提高學員的聽說能力。通過學習，學員在掌握外軍知識、軍事術語、縮略語的同時，鞏固聽、說、讀、寫、譯等技能，提高崗位指向英語應用能力。《國防語言課程系列教材：中級英語教程》內容涉及戰略與戰術、特種部隊、軍事軟實力、非戰爭軍事行動、經典戰例、軍事基地、信息戰、軍事地理等

《國防語言課程系列教材:中級英語教程》具有較強的可讀性。讀寫部分選材新穎、注釋清晰，配套練習有對課文理解的考察，語言要素的訓練，也有軍事知識的拓展深化；結合視聽材料內容，設置了簡答題、判斷題、選擇題、填空題等難度適中、形式多樣的題型，旨在提高學員的聽說能力。通過學習，學員在掌握外軍知識、軍事術語、縮略語的同時，鞏固聽、說、讀、寫、譯等技能，提高崗位指向英語應用能力。

Unit One Strategies and Tactics
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A Thirty-six Stratagems
Text B The 33 Strategies of War
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

Unit Two Special Forces
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A U.S. Navy SEALs
Text 13 Green Berets
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

Unit Three Non-war Military Operations
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
Text B Aid and Trade Works for Humani-tarian Relief
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

Unit Four Military Soft Power
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A The Benefits of Soft Power
Text B From Conflict to Peacebuilding：The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

Unit Six Military Geography
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A Military Geography
Text B Battlespace
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

Unit Seven Military Bases
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A NATO in Development
Text B NATO's Role in Afghanistan
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

Unit Eight Famous Campaigns
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A D-Day Invasion at Normandy
Text B Persian Gulf War
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

Unit Nine Unconventional Warfare
PartⅠ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A Unconventional Warfare： Historical Background
Text B The New Threat of Unconventional Warfare
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

Unit Ten Information Warfare
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Activities
Part Ⅱ Reading-centered Activities
Text A Information Warfare： An introduction
Text B Armoured Warfare
Part Ⅲ Additional Theme-related Activities

United States policy has been to let the planning for our conventional forces be determined primarily by the requirement for fighting a war centered in Europe, in whichNATO forces would be attacked by the Warsaw Pact. This emphasis recognized that Soviet military forces were concentrated in Central Europe. Concentrating on the need to be strong in the center led to the assumption that if the Alliance could meet this greatest threat, it could counter lesser threats.
In reviewing the defense of the Central Region, the balance of military power clearly favours the Warsaw Pact. NATO's forces are now so thinly deployed along the central front that a sustained defense in depth is not possible. The main forces of the Central European Command are Allied Air Forces Central Europe （AAFCE） , the Northern Army Group （NORTHAG）, and the Central Army Group （CENTAG） with their associated Allied Factical Air Forces. Additionally, the 2nd French Corps consisting of three divisions is stationed in the Federal Republic of Germany （FRG） under the terms of a Status of Forces Agreement. Should France commit these forces, further reinforcement would occur.
Soviet presence is strongly obvious on the Northern Flank, where the Soviet Northern Fleet has dispersed from its home base at Murmansk to the Barents and Norwegian Seas.This establishes a strong threat in most of the North Atlantic, north of the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom （GIUK） gap. Allied convoy operations could seriously be impeded by the Soviets during any conflict on the Northern Flank. Rapid reinforcement and supply have always been the central defense problems in the north. The Soviet Naval expansion has threatened sea control since NATO's defensive positions in Norway are now behind Soviet maritime forces, The NATO base structure in the north is also thin.Security of the flank depends on the continued use of bases in Iceland and Greenland.
NATO's Southern Region is the largest area in Allied Command Europe （ACE）covering almost half a million-square miles, including the strategically importantMediterranean, and the nations of Greece, Turkey and Italy. The Southern Flank is alsoimportant because it is linked geopolitically to the Middle East. The U.S. 6th Fleet ischarged with supporting Greek and Turkish land forces in this region.
Turkey is of critical importance to the defense of the Southern Region. In addition to sharing a land border with the Soviet Union, Turkey controls the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. Controlling these straits and airspace in this region severely constrains Soviet Naval power.