It’s war. But not as we know it.
Decades of writings by China’s top tacticians reveal this to be so.
“National security leaders should look closely at what Chinese officials’ words and China’s military actions say about how the People’s Liberation Army might actually fight a war,” a US military academy analysis warns.
They say it’s a war already well under way. That means the start of any ‘conventional’ conflict will be murky and confused. And, even once the shooting starts, sowing doubt and disbelief will be a significant weapon in its arsenal.
It will involve police.
It will involve militias.
It will involve civilians.
And all will serve to pave the way for the People’s Liberation Army’s more traditional weapons to find its target.
It’s called the “Grey Zone”.
It’s the space between peace and war.
It’s where coercion, intimidation, propaganda and manipulation are at play.
“Democracies’ fear of escalation is a significant deterrent against the use of violent military options in the grey zone, and that is exactly the fear that authoritarian states … wish to instil,” wrote retired British army colonel Richard Kemp.
It’s about twisting democratic values – such as the rule of law – against itself.
“The PLA is engaging in irregular warfare today,” the West Point paper asserts.“China is employing lawfare to achieve strategic aims. The maritime militia is enforcing China’s sovereignty claims in the East and South China Seas against US partners and allies.”
And it has already weaponised international information flows and channels of influence, along with cyber, economic – and psychological – tactics.
“Russia and China plan on winning the Great Power Competition by undermining the US, sowing discord, and continuing a secret war until the positions in the world order are reversed,” an essay by US navy analyst Derek Bernsen argues.
Polarisation. Conspiracy. Hate.
They already exist. But a few well-placed social media posts and complicit “influencers” can nudge them in beneficial directions.
“Many elements of irregular warfare, such as psychological warfare, legal warfare, and cyberwarfare, are central to the PLA’s concept of information warfare and its theory of victory in a conventional conflict,” the Modern Warfare Institute analysis argues.
Beijing’s military has a name for it: The Three Warfares.
Public opinion. Morale. Legal processes.
All are manipulated to achieve Beijing’s ends.
Article is informatively interesting! It's frustrating to hear the USA gives any credence to China as related to in Article, in my opinion! IF we are aware of China's Tactical, Strategical, Psychological, Terrorist Germ Warfare implemented as reputed, and bullying other countries within the South China Sea, Good Lord, our War Planner's surely have simulated all scenario's needed to off-set China's actions, right???
ReplyDeleteNot impressed, even most out here could envision what it could or would take to bring China to it's knees, in my opinion! China is actually very vulnerable for destruction location wise than most understand IMO!! Being Righteous or having Righteousness is doing what is right, obeying the law or adhering to morals, Right? Well, not obeying our laws, morals, is if CCP thinks they can keep on bribing our Democrat's, blackmailing them, paying them off, stealing from us, manipulate the USA through bio-terrorism, threats covertly messaged by all description laid forth in Article; Then, it's in my opinion, most Americans realize this is NOT acceptable by the majority of the rest of this Nation they seek to control! We do not think well of our corrupted politician's compromising America while in bed with China, in fact why, since Clinton's, would USA do ANY business with a Communist Regime NOT in alignment with our Western Civilization, our Culture, morals, National Security, concerns???
The first stupid move by those in our Government that started selling us out apparently, IMO! So flanked by corrupted ones here, China meddling from yonder, and now constant attacks from China as they upped the stakes with Covid-19, committed premature deaths of the weaken immunity folks, IMO! Therefore, the moral righteous thing to do would be counter-attack...covertly, only better, and to sting more, is my suggestion! We gave them an inch, the little shi#s took miles, enough is enough. Set them back, it can be done.
Hopefully our Military still has some control over protecting USA?
If not, USA declines, as Christians rise up toward the day they know, it won't matter what goes on with Earth. Our Kingdom will be
Gloriously found in Heaven!