When COVID hit, I began hearing rumblings of a book called Unrestricted Warfare, written by 2 former Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) senior colonels & published by PLA
In short, it describes what war will look like in a post-nuclear, mutually assured destruction, age
1/17
In short, it describes what war will look like in a post-nuclear, mutually assured destruction, age
1/17
I read the book cover to cover and I thought you might be interested in some quotes/passages I highlighted, which I encourage you to read w current events in mind.
“the media has become an immediate and integral part of warfare”
2/17
“the media has become an immediate and integral part of warfare”
2/17
“China can pump propaganda into the American media while restricting American media’s access to the Chinese media landscape”
A non-military attack could “cause the enemy nation to fall into social panic, street riots, and a political crisis”
3/17
A non-military attack could “cause the enemy nation to fall into social panic, street riots, and a political crisis”
3/17
“The battlefield is next to you and the enemy is on the network. Only there is no smell of gunpowder or the odor of blood. However, it is war as before, because it accords with the definition of modern warfare: forcing the enemy to satisfy one’s own interests.”
4/17
4/17
Modern warfare is “impeding the enemy’s ability to wage war & to defend itself against a barrage of attacks against its economy, its civil institutions, its governmental structures, and its actual belief system”
5/17
5/17
“If one party is at war w another, & the other party does not realize it is at war, the party who knows it is at war almost always has the advantage & usually wins”(Tzu)
"social spaces such as the military, politics, economics, culture, & the psyche are also battlefields”
6/17
"social spaces such as the military, politics, economics, culture, & the psyche are also battlefields”
6/17
“The biggest difference between contemporary wars and the wars of the past is that, in contemporary wars, the overt goal and the covert goal are often two different matters”
7/17
7/17
“Precisely in the same way that modern technology is changing weapons and the battlefield, it is also at the same time blurring the concept of who the war participants are. From now on, soldiers no longer have a monopoly on war.”
8/17
8/17
“a defeat on the economic front precipitates a near collapse of social & political order. The casualties resulting from the constant chaos r no less than those resulting from a regional war, & injury done to the living social organism even exceeds injury inflicted by...war”
9/17
9/17
“financial war is easily manipulated and allows for concealed actions, and is also highly destructive”
“Can special funds be set up to exert greater influence on another country’s government and legislature through lobbying?”
10/17
“Can special funds be set up to exert greater influence on another country’s government and legislature through lobbying?”
10/17
There are “a number of other means and methods used to fight a non-military war…[including]…psychological warfare (spreading rumors to intimidate the enemy and break down his will); …throwing markets into confusion and attacking economic order; …media warfare ...
11/17
11/17
(manipulating what people see and hear in order to lead public opinion along); …fabrication warfare (presenting a counterfeit appearance of real strength before the eyes of the enemy);… (not to mention the cross combining and creative use of these means and methods)”
12/17
12/17
“in all future wars, in addition to the basic method of military strikes, the force of the media will increasingly be another player in the war and will play a role comparable to that of military strikes in promoting the course of the war”
13/17
13/17
“Ever since the Vietnam War, both the military & American society have been sensitized to human casualties”
“cultural infiltration, media propaganda, formulating & applying international rules, using UN resolutions,etc belong… more & more now as standard military means”
14/17
“cultural infiltration, media propaganda, formulating & applying international rules, using UN resolutions,etc belong… more & more now as standard military means”
14/17
“If we want to have victory in future wars, we must be fully prepared intellectually for this scenario, that is, to be ready to carry out a war which, affecting all areas of life of the countries involved, may be conducted in a sphere not dominated by military actions”
15/17
15/17
When at war w a powerful adversary, a country “must adjust its own financial strategy, use currency revaluation or devaluation as primary, & combine means such as getting the upper hand in public opinion & changing the rules sufficiently to make financial turbulence and..
16/17
16/17
...economic crisis appear in the targeted country or area, weakening its overall power, including its military strength.”
If “the United States would…have suffered heavy economic losses…such an outcome would certainly be better than a military strike”
17/17
If “the United States would…have suffered heavy economic losses…such an outcome would certainly be better than a military strike”
17/17
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