China’s Information Warfare Plans?

Inside the Ring – Bill Gertz, Washington Times.

U.S. intelligence agencies have obtained a Chinese military book that will provide new insights into the Chinese military’s information-warfare plans. The book is being translated, but Inside the Ring obtained its table of contents, which reveals Beijing’s priorities for high-technology warfare using computers and electronic-warfare weapons. The 322-page book, “Information Warfare Theory,” was published in May 2007 and written by Wang Zhengde, president of the People’s Liberation Army Information Engineering University.

Like other military and Communist Party writings, such books are not often made public, and when they are, they provide U.S. intelligence and military specialist with valuable clues to the military thinking and plans of China’s secretive military. The book states that information warfare is the “core” of China’s high-tech military-reform efforts, which are referred to as “informationized” warfare – what the U.S. military has called the “revolution in military affairs.” It involves integrating various weapons and intelligence with advanced command-and-control systems and mobile, combined-arms forces…

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