the constant skeptic

courtesy of China Confidential:

“China is practicing a form of low-intensity “Unrestricted Warfare”
against the United States, as shown by its alarming anti-satellite test
of January 11.

Unrestricted Warfare is the English title of an
influential 1999 book on military strategy authored by two Colonels in
the People’s Liberation Army, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. The book
argues that countries can defeat technologically superior foes through
deployment of an unlimited array of unconventional means rather than
through direct military confrontation. Methods include terrorism–the
book predicted the use of hijacked airplanes as flying
bombs–propaganda, international law, or “lawfare,” and information
warfare.

“To cripple or destroy the enemy’s information system
would drastically degrade the enemy’s combat capabilities by making it
blind, deaf or paralyzed,” the authors assert.

China’s use of a
missile to destroy one of its own, low orbiting, obsolete,
refrigerator-sized satellites is a stunning information warfare test.
But, in line with the strategy of Unrestricted Warfare, the explosion
that created a huge, dangerous debris cloud that will last a quarter
century or more is also a test of US nerve and will. Beijing is betting
that the proverbial Cooler Heads will prevail–i.e. that the battered
Bush administration’s pro-China-no-matter-what wing, which is led by
billionaire Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, will effectively downplay
the significance of the incident instead of treating it as a wakeup
call to US policymakers and defense planners.

The Chinese reason
that with the US bogged down in Iraq and focused on nuclear arming Iran
(a Chinese ally) and nuclear armed North Korea (a Chinese vassal),
Washington is in no mood to confront the harsh realities of China’s
meteoric military and economic ascent. Exploiting opportunity–such as
the Islamist assault on the US–is a key underlying concept of
Unrestricted Warfare.”

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