This is how China prepares for the information war
According to an internal PLA report, the People's Liberation Army of China plans to conduct extensive non-kinetic warfare operations in any future conflict with the United States. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
According to an internal PLA report, the People's Liberation Army of China plans to conduct extensive non-kinetic warfare operations in any future conflict with the United States.
The 438-page report , "Lectures on Joint Campaign Information Operations," was translated and published by the Air Force's China Aerospace Studies Institute and reveals the "information domination" search strategy on enemies as an important weapon that will be a key factor in determining victory or defeat in battle.
"The manifested forms of joint campaign intelligence (IO) operations are mainly: electronic warfare, network warfare, intelligence warfare, psychological warfare, physical destruction warfare," the 2009 report states.
"Among them, electronic warfare and network warfare are the main forms of IO."
The PLA's information warfare tactics are foreign intelligence operations borrowed in recent wars, primarily US operations in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.
The goal of information warfare is to take over and control the "power of information" by damaging the information systems of enemies, the report said.
As the US military has demonstrated in the past, the PLA plans to launch electronic attacks, conduct computer network warfare, conduct psychological warfare, and employ military deception. The attacks will seek to influence, damage, disrupt and deprive the enemy of its human and automated military decision-making.
At the same time, information warfare will require the protection of PLA systems from foreign electronic and network attacks.
The conflicting targets will be radar and communication nodes on land, sea, air, cyberspace and in space.
"Electronic attack mainly includes electronic jamming, radiation weapon attack and special information warfare weapon attack and emphasizes more the weakening and damage of information transmission and gathering links and the targets are mainly all kinds of electronic information systems such as early warning detection systems, command and control systems and communication systems, ”the report states.
"Network attack mainly includes information interruption, network infiltration and virus attack and mainly damage the enemy's information management by searching for" loopholes "and" backdoors "of the network and the focus is mainly on network-type information systems. "
"The psychological attack mainly includes psychological propaganda, psychological deception and psychological threat."
The Chinese war will also combine and integrate both information warfare and traditional kinetic warfare.
The report reveals how the PLA is integrating peacetime and wartime intelligence operations used in both the military and civilian sectors.
The information war “is boundless and without borders, intangible and formless, and present in every moment; and the dividing line in peacetime and in wartime tends to blur, so that the strengths of information in peacetime and wartime are always present, ”the report states.
But is this really a revelation from a strategic point of view so disconcerting? Or is it just another example of a propaganda war between China and the United States ?
In fact, most of the so-called revelations of this report are already extensively contained in the famous essay by Chinese colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui “War without limits. The art of asymmetrical warfare between terrorism and globalization ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-come-la-cina-si-prepara-alla-guerra-informazione/ on Sat, 30 Oct 2021 08:45:25 +0000.