U.S. Intelligence translation of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army military tactics books
Pentagonal ring 2 Washington Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies to obtain and translate a Chinese military books, to study the
PLA's information warfare program. Reported, this called "information warfare theory," the book said that Beijing will give priority to
developing the use of computers and electronic warfare weapons, the ability of high-tech war on U.S. intelligence and military experts to
study the Chinese military thought and secret military program offers valuable clues.
Reported, this called "information warfare theory," published in 2007, similar to other works with the same public offering of such books are
usually less, they may become the United States intelligence agencies and military experts to explore the PLA and the Chinese military
thinking military plans of the clues.
The book pointed out that the high-tech information warfare is the military reform in China "core", which is also known as "information
warfare" - the U.S. military called it a "Revolution in Military Affairs." It includes a variety of weapons and intelligence and advanced
command - control systems, mobile and combined armed forces of the joint type. Reported that the main characteristics of China's information
warfare is "freely switch between offensive and defensive", "attack the enemy's deadly goals" and "rapid and flexible mobility and real-time
response."
In addition, the book also pointed out that outer space is the information warfare of the "commanding heights", perhaps alluding to the
gradual increase of China's "anti-satellite" capability. Moreover, the Chinese army electronic warfare, network warfare and psychological
warfare, as a high-tech war, "the main battlefield." The main technology of China's information warfare include the radar, optical
surveillance, computer network warfare, and voice recognition expertise.