Interesting to see how prescient a book published in China in 1999 was, written by two senior colonels in the Chinese military. It described how the plan going forward was “unrestricted warfare” not confined to the battlefield.
I couldn’t help but think of parallels in our own country that’s reflected in how warfare between conservatives and liberals has reached into every area that can be engaged, from corporations, to “lawfare”, to media suppression and censorship. We’re seeing unrestricted warfare here by the Left.
Published prior to the bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade, “the book has drawn the attention for its advocacy of a multitude of means, both military and particularly non-military, to strike at the United States during times of conflict: Hacking into websites, targeting financial institutions, terrorism, using the media, and conducting urban warfare are among the methods proposed....The author Qiao was quoted as stating that ‘the first rule of unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules, with nothing forbidden....The United States breaks [UN rules] and makes new ones when these rules don't suit [its purposes], but it has to observe its own rules or the whole world will not trust it.’”
An excerpt:
“This is warfare in the age of globalization. Although the boundaries between soldiers and non-soldiers have now been broken down, and the chasm between warfare and non-warfare nearly filled up, globalization has made all the tough problems interconnected and interlocking, and we must find a key for that. The key should be able to open all the locks, if these locks are on the front door of war. And this key must be suited to all the levels and dimensions, from war policy, strategy, and operational techniques to tactics; and it must also fit the hands of individuals, from politicians and generals to the common soldiers. We can think of no other more appropriate key than "unrestricted warfare."
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