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Chinese Military Watch “People Friendly” New War Intelligent Warfare
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Introduction: Here is a new Chinese concept of warfare following “transfinite warfare”.
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Hongliang Hou (Author)
- He is an associate professor at the National Defense University’s School of National Security Studies, a doctor of strategic studies, a major (equivalent to senior colonel), a core member of the 3rd Excellent Chinese Youth Education and Research Program of the National Defense University of China, a member of the Chinese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and a special guest on the TV program “Kouwudou”. 2004 published his academic book “The Intelligent War”. 15 military projects he has led or participated in. He has published more than 20 papers in important domestic and foreign military publications.
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In the future, wars will not be fought over the strength and performance of weapons, but over algorithms.”
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The death of so many people in retaliation for nuclear attacks has deterred wars until now.
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If unmanned weapons become mainstream, people will not die in wars.
- No combatants are taken prisoner or killed.
- the political cost of war will go down.
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In the past, each soldier was a unit of information processing.
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With the creation of long-distance, real-time information transmission methods, it has changed to a form where information is exchanged closely with the central command center and they work as one.
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Increased amount of information collected due to improved sensors, etc.
- Communication bandwidth issues
- Problems that human processing capacity cannot keep up with even if they are gathered in a centralized location.
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Software will support human information processing
- The difference in algorithm capability increases the number of drones that can be handled simultaneously by one person and the amount of data that can be used to make decisions.
- In this era, the “weapons capability gap” will be dominated by the algorithmic capability gap.
era of zero fatalities (injuries)
- In the 1999 Kosovo conflict, there were zero casualties on the U.S. side.
- The idea of zero casualties is gaining traction. - a flesh-and-blood person, because the political cost of fighting enemy robots and inflicting casualties is high.
- Wars are waged between opportunities.”
- Conquest and occupation are prone to casualties.
- Is occupation necessary to achieve political objectives?
- It is less expensive to frustrate the enemy’s will directly.
- Example: Killing of Bin Laden
- Scenario: remote assassination.
- Assassination by drone with no evidence left behind.
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Remote assassination operations directly address policy formulators, plan executors, and military commanders to quickly achieve strategic objectives and deliver a swift and powerful shock to those involved. While this makes remote assassination operations highly intimidating, the method can also lead to backlash and anger in the target country, potentially leading to further radicalization of domestic policies. In order to avoid this unfavorable situation, it is common for those who carry out such operations to use public opinion campaigns to damage the legitimacy of the current regime’s leaders, and only conduct remote assassination operations when the public has come to despise them.
Swarm Operation
- Operations with large numbers of small drones
- Easy to circumvent conventional defense systems
- Easier to maintain herds when individuals are destroyed
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If the major powers go to war with each other, retaliation with nuclear weapons is still a bad idea, so they will kill each other without being detected, like a remote assassination scenario.
- The Defense Ministry’s white paper calls it a gray zone situation.
- Mentioned in [transfinite warfare
- They might not mind doing it against a country like Japan that doesn’t have the nuclear retaliation capability.
- The Defense Ministry’s white paper calls it a gray zone situation.
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It is interesting that there is a name for creating a favorable public opinion on social networking sites: “public opinion poll” (public opinion warfare).
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You are assuming that the war is waged by a “state,” but if you have the money and technology of, say, Google, you could have the same remote assassination capabilities as a state, so the war could be waged by a corporation.
- I think they are better at fighting public opinion using social networking sites than the military.
Two years ago I saw a Chinese Robocon Drone’s Shooting Performance Decides Robocon Winner and thought it was cool to be recognized for technological innovation, but then I read this book and realized that this innovation is directly related to military power. - military-civilian fusion Policy
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