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This book provides a framework for assessing China's extensive cyber espionage efforts and multi-decade modernization of its military, not only identifying the "what" but also addressing the "why" behind China's focus on establishing information dominance as a key component of its military efforts.
China combines financial firepower-currently the world's second largest economy-with a clear intent of fielding a modern military capable of competing not only in the physical environments of land, sea, air, and outer space, but especially in the electromagnetic and cyber domains. This book makes extensive use of Chinese-language sources to provide policy-relevant insight into how the Chinese view the evolving relationship between information and future warfare as well as issues such as computer network warfare and electronic warfare.
Written by an expert on Chinese military and security developments, this work taps materials the Chinese military uses to educate its own officers to explain the bigger-picture thinking that motivates Chinese cyber warfare. Readers will be able to place the key role of Chinese cyber operations in the overall context of how the Chinese military thinks future wars will be fought and grasp how Chinese computer network operations, including various hacking incidents, are part of a larger, different approach to warfare. The book's explanations of how the Chinese view information's growing role in warfare will benefit U.S. policymakers, while students in cyber security and Chinese studies will better understand how cyber and information threats work and the seriousness of the threat posed by China specifically.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Setting the Stage: China's Evolving Views of InformationChapter 2
China's Military: This Is Not Your Father's PLAChapter 3
Informationized Conflict: Maintaining Party Control amid the Information RevolutionChapter 4
Information Warfare: Waging Information Campaigns in the Next WarChapter 5
Information Operations: Putting Theory into PracticeChapter 6
Space and Information Warfare: A Key Battleground for Information DominanceChapter 7
Organizing to Secure Information DominanceChapter 8
Chinese Views of Future Warfare and Implications for the United StatesNotes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Dean Cheng is senior research fellow for Chinese political and security affairs in the Asia Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation.
Summary
"As a society that has revered learning and education for millennia, China has a long history of valuing information. As early as the 1980s, the People's Republic of China (PRC) began to pay attention to information technology."--Provided by publisher.
