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What I Learned From the PLA’s Latest Strategy Textbook May 25, 2021 08:32 AM Age: 4 hours Image: The cover of the 2020 revision of the Science of Military Strategy, released in August 2020 (Source: Author’s records). Introduction Science of Military Strategy (战略学, zhanlüe xue) (SMS), a core textbook for senior PLA officers on how wars should be planned and conducted at the strategic level. This article compares the 2020 version of this book with its last revision, in 2017, and finds that the former contains new details on wartime political work, “intelligentization” concepts, ...

On April 13th, the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released [pdf] its annual threat assessment report. The report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent, and unvarnished intelligence that policymakers, warfighters, and domestic law enforcement personnel need to protect American lives and America’s interests anywhere in the world. “This assessment focuses on the most direct, serious threats to the United States during the next year. The order of the topics presented i...

Xinhua Infiltrates Western Electronic Media, Part One: Online “Advertorial” Content Publication: China Brief Volume: 21 Issue: 7 April 12, 2021 01:00 PM Age: 3 hours Image: A screenshot of the China Watch advertorial webpage hosted by Foreign Policy magazine (April 29, 2020) (Source: Foreign Policy). Introduction  For many years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s state propaganda apparatus has sought to expand its influence among foreign audiences as part of a broader effort to achieve greater “discourse power” (话语权, huayuquan) for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) i...

Special Forces to build ‘influence artillery’ for online campaigns February 18 1st Special Forces Command is creating an Information Warfare Center that will specialize in tailored influence messaging. (Staff Sgt. Joseph Tolliver/Army) WASHINGTON — To stay ahead of rapidly moving threats in the information space, 1st Special Forces Command is building an Information Warfare Center that will specialize in “influence artillery rounds.” Critical to Special Forces’ role is deploying to remote locations while still being able to effectively message portions of a population. The ...