China's information war against the United States is technically clever, broadly applied and successful. The U.S. intelligence community has publicly stated this is a kind of war we do not know how to fight-yet the U.S. military developed and expanded the doctrine of information war. In fact, our military is at a disadvantage because it is part of a democratic, decentralized system of government that separates the state from commercial business. China's political systems are more easily adapted to this form of warfare, as ...
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China's information war against the United States is technically clever, broadly applied and successful. The U.S. intelligence community has publicly stated this is a kind of war we do not know how to fight-yet the U.S. military developed and expanded the doctrine of information war. In fact, our military is at a disadvantage because it is part of a democratic, decentralized system of government that separates the state from commercial business. China's political systems are more easily adapted to this form of warfare, as their recent land seizures in the South China Sea demonstrate. We call this annexation, when it is a new form of conquest.
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