Posted on 11/17/2021 10:35:35 AM PST by EBH
Underneath the headlines, though, is an approach whereby China seeks to leverage emerging technologies and innovative operational concepts—for both conventional and strategic operations—to become a leading military through an approach described as “intelligentized” warfare. According to the report, China “seeks to dominate technologies associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution” (p. 145) because it will help China become a world-class military. Below, we outline critical aspects of China’s military modernization efforts referenced in the report, focusing particularly on developments related to defense innovation and emerging technologies.
China believes that emerging technologies will shape and increase the speed of warfare, meaning future military success will require forces that are “mechanized, informatized, and intelligentized” (p. 89). The term “intelligentized” describes "the PRC’s concept of future warfare based on emerging and disruptive technologies, particularly AI” (p. 146). This includes intelligent technologies, systems, and operational concepts such as “attrition warfare by intelligent swarms, cross-domain mobile warfare, AI-based space confrontation, and cognitive control operations,” that facilitate information processing and decision-making on the battlefield.
China is also updating its doctrine and warfighting plans to incorporate these capabilities. China's Academy of Military Science (AMS) has a mandate to ensure “that the PLA’s warfighting theory and doctrine fully capitalize on disruptive technologies like AI and autonomous systems” (p. 148). Through an emphasis on emerging technologies, China seeks to become a “global innovation superpower” (p. 145).
These intelligentized capabilities are directly related to China’s potential pursuit of its strategic interests—namely, capturing Taiwan. While details in the report are limited, it states: “In 2020, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced a new milestone for PLA modernization in 2027 broadly understood as the modernization of the PLA’s capabilities to be networked into a system of systems for intelligentized warfare. If realized, the PLA’s 2027 modernization goals could provide Beijing...
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Oh fine, now we’ll have to learn to say “Skynet” in Mandarin.
Waiting for the DoD 2021 report that will describe and assert the total collapse of the US military by 2030....../s
I have wondered if our military is built to fight a WW II conflict and China’s military is built to fight a 2021 type of war....
Just like WW I was fought with Civil War Tactics with modern weapons which results in a slaughter in the trenches...
WW II completely changed the narrative, Carriers replaced Battle Ships, Tanks became lightening quick and air superiority carried the day....
The next great war will not be fought like WW II, it will be waged on multiple fronts, economic, biological, cyber, etc....I hope we are prepared but I’m skeptical...
It’s said “The loser in a war learns the lessons if he’s able to and wants to, the winner sees no compelling need to !”
if only we dint have to fight our OWN stolen/sold technology...
““In 2020, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced a new milestone for PLA modernization in 2027 broadly understood as the modernization of the PLA’s capabilities to be networked into a system of systems for intelligentized warfare.”
A mere 20 years behind the US.
Or China is a paper tiger being presented to us as the boogie man. China’s military is without any kind of veteran leadership and there is no reason to believe their hardware is anything but cheap chinese junk. Consider their new aircraft carrier: they don’t have any aircraft that can take off with a full tank of fuel and any ordinance.
We will not be prepared, it is in the nature of our system.
We recover quickly, unfortunately war has become ever faster.
And the leadership of the US military is what ?? Looking for white supremacy extremists...???
Seriously we were stalemated by a group of people running around in pajamas, sandals and carrying AK-47.....
Regardless of inexperienced China’s military is, they have their entire military all 2 million strong within easy distance of Taiwan, where is the US military to counter that ???
Spread all over the world...
How much stomach does the US have for a war with China when they sink one of our Carriers and take over 5,000 people down with it....my guess is not much..
What if China moves on Taiwan and Russia moves on Ukraine at the same time, we do not have the resources to deal with that....and by the time we might, it will all be over....
A modern DoD report would probably conclude that China’s military is weak because they don’t have ANY openly perverts at the top.
Oh yeah future technology is what we have to watch out for. And AI whatever that is. Anything to avoid having to address the armies and ships and aircraft and nuclear weapons they already have. “We planned and planned and nowhere did we foresee the possibility that China would take over Taiwan in less than a week.”
Does China have the resources to move those 2 million troops into Taiwan? No... Not enough amphibious ships.
Will Japan, South Korea, India, Australia do nothing and allow China to corner the world’s market in semiconductors by taking Taiwan (and TSM)? No... We will not be alone in standing up to China.
China is a paper tiger...
Were they a paper tiger during the Korean War ?? Besides who says they do an amphibious landing ?? They blockade the island and bomb it into submission and those other countries will only fight if the US engages 100% and I have doubts we will
Anyone who says a nation with a modern military with 2 million soldiers equipped with a modern navy and Air Force who is less than 100 miles from the battlefield is a paper tiger has forgotten history
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