China is using Unrestricted Warfare, we are programmed into restricted warfare. Unrestricted Warfare is preferable to restricted warfare. Chinese leaders have taken note of the U.S. military strategy and performance in recent conflicts. The Pentagon who is locked into a restricted form of warfare mistakenly believes this is a means solely for China to match our weaponry. #msg-3214699
The Chinese as seen in the following excerpt have not been studying only our weaponry but our behavior. They understand exactly how we will respond and are acutely tuned into the ‘frequency band widths understood by the American military’. Given that we are locked into the Israeli mentality of warfare makes us even more vulnerable.
Whether it be the intrusions of hackers, a major explosion at the World Trade Center, or a bombing attack by bin Laden, all of these greatly exceed the frequency band widths understood by the American military. http://ftp.die.net/mirror/cryptome/cuw02.htm #msg-2380195
The Chinese cannot match us yet but have instead put emphasis on how to effectively prevent intervention by superior US forces.
To achieve that, the Chinese might already have been developing a weapon that they cryptically call an 'assassin's mace'. Part of the 'assassin's mace', in my opinion, will be the use of our predictability against us.
The ‘assassin’s mace’ is very interesting. I think China using Unrestricted Warfare which would include the ‘assassin’s mace’ could attack and do serious damage before the Pentagon who is counting weapons catches on, but not before the election.
-Am
Michael Pillsbury, a Chinese linguist and defense analyst who has compiled two books of Chinese military writings for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, told the U.S.-China Commission last year that senior Beijing strategists, including Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin, believe they can create secret weapons known as the "assassin's mace" to give themselves a decisive advantage over the United States during any PRC assault on Taiwan.
"An assassin's mace weapon is something that is designed based on American vulnerabilities," Pillsbury said. "You study what would bring the Americans to their knees in a specific conflict, such as the American effort to … perhaps to defend Taiwan, and you make a list of the American strengths and weaknesses and you focus on the weaknesses in an attempt to develop so-called assassin's-mace weapons that will penalize the Americans at a key moment, and you, by the way, conceal these weapons. That's the heart of the assassin's-mace idea. It's not exposed until it's needed at a key moment on the battlefield."
Pillsbury found references to 15 such weapons in Chinese military writings. "They focus a great deal on aircraft carriers," he says. "It's a big topic in China. There's even an Internet Website where people put up suggestions about good ways to attack American aircraft carriers." Pillsbury then described a conversation he had with a Chinese general at a conference in the PRC in late 2000. "'You know, this is like James Bond.' I said, 'Really? What are you talking about? I don't understand.' He said, 'You know, in the James Bond movies, just when James Bond is almost dead, he pulls something out of his pocket and it kills "Odd Job" or someone. That's assassin's mace. That's a sha sho jian.'"
Also a potential assassin's mace are antisatellite weapons. Despite repeated warnings from the intelligence community during the Clinton administration that the PRC was seeking to acquire such weapons, the United States remained silent when a British company, Surrey Space Systems, signed a contract with the Beijing government in October 1998 to provide microsatellite technology.
U.S. role in Baghdad puts China on edge The Associated Press Monday, May 31, 2004
WASHINGTON The speed with which U.S. ground forces captured Baghdad and the prominent role played in Iraq by U.S. commandos have led China to rethink how it could counteract the American military in the event of a confrontation over Taiwan, the Pentagon says.
The Chinese also believe, partly from their assessment of the Bush administration's declared war on terrorism, that the United States is increasingly likely to intervene in a conflict over Taiwan or other Chinese interests, according to the Pentagon analysis.
"Authoritative commentary and speeches by senior officials suggest that U.S. actions over the past decade" have "reinforced fears within the Chinese leadership that the United States would appeal to human rights and humanitarian concerns to intervene, either overtly or covertly," said the Pentagon.
The assessments are in an annual Defense Department report to Congress on Chinese military power. The Pentagon took the unusual step of releasing the report late Saturday night.
The report said that China was rethinking the concept that U.S. air power alone was sufficient to prevail in a conflict - a concept it inferred from the 1999 air war over Kosovo, which involved no U.S. ground forces.
"The speed of coalition ground force advances and the role of special forces" in Iraq "have caused the People's Liberation Army theorists to rethink their assumptions about the value of long-range precision strikes, independent of ground forces, in any Taiwan conflict scenario," the report said.
Other aspects of the Iraq war have reinforced the Chinese belief that the long-range strategy of the United States is to dominate Asia by containing the growth of Chinese power, the report said. These include recent Pentagon decisions to base long-range bombers, cruise missiles and nuclear attack submarines at the Pacific island of Guam - moves related in part to the Iraq conflict.
"China's leaders appear to have concluded that the net effect of the U.S.-led campaign" against terrorism "has been further encirclement of China," specifically by placing U.S. military forces in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian nations, and by strengthening relations with Pakistan and India, the Pentagon analysis concluded.
Because China's leaders believe that their military forces are not yet strong enough to compete directly with the American military, they are putting more emphasis on preventing U.S. intervention. This includes development of what the Chinese call "assassin's mace" weapons, the Pentagon said.
U.S. officials are not sure what "assassin's mace" is, the report said.
"However, the concept appears to include a range of weapon systems and technologies related to information warfare, ballistic and antiship cruise missiles, advanced fighters and submarines, counterspace system and air defense," according to the Pentagon.
The report said that while the concept of "assassin's mace" was not new in China, it had appeared more frequently in Chinese professional journals since 1999, particularly in the context of Taiwan.
Beijing considers Taiwan to be Chinese territory and has threatened to take it by force.
In Beijing on Sunday, officials said that President George W. Bush had reassured Chinese officials that Washington would stick to its "one-China policy" toward Taiwan. Under that long-standing policy, the American government recognizes Beijing as the only legitimate Chinese government, although the United States also has pledged to provide enough defensive equipment to Taiwan to assure its security.
Bush's comments to President Hu Jintao of China, released by China's Foreign Ministry, appeared to be an attempt to soothe Beijing's anger over Washington's decision to permit the Taiwanese vice president, Annette Lu, to stop in two U.S. cities before and after a Latin America tour.
The Pentagon for several years has expressed concern at China's military modernization, especially its emphasis on deploying more shorter-range ballistic missiles that can strike Taiwan.
The latest Pentagon report also said that since it last reported to Congress a year ago, China's imports of armaments had increased by 7 percent in value. These include a $1 billion deal for 24 Russian Su-30 fighter aircraft.
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