25 Mar 2011
News comes to us this month of preparations for war in China.
“The [People’s Liberation Army] had fielded an impressive digital operations command of more than 60,000 troops. Each of its seven military regions had a computer warfare regiment of more than 4,000 soldiers… But the greatest asset held by the PRC in this area was its Information and Communications Operations Institute (ICOI), set up on a research park campus in suburban Beijing… Reporting directly to the Central Military Commission but with links to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the ICOI had at least 15,000 staff members and was essentially the national hackers lab.”
Hello! What’s this? It’s one of the most entertaining military strategy papers you could want to read: an imaginary history of China’s all-out cyberwar against the United States in 2020.
“Blown to Bits: China's War in Cyberspace, August-September 2020,” has just been published in the U.S. Air Force journal Strategic Studies Quarterly. Non-subscribers get it here: http://bit.ly/BBpanicnow
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