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4 September 2024

Army Identifies China’s Emerging “Precision-Attack” Strategy

Kris Osborn

What if a missile “in-flight” uses AI-enabled sensing and data analysis to adjust in real time to vulnerabilities within enemy defense systems? Specifically, what if multi-domain sensors use AI to instantaneously adapt course or trajectory “in-flight” because new information is discovered in a matter of seconds or milliseconds? Perhaps a defensive perimeter is less fortified in a particular area, a “gap” in an enemies defensive radar aperture is recognized or previously undetected high-value targets emerge …the idea is that an attacking long-range precision missile could be redirected by advanced, AI-enabled guidance systems leveraging multi-domain sensor data organization and analysis?

These scenarios form the basis of what a significant new Army intelligence report describes as emerging Chinese Concepts of Operation regarding long-range precision attack . This Chinese tactic, or ambition, is identified in a detailed Army Training and Doctrine Command G2 intelligence assessment referring to what it calls China’s “intelligentized C2 and ISR structure.”

“The PLA is exploring longer range precision strike systems enabled by a robust, informatized (current) to intelligentized (future) C2 and ISR structure that enhance their anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities. These are tenants of the PLA’s core operational concept known as Multi-Domain Precision Warfare (MDPW),” TRADOC G2 told Warrior, referring to its published report … The Operational Environment 2024-2034 Large-Scale Combat Operations.” (US Army Training and Doctrine Command, G2),

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