Bill Gertz
China’s People’s Liberation Army is waging information warfare that is regarded as a key element of military power and crucial for battlefield combat, according to a report by an Air Force think tank.
“The PLA sees the ‘information domain’ as a domain of war unto itself, equal to the physical domains of air, land, sea, and space,” states the report by the China Aerospace Studies Institute made public this week.
Chinese hard power military operations are used to support information warfare operations.
“For the PLA, superiority in the information domain is necessary to seize and maintain battlefield initiative, and information dominance has become a prerequisite to being able to achieve decisive effects in any of the physical domains,” the report said.
By contrast, the U.S. military and those of other democratic states consider information “as the connective tissue that links and binds all of the other domains,” the report said.
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