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HOW CHINA ENVISIONS WAR WITH THE US & EXAMINING THE WORLD'S LARGEST NUCLEAR PROLIFERATORS, IRAN AND CHINA

1/24/2020

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“Unrestricted Warfare is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent through a variety of means.”


David Rennie, The Economist magazine in Beijing; writes the “Chaguan” column; in re: Artificial intelligence; the contest between the US and China. From the first Cold War: how adversaries can agree not to destroy each other: even when you don't trust each other at all, you can nonetheless discuss a new technology that could abruptly change everything, destroy everything. Now we have three, not two, parties: Russia, US, China.  Even during the Cold War, you could send an inspector to see what was being done; but no way to see an algorithm.  . . . Unenforceable compliance.  We’re left making a distinction: countries’ saying it’s best not to have this technology; but among major powers (not rogue powers), it’s possible for large countries to agree that biowar, for example, is unimaginably dangerous & stupid, just not worth having. . . .  The PLA is focussed on nonnuclear war.
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In 1999 the Chinese released a book entitled, Unrestricted Warfare. Commentary: “. . .  PLA doctrine. . . . has focused on developing a joint operation doctrine for fighting limited, high-intensity conflicts using high-tech weapons.”
  
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THE ART OF WAR RE-TRANSLATED

1/16/2020

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https://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Translation-Michael-Nylan-dp-B0816Z3L6G/dp/B0816Z3L6G/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
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WHY EURASIA MATTERS

1/13/2020

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https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Silk-Road-History-Central-dp-0691135894/dp/0691135894/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and the Mongols. In addition, he explains why the heartland of Central Eurasia led the world economically, scientifically, and artistically for many centuries despite invasions by Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Chinese, and others. In retelling the story of the Old World from the perspective of Central Eurasia, Beckwith provides a new understanding of the internal and external dynamics of the Central Eurasian states and shows how their people repeatedly revolutionized Eurasian civilization.


Beckwith recounts the Indo-Europeans' migration out of Central Eurasia, their mixture with local peoples, and the resulting development of the Graeco-Roman, Persian, Indian, and Chinese civilizations; he details the basis for the thriving economy of premodern Central Eurasia, the economy's disintegration following the region's partition by the Chinese and Russians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the damaging of Central Eurasian culture by Modernism; and he discusses the significance for world history of the partial reemergence of Central Eurasian nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union.


Empires of the Silk Road places Central Eurasia within a world historical framework and demonstrates why the region is central to understanding the history of civilization.
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HOW TO ASSESS CHINA'S ACQUISITION OF ISLANDS

1/13/2020

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The Conventional Wisdom on China’s Island Bases Is Dangerously Wrong
By Gregory B. Poling, War on the Rocks: “Last month, during a conference on China's maritime ambitions, I was asked a question I often get about Beijing's artificial island bases in the South China Sea. That question goes something like this: Couldn't the United States easily neutralize these remote outposts in a conflict, negating their value?"

Systems Confrontation and System Destruction Warfare
By Jeffrey Engstrom, Rand: "How the Chinese People's Liberation Army seeks to wage modern warfare."

South China Sea: Malaysia, Indonesia, And Vietnam Beat China At Its Own Game
By Panos Mourdoukoutas, Forbes: "Malaysia has joined Indonesia and Vietnam to beat China at its own game in the South China Sea (SCS): The use of lawfare to settle disputes."
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THE GREAT PROMISE THAT IS CENTRAL ASIA

1/11/2020

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HOW TO GET GRAND STRATEGY RIGHT

1/3/2020

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CSIS Bad Idea: Debating Grand Strategy
It is fitting that the last in our series from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on “Bad Ideas in National Security” should center on the role of ‘grand strategy’ in US foreign and military policy. Readers of history will recall that the pre-eminent grand strategy of the Cold War was ‘containment’ of…
CSIS Bad Idea: Assuming the ‘Small Wars’ Era is Over
By Alexandra Evans & Alexandra Stark, Breaking Defense: “Intended as a prudent reprioritization, the dramatic shift in demand for more “great power gurus” threatens to shelve the experience and institutional knowledge accumulated over the last two decades."
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By Barry Strauss, Strategika: "The Mediterranean Sea is today, as it has always been, a crossroads. The name itself testifies to that, as it means “the sea in the middle of the earth,” a Latin term reflecting an earlier Greek belief. We know better, or do we?"
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