Robert Steele on Chinese Irregular Warfare

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I ran across this guy reviewing books on Amazon. He's got some awesome ideas. He referenced this in one of his reviews and I thought it was interesting enough to share with you.

Subject: Chinese Irregular Warfare

1. Summary. The Chinese Irregular Warfare strategy appears to be vastly more advanced than our own, and consists of the juxtaposition of 7th Generation Electronic Warfare, and a juggernaut of Presidential-level agreements and penetrations Waging Peace across the entire southern hemisphere, using trade, immigration, and a new massive cultural outreach program, to gain ascendancy without fighting.

2. Electronic Warfare. We are running down details, and while those involved with the Vice President trip may already know, I believe it is essential for all US military leaders, both civilian and uniformed, to be aware of the following timeline of demonstrated capabilities (highly selective):
2007-02-05—Russian space station microchip failure
2007-02-25—Vice-President’s aircraft forced to land in Singapore, Chinese tarmac meeting
2007-03-25—Japanese Reconnaissance Satellite in operation since 2003 loses ability to see
2007-06-12—Russian space station loses all three redundant computers to precisely same outage
2007-08-30—B-52 armed with nuclear weapons forced to unscheduled landing
2007-09-07—Secretary of Defense computer system hacked into by Chinese
2007-09-23—High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) a top Chinese target
We have known for decades that Soviet and now Russian electronic emissions standards have been ten times more rigorous than hours. Now we know why. In light of this clear pattern, we must re-evaluate every military electronic failure in the last five years, and we must recognize that our oversight of vulnerabilities at the microchip and electronic outlet level, make offensive actions much more hazardous. We must also recognize that our commercial transportation and communication and cmputing capabilities are even more vulnerable than our military systems, and easily targeted in covert economic warfare.

3. Waging Peace. In comparison with the Chinese effort that is coherent, peaceful, sustained, and scalable, our own Public Diplomacy, Strategic Communication, and Foreign Assistance programs are pathetic. We are losing the total war for total peace. These are the major elements of China’s strategy:
• Old: Chinese business diasporas across Asia and especially strong in Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines, very strong in Argentina, growing stronger in former Portuguese colonies including Brazil, via operations from Macao.
• Old: Massive global student populations in the sciences, with a presence in virtually every major laboratory relevant to national security and the national infrastructure.
• New: Presidential-level push across the entire Southern Hemisphere, to establish trade agreements, subsidize processing and transport of needed raw natural resources, and facilitate the unrestricted immigration of Chinese nationals. Macao is base for accessing former Portuguese colonies.
• New: Substantive surge in cultural outreach that can fairly be described as three to five times better than ours, with free Chinese lessons, cultural centers 3-5 times better than ours, free constructions of headquarters buildings (no extra charge for the electronic monitoring grid that comes with each).
• Worst-case scenarios see us losing access and respect to exploding Chinese populations that move into majority status in Argentina and elsewhere around 2025.

4. Recommendations. Based on the clear and present danger of the Chinese successfully pushing America back from overseas and into further decline, I believe that we should establish an Undersecretary of Defense for Irregular Warfare and redirect $100 billion a year toward national and global education, national and global infrastructure, national and global information sharing and decision-support, and the virtual orchestration, against the ten high-level threats to humanity, of $1 trillion a year spent by foundations, the redirection of 25% of the $1 trillion a year spent by government from military to peace and prosperity programs, and $1 trillion a year in corporate migration toward green offerings.

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His writing is a little jargonistic and he likes to coin phrases but overall it's a good perspective that you don't see all that often.

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2007-02-05—Russian space station microchip failure
2007-02-25—Vice-President’s aircraft forced to land in Singapore, Chinese tarmac meeting
2007-03-25—Japanese Reconnaissance Satellite in operation since 2003 loses ability to see
2007-06-12—Russian space station loses all three redundant computers to precisely same outage
2007-08-30—B-52 armed with nuclear weapons forced to unscheduled landing
2007-09-07—Secretary of Defense computer system hacked into by Chinese
2007-09-23—High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) a top Chinese target
We have known for decades that Soviet and now Russian electronic emissions standards have been ten times more rigorous than hours.

When my dad was in the air force he was involved with guided missile systems. He would say with 100% certainty that no american missile contains anything that was made in china. No chips, no parts, no pieces...nada.

So sure, investigate the failures to make sure. But this guy's list of 7 or 10 or 20 failures is inconsequential when you consider the number of missions and all that shit. It's like saying there's a flaw in every Boeing plane because a few Airbus planes had problems.

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It's like saying there's a flaw in every Boeing plane because a few Airbus planes had problems.

Airbus is more like a Europeon Government Industiral Welfare Program than a plane.

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Originally Posted by 7960

When my dad was in the air force he was involved with guided missile systems. He would say with 100% certainty that no american missile contains anything that was made in china. No chips, no parts, no pieces...nada.

So sure, investigate the failures to make sure. But this guy's list of 7 or 10 or 20 failures is inconsequential when you consider the number of missions and all that shit. It's like saying there's a flaw in every Boeing plane because a few Airbus planes had problems.

I read that as a signal that Chinese capability in electronic warfare is more serious than what conventional wisdom says. "Failure" I think means that the Chinese were successful in disrupting normal operation through some means other than supplying faulty parts.