This Is How China Will Wage Cyber War

Fifth Domain: 3 ways China’s military could use cyber in war

A new report from the Defense Intelligence Agency provides insights in to how the Chinese military might deploy cyber capabilities in a future conflict.

The report, which provides an overview of China’s entire military, notes the People’s Liberation Army could use cyber capabilities to support military operations in three critical ways:

- Relying on cyber reconnaissance to better plan cyber attacks,

- Establishing information dominance in the early stages of a conflict to constrain an adversary’s actions or slow information warfare activities,

- Expecting that cyber will act as a force multiplier when coupled with conventional capabilities during a conflict.

The report also notes that China’s cyber capabilities could also focus on targeting links and nodes in an adversary’s mobility system.

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WNU Editor: One more reason to be very reluctant in adopting Chinese communications technologies in your infraastructure.