When you examine UnRestricted Warfare (URW) a work published by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui of the Peoples Liberation Army, you will find that there are multiple modalities that can be used in this type of conflict. We have examined this concept and identified 15 modalities of UnRestriced warfare. Examining the URW construct, we found that cyber warfare is directly related to three of the fifteen modalities — information & media warfare, telecommunications & network warfare and technology warfare and is supportive of ever other modality.
The concept of URW brings to light alternative methods of attack that can be launched by a small group of individuals on anyone from anywhere in the world against a stronger and more powerful nation. There are no declarations of war; no uniforms — just inflicted damage on an adversary. The blind, sucker-punch attacks are not designed to control areas but rather to influence public opinion, political policies and the opinions of the mass population. When contemplating URW, it is important not to fall victim to singularity. It is uncommon for only one modality to be used in an assault or an attack. Multi-modal attacks will become the modus operandi of URW warriors.
The nature and characteristics of the threat that UnRestricted Warfare poses continues to raise concerns for military leaders, law enforcement and security experts around the world. The angst has grown to the point where subject matter experts will assemble on March 24–25 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) to discuss the strategic imperatives and identify integrated strategy, analysis, and technology options that enhance interagency cooperation to respond to four distinct modalities of attack-cyber, resource, economic and financial and terrorist threats.
UnRestricted Warfare represents the tactics of choice in the age of globalization. In URW domain there are no rule, no limits and nothing is forbidden. We can expect our adversaries to employ these modalities to wage integrated URW attacks that exploit their targets diverse areas of vulnerability. Nations must rapidly retool, retrain and reevaluate their defenses against each of these fifteen modalities.
THis is the new threat to the West & the US.
URW is the next Ongoing world war.
24/7 War ON all Fronts.
Must be Ready & have DoD able & ready or lose this war.
Then add terrorist strikes amid the above.
& triple Hacking assults on cybersystems.
This is the future of conflict. The bad news is the future is here today. QUESTION — could a foreign power be manipulating our stock market?
I doubt we get to blame another power for our economic woes, however don’t be surprised if some of the rogue regimes out there with stronger economies use some of that economic capital to manipulate weaker markets.
And don’t be surprised if most or all of those modalities get lumped together as terrorism.
Watch out. Don’t let that big chunk of sky hit you in the head.
>Watch out. Don’t let that big chunk of sky hit you in the head.
I think thats covered under 3) Enviromental Warfare
But Kevin is missing a whole pile of important one for instance:
16) Consultant Warfare — One of the greatest threats facing the DoD as we speak.
Not to mention
17) Pet Warfare
18) Customer Warfare
19) Bathroom Warfare
What I want to know is when I look at my self in the mirror each morning who’s to blame and how we are going to retaliate.
Yes, many of those tactics have been in use even before there were nation states, but it misses the point of what the book was trying to do, which was to broaden the outlook of Chinese miltary planners on how to deal with the U.S.‘s perceived strengths(in my humble opinion).
Good Morning Folks,
Is their anyone here old enough to have read this before. Welcome to” Mao’s Little Red Book 2.1″.
Anybody who grew up in the 60’s and had any political awareness what so ever has read “The Little Red Book”, it was a small book that came with a bright red vinyl cover, meant to be carried in one’s pocket and to read the inspirational messages of Chairman Mao, when ever he/she wasn’t involved in working for the people.
Towards the end of the 60’s a companion vol. came out by Cho En Lai called “The People’s War”. It wasn’t much of a seller, only a few dozen million.
It is said that “The Little Red Book was the most popular book of the decade with better then double the sales of all types of the Bible.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner
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TDS4S at March 3, 2009 01:58 PM
No, I dont think it is about how the Chinese will “attack” America!
I think it is rather more about how China is vulnerable to attack.
Both from Nation States, like America, but also (and more likely) from none nation state actors.
@ Oblat:
You forgot 20) PowerPoint slide warfare and 21) Warfare warfare.
But I guess 20) is part of 7) and 8), and 21) is part of 6). Or, maybe warfare warfare is “restricted” warfare, kinda. Seems “international law warfare” would be, too.
WADR, I think maybe someone needs to bone up on the perils of Aristotelianism, or excess categorization. Like, try drawing a Venn diagram of these 15 modalities, and see where that takes you.
Sometimes it’s better to use fuzzier logic, and not overthink the problem, if there is one.
And if there really is some massive, covert, unrestricted war between the US and China, what would you call hanging a lot of bad paper on them, and then inflating our currency via a “stimulus” bill to make it all worthless? Would that be modality 2), 4), 9), 10), 11), or 15)?
Would it be a masterstroke of pure genius, or just a Chinese fire drill?
Well it appears that the non-professional filter is not working on here. I hate when that happens!!! You guys need to grow up or go back to Facebook with the rest of the kids!
Carl, you could be right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tfRQIL8IKE
YOU FOOLS ARE arguing and the BOOK IS PUBLISHED ALREADY!!!! GO Read it!
URW concepts are not their own it is taken ancient Indian books / Text