Unrestricted Warfare Mike Rappaport

Max Boot, guest blogging at VC, writes:

Two colonels of the Chinese People s Liberation Army envision unrestricted warfare encompassing not only traditional force-on-forceencounters but also financial warfare (subverting banking systems andstock markets), drug warfare (attacking the fabric of society byflooding it with illicit drugs), international law warfare (blockingenemy actions using multinational organizations), resource warfare(seizing control of vital natural resources), even ecological warfare(creating man-made earthquakes, tsunamis, or other disasters). In aclever bit of ju-jitsu, many of these strategies turn the strengths ofInformation Age countries against them. Al Qaeda is pursuing similarstrategies.