Unrestricted Warfare (1999)

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Unrestricted Warfare: Two Air Force Senior Colonels on Scenarios for War and the Operational Art in an Era of Globalization (超限战; Chāo xiàn zhàn: lit. 'warfare beyond bounds') is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗). Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means such as political warfare, lawfare, economic warfare, network warfare, and terrorism. Such means include using legal tools (see lawfare) and economic means as leverage over one's opponent and circumvent the need for direct military action.

Etymology .
Source of text .
Weaknesses of the United States .
Alternative methods of attack .
   Lawfare .
   Economic warfare .
   Network warfare .
   Terrorism .
Defense against unrestricted warfare .
Implications .

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