INEW is a “systems-versus-systems” form of military confrontation on the 21st-century battlefield, dependent on space, cyber, and various information technologies.61 One objective is to destroy the enemy’s C4ISR, to blind the enemy and prevent enemy forces and commanders from communicating. But the PLA also wants to inflict battlefield casualties on an enemy force and to disrupt logistics, resupply, and personnel systems in the enemy’s homeland so that combat losses cannot be restored and the deployed force cannot sustain battle. As Dai Qingmin states: after the information attack succeeds in suppressing the enemy, the enemy’s plight of temporary ‘blindness, deafness, and even paralysis’ can be exploited for the quick organization of … Continue reading Larry M. Wortzel