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Look for the 2020 Release here at Amazon.com. COMING SOON. ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION The Academy of Military Sciences of the People's Liberation Army of China issued a revised edition of its SECRET book The Science of Military Strategy (SMS) in 2013. A Chinese-language copy was obtained by Secrecy News, but I have not found an English language copy, so I decided to translate it into English myself. I am not a scholar of the Chinese language, but hopefully you will excuse my illiteracy as this is the only English version available. I believe the translation is faithful to the original, however I have taken some poetic license in order to improve the readability. Some of the colloquial expressions such as two legged losers (page 210) and use of a private white hair to attack and defend the network (page 196) went completely over my head, so I didn't make any attempt to edit them. Also, I believe the reference to a J-weapon means stealth aircraft. I decided to limit the translated text on any given page in the original text to the same numbered page in this book. So, if you are unsure of the meaning of some of my edits - and, you happen to be a Chinese scholar - you will know what page to look for in the original Chinese edition. Here are a few quotes from the book: Directing the modern warfighter, information is transformed from a supporting element to a leading element that dominates material and energy. The military information system replaces the mechanized combat platform and becomes the center and multiplication of combat effectiveness. Future warfare may first attack enemy defense from space and cyberspace. At the beginning, grabbing the right to control the system and dominate cyberspace will become a way to gain comprehensive control of the battlefield and defeat the enemy. This is essential. Information warfare stresses more time control, more time-effectiveness. The informatization of war is a means to speed up the war and shorten the war process offers unprecedented possibilities. There is a living force in the battlefield where unmanned, invisible and silent combat platforms and combat weapons will be increasingly at war. Use of these weapons in the field which will surely bring about changes in combat theory, combat style and even war formation and spark a new round of revolutionary structural changes. At the last minute I decided to also include the text of China's Military Strategy that was released by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China in 2015. You will find that at the end of this book. It provides additional context to the 2013 document and should further clarify some of the meaning. Speaking about the Chinese language version of this book and the Science of Campaigns (2006), a team of authors from RAND Corporation who worked on a 2015 report stated: To the best of our knowledge, these are the most authoritative publicly available sources on Chinese military thinking about the campaign level of warfare. For more titles on China's military, visit usgovpub.com

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