According to the 84-page report, co-authored by former National Security Agency China specialist John Costello and cyber security expert Joe McReynolds, the Strategic Support Force was created to bring together China's disparate information warfare capabilities that Chinese leaders believe will be decisive in future conflict.
"The PLA views cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare as interconnected subcomponents of information warfare writ large," says the report, "China's Strategic Support Force: A Force for a New Era.".
The two main subunits of the force are the Space Systems Department, that handles space warfare, and the Network Systems Department, that is in charge of both cyber and electronic warfare.
PLA cyber espionage groups, like the five PLA members indicted by the Justice Department for cyber espionage operations in 2014, were combined in the new force.
"Integrating the cyber warfare and elements of the former 3PLA and 4PLA is a crucial step toward fully realizing a long-held PLA theory of how best to fight information warfare known as integrated network and electronic warfare, which envisions the close coordination of cyber and electronic warfare forces in both capabilities development and operational use," the report said.
In addition to space and cyber warfare, the new force also is in charge of political warfare and subsumed the PLA's 311 Base, also known as the Three Warfares Base - the name for China's information warfare doctrine that utilizes psychological warfare, public opinion warfare and legal warfare.
"The Strategic Support Force demonstrates China's evolving understanding of how information serves as a strategic resource in warfare," the report concluded.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-strategic-force-gears-space-cyber-war/
"The PLA views cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare as interconnected subcomponents of information warfare writ large," says the report, "China's Strategic Support Force: A Force for a New Era.".
The two main subunits of the force are the Space Systems Department, that handles space warfare, and the Network Systems Department, that is in charge of both cyber and electronic warfare.
PLA cyber espionage groups, like the five PLA members indicted by the Justice Department for cyber espionage operations in 2014, were combined in the new force.
"Integrating the cyber warfare and elements of the former 3PLA and 4PLA is a crucial step toward fully realizing a long-held PLA theory of how best to fight information warfare known as integrated network and electronic warfare, which envisions the close coordination of cyber and electronic warfare forces in both capabilities development and operational use," the report said.
In addition to space and cyber warfare, the new force also is in charge of political warfare and subsumed the PLA's 311 Base, also known as the Three Warfares Base - the name for China's information warfare doctrine that utilizes psychological warfare, public opinion warfare and legal warfare.
"The Strategic Support Force demonstrates China's evolving understanding of how information serves as a strategic resource in warfare," the report concluded.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-strategic-force-gears-space-cyber-war/
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