ASSYMETRY AND THE HEIRS OF SUN-TZU<\/b><\/p>\n
Also in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday is a series of excerpts from _ Unrestricted Warfare_<\/b> by Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiagsui of China’s PLA examining how the first Gulf War required that all other states throw out the rule book vis-avis the United States. This book, published in 1999,<\/b> is apparently not yet available in English, was translated by the CIA for the agency’s Foreign Broadcast Service. The commentary is eerily prescient of what would happen on 9\/11 yet fits fully within the Chinese strategic philosophy for those familiar with the writings of Sun-Tzu, Han Fei-Tzu, Mao ZeDong and _The General Mirror for the Aid of Government. My excerpts of the Trib’s excerpts of the CIA’s excerpts of _Unrestricted Warfare__<\/b><\/p>\n
” There is nothing in the world today that cannot become a weapon ”<\/p>\n
” We believe some morning people will awake to discover with surprise that quite a few gentle and kind things have begun to have offensive and lethal characteristics ”<\/p>\n
” The appearance of precision-kill weapons is a turning point “<\/b><\/p>\n
Of Bin Laden, after the USS COLE and Embassy bombings in Africa :
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” The American military is naturally unprepared to deal with this type of enemy”<\/p>\n
Mostly the weaker side selects as its main axis of battle those areas or battle lines where its adversary does not expect to be hit…..always a place which will result in a huge psychological shock to the adversary “<\/b><\/p>\n