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Summary: China has nothing to do with 911!!!
Review: They should not use this picture as the cover page!
I am sure, we, Chinese people don't want to take america as an enemy.
The problem is, some people is trying to push us!
The truth is not "China's Master Plan to Destroy America", but
"America's Master Plan to Destroy America"!
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Summary: Dark Side of China' Future
Review: This academic style book, written by two Chinese military thinkers, gives us in the west an insight into current Chinese military thinking about our common future. The concept of asymetrical warfare as described in this writing targets weaknesses within open western societies such as the US. The future of China is a China expanding to its historical boundries of two thousand years ago. This expansion will utilize diplomatic, economic, and military means. By 2010, a modern Chinese Navy will seriously threaten the United States. China, today funds the Russian military industrial complex having turned this Russian asset into China's military industrial complex. The concepts put forth here capture PLA thinking on a future war with the United States. It is the job of Chinese military thinkers to plan for a war with China's largest trading partner. All furure and past adversaries of the US have published words describing contray policy intentions towards our country such as Hilter's writings before WWII. We have ignored them at our peril. This work was reviewed in public in China winning kudos from the government. It has the blessing of the highest levels of the Chinese government. China used to rule Asia. China is using its wealth, stealth, and the blindness of the American people and politicians to reseek its historical position of strength in the South Pacific Oacean region. In the book, one concept of fighting the United States offered advises that everything must be turned into weapons, including jet planes and the internet. It talks about the embassy bomber ben Laudin as an ally in this war to destabilize the US. This book was published prior to 911. This book is an excellent insight into thinking that shapes the military of our largest enemy, right now.
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Summary: My review of Unrestricted Warfare
Review: This book is unworthy of two college sophomores, let alone "experienced" military men like the two alleged colonels authoring it. It is pretentious beyond description.It begins with semantic masturbation as the authors play games with the meaning and juxtaposition of words like "revolution", "new", "method" and "warfare". It is so boring I found myself skipping pages looking for some meat. I suspect the goal of this book is to have the west read it and conclude that the Chinese are a military joke. To take this book seriously would be to spend weeks microscopically examining every sentence for hidden meanings or shrewd military insight, where there is none. If this is the best military thinking to come out of China, America has nothing to fear. I suspect this is the conclusion they hope we will draw, thereby leading America to underestimate its enemy. Basically, I pronounce their attempt to be transparent propaganda. I'm sure the Chinese military has far better thinkers than the two doofus clowns who wrote this book. Once they are done masturbating over their tricky words, they start using the word "strategy" in all its forms over and over to make the reader think they know what they are talking about and that they are qualified "military experts". They begin each chapter with a meaningless quotation in order to appear learned and profound. In fact, it is profoundly meaningless. They are merely confused and self-delusional, obviously way too impressed with their own thinking abilities. They get into relating the exploits of Secretary of Defense William Cohen as if he was an important military expert. If they think America will continue to vote for traitors in the White House and to put incompetent bureaucrats like Cohen in the Cabinet, they are engaging in wishful thinking and misguided self-delusion. The American public is waking up to treason in our midst. I did think it appropriate to lump Osama bin Laden and George Soros in the same category; terrorists. Osama from a blood and iron viewpoint, Soros from a financial viewpoint. At least the authors can lay claim to a non-zero shred of perspicacity. Finally they end up playing numerology games, making tortured comparisons of military tactics to the "golden section", a Greek relationship that produces the number 0.618. They go on to "analyze" various battles and invent ways to produce the "magic" number to show why a strategy worked. As if references to classical Greece should validate their thinking and convince their readers of their premises. I expected them to start adding up numbers as they analyzed the letters of a general's name and their position in the alphabet, as having significance. They don't even make arguments for or against anything; they just ramble, ramble, ramble. This book reminded me of Mao's Little Red Book. Endless, profound sounding, boring generalities. Mostly this book is a monument to the authors' love of pouring out ponderous, boring words and rambling on forever saying nothing. They love meaningless but weighty sounding generalities. Their only claim to fame in predicting a useful strategy (there's that word again) is to advise modern warriors to "think outside the box". Well, duh! I think we concluded that after 9/11. They don't use that phrase but that's my one-line summary of this waste of paper. To think that trees had to die in order to publish this piece of vacuous stupidity! Granted, this book WAS written before 9/11, in 1999, so we should have heeded its advice when it came out. If this is "China's master plan to destroy America" we can all sleep peacefully tonight. I know I will. Buy this book if you have more money than brains. I'll sell mine to you cheap.
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Summary: My review of Unrestricted Warfare
Review: This book is unworthy of two college sophomores, let alone "experienced" military men like the two alleged colonels authoring it. It is pretentious beyond description. It begins with semantic masturbation as the authors play games with the meaning and juxtaposition of words like "revolution", "new", "method" and "warfare". It is so boring I found myself skipping pages looking for some meat. I suspect the goal of this book is to have the west read it and conclude that the Chinese are a military joke. To take this book seriously would be to spend weeks microscopically examining every sentence for hidden meanings or shrewd military insight, where there is none. If this is the best military thinking to come out of China, America has nothing to fear. I suspect this is the conclusion they hope we will draw, thereby leading America to underestimate its enemy. Basically, I pronounce their attempt to be transparent propaganda. I'm sure the Chinese military has far better thinkers than the two doofus clowns who wrote this book. Once they are done masturbating over their tricky words, they start using the word "strategy" in all its forms over and over to make the reader think they know what they are talking about and that they are qualified "military experts". They begin each chapter with a meaningless quotation in order to appear learned and profound. In fact, it is profoundly meaningless. They are merely confused and self-delusional, obviously way too impressed with their own thinking abilities. They get into relating the exploits of Secretary of Defense William Cohen as if he was an important military expert. If they think America will continue to vote for traitors in the White House and to put incompetent bureaucrats like Cohen in the Cabinet, they are engaging in wishful thinking and misguided self-delusion. The American public is waking up to treason in our midst. I did think it appropriate to lump Osama bin Laden and George Soros in the same category; terrorists. Osama from a blood and iron viewpoint, Soros from a financial viewpoint. At least the authors can lay claim to a non-zero shred of perspicacity. Finally they end up playing numerology games, making tortured comparisons of military tactics to the "golden section", a Greek relationship that produces the number 0.618. They go on to "analyze" various battles and invent ways to produce the "magic" number to show why a strategy worked. As if references to classical Greece should validate their thinking and convince their readers of their premises. I expected them to start adding up numbers as they analyzed the letters of a general's name and their position in the alphabet, as having significance. They don't even make arguments for or against anything; they just ramble, ramble, ramble. This book reminded me of Mao's Little Red Book. Endless, profound sounding, boring generalities. Mostly this book is a monument to the authors' love of pouring out ponderous, boring words and rambling on forever saying nothing. They love meaningless but weighty sounding generalities. Their only claim to fame in predicting a useful strategy (there's that word again) is to advise modern warriors to "think outside the box". Well, duh! I think we concluded that after 9/11. They don't use that phrase but that's my one-line summary of this waste of paper. To think that trees had to die in order to publish this piece of vacuous stupidity! Granted, this book WAS written before 9/11, in 1999, so we should have heeded its advice when it came out. If this is "China's master plan to destroy America" we can all sleep peacefully tonight. I know I will. Buy this book if you have more money than brains. I'll sell mine to you cheap.
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Summary: Sun Tzu for the 21st Century
Review: This book is written like a Chinese proverb. The writing is very pedantic in places and sounds like proverbs that were translated in to English, at first. Yet the descriptions the writers have of the first Gulf War and the outcomes and lessons learned from there are incredible. To see the changes in our methodology in Iraqi freedom being outlined before we fought was also astonishing. This book outlines the methods of fighting only one foe, the USA. They mention a number of times 'the myth of America's invincibility' and then describe the many methods we are vulnerable. The list includes, economics, biological, our infrastructure, our natural resources, weather, ideological, media, information technology and our military. China has the numerical resources to fight a multi-tiered battle with us if they choose, when the time is correct. Yet, that would be a time when they would feel that they needed to. The economics of it would not serve China's best interest, nor the worlds. If they were to attack America and attempt to be the only superpower in the world there would be another dark age. However, if another country were to use these methods, yet were able to replace the bread basket and other resources of the USA, then the war supposed in this book would be a possibility, actually, a reality. Some who have read Sun Tzu's art of war will recognize some of his strategy in this book, feigning weakness, ideological warfare and the like. It is a slow read at first, yet, once you get through the first chapter it picks up. You must read the footnotes, however, they are not just sources they include additional material that gives a fuller picture and essense of the book. My only question is, why do we produce so much information that our potential enemies can use it against us? China will not use this, however, other enemies, mostly rogue groups with hatred for the US will.
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Summary: Sun Tzu for the 21st Century
Review: This book is written like a Chinese proverb. The writing is very pedantic in places and sounds like proverbs that were translated in to English, at first. Yet the descriptions the writers have of the first Gulf War and the outcomes and lessons learned from there are incredible. To see the changes in our methodology in Iraqi freedom being outlined before we fought was also astonishing. This book outlines the methods of fighting only one foe, the USA. They mention a number of times 'the myth of America's invincibility' and then describe the many methods we are vulnerable. The list includes, economics, biological, our infrastructure, our natural resources, weather, ideological, media, information technology and our military. China has the numerical resources to fight a multi-tiered battle with us if they choose, when the time is correct. Yet, that would be a time when they would feel that they needed to. The economics of it would not serve China's best interest, nor the worlds. If they were to attack America and attempt to be the only superpower in the world there would be another dark age. However, if another country were to use these methods, yet were able to replace the bread basket and other resources of the USA, then the war supposed in this book would be a possibility, actually, a reality. Some who have read Sun Tzu's art of war will recognize some of his strategy in this book, feigning weakness, ideological warfare and the like. It is a slow read at first, yet, once you get through the first chapter it picks up. You must read the footnotes, however, they are not just sources they include additional material that gives a fuller picture and essense of the book. My only question is, why do we produce so much information that our potential enemies can use it against us? China will not use this, however, other enemies, mostly rogue groups with hatred for the US will.
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Summary: What this book tells us
Review: This book tells us of the current administrations future plans for China. I say this, because the organization which so helpfully translated it for us, is so closely linked to the President. I don't think they would translate anything they didn't want us to know, or that was not in their own best interests (do you?). Unfortunately, this means China is on the list of nations they consider a threat to America, which in the current political climate can only mean one thing. I wish I could say the information in the book was not true, but I don't know that. However, the information in the book is not presented in context, and is far too sensationalist for my liking. I visted the website of Newsmax.com (the people behind this book) and did not find fair, or balanced reporting. I suggest that you read 'The Chinese' by Jasper Becker as well as, or instead of this book. Becker gives us a full, fair, and balanced account of modern China, including it's military capability.
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Summary: shame on the translator of this book
Review: This is a book written about 3-4 years ago by a China army officer, this is a pure academic book that details the new ideas of an unbalanced warfare.
I don't understand why two country 10000 miles apart will want to destroy each other, and I don't know why author use such a misleading title. The original title is just unbalanced war, the example used in book is USA for the simple reason that US has been the one who suffers more on such kind of warfare.
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Summary: It's all true and the truth does hurt.
Review: This is a padded edition with more hype on terrorism and fear than necessary. The original text by Lang and Xiangsui is a fascinating look at the true weaknesses of the American military system. It is with this book that China identifies America as its sole predominate enemy. I fully believe and support our military in any and all of its endeavors. However the book correctly points out, among other things, that the US has an obsession with human casualties. It is because of this that wars are fought from a distance, with technology, in order to minimize casualties. This is something that is very evident to anyone who's looked at the American military's history. From World War 2 to Desert Storm II, the increased use of technology and the public outcry over casualties has increased ten fold. This book, correctly so, advances the theory that in the event of a war between China and America, there will be an unconventional war sorts or rather "the war will be fought an won in a war beyond the battlefield" using terrorism, financial institutions, computer hackers, among many others. The sale of this book is mainly a money making scheme since the CIA translation is available for free all over the internet. On the other hand, this is an excellent book for any foreign policy enthusiast, but more importantly, for those military intelligence analysts who we hope are reading it. This is what China really thinks and the truth really does hurt.
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Summary: Nonsense
Review: This is just another nonsense fairy tale.
It reminds me of a recently published book
on 9/11 written by a French who suggests
that US Military Right Wing bombed WTC and
Pentagon and blamed it on Bin Laden.
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