TY - JOUR
T1 - China’s Vision of the Future Network-Centric Battlefield
T2 - Cyber, Space and Electromagnetic Asymmetric Challenges to the United States
AU - Johnson, James
N1 - Acknowledgment: This article is derived from a chapter in ‘The US-China Military and Defense Relationship during the Obama Presidency’ (2018), copyright held by the publishers Palgrave Macmillan, and the Author(s). Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75838-1
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This article examines the intersection of the evolving Chinese command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) military paradigm, with the cyber, space, and electronic warfare asymmetric challenges posed to the U.S. on the future network-centric battlefield. In contrast to China’s conventional weapon systems, far less ink has been spilled on Chinese thinking in the development of the critical support architecture, which enables and enhances China’s war-fighting capabilities. A central argument this article makes is that the technologically advanced offensive weapons fused by C4ISR systems, pose greater threats to the U.S. than the sum of their parts. The destabilizing dynamics emerging in the Asia-Pacific will likely increase the incentives for both sides to strike first, and preemptively against the others C4ISR systems.
AB - This article examines the intersection of the evolving Chinese command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) military paradigm, with the cyber, space, and electronic warfare asymmetric challenges posed to the U.S. on the future network-centric battlefield. In contrast to China’s conventional weapon systems, far less ink has been spilled on Chinese thinking in the development of the critical support architecture, which enables and enhances China’s war-fighting capabilities. A central argument this article makes is that the technologically advanced offensive weapons fused by C4ISR systems, pose greater threats to the U.S. than the sum of their parts. The destabilizing dynamics emerging in the Asia-Pacific will likely increase the incentives for both sides to strike first, and preemptively against the others C4ISR systems.
U2 - 10.1080/01495933.2018.1526563
DO - 10.1080/01495933.2018.1526563
M3 - Article
SN - 0149-5933
VL - 37
SP - 373
EP - 390
JO - Comparative Strategy
JF - Comparative Strategy
IS - 5
ER -
