Unrestricted Warfare – proposed tactics for developing countries
In 1999, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, both colonels in China’s People’s Liberation Army, published a slender book called Unrestricted Warfare. The two officers predicted that technological innovations and globalization would change warfare almost beyond recognition.
Qiao and Wang published Unrestricted Warfare (link to free pdf file download of the translated text) two years before the 9/11 attacks, and their description of likely changes in warfare was strikingly prescient. The pdf file Unrestricted Warfare is brought to you thanks to this article (link ) @Foreign Policy that highlight the question if “the three indispensable ‘hardware’ elements of any war … soldiers, weapons and a battlefield have changed so that it is impossible to get a firm grip on them.
