{"id":38913,"date":"2024-04-27T09:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38913"},"modified":"2024-04-27T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:42:31","slug":"xi-shakes-up-chinas-military-in-rethink-of-how-to-fight-and-win-future-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38913","title":{"rendered":"Xi shakes up China\u2019s military in rethink of how to\u00a0\u2018fight and win\u2019 future wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> has rolled out the largest restructuring of its military in almost a decade, focusing on technology-driven strategic forces equipped for modern warfare, as&nbsp;Beijing vies with Washington for military primacy in a region rife with geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a surprise move last week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping scrapped the Strategic Support Force (SSF), a military branch he created in 2015 to integrate the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s space, cyber, electronic and psychological warfare capabilities as part of a sweeping overhaul of the armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its place, Xi inaugurated the Information Support Force, which he said was \u201ca brand-new strategic arm of the PLA and a key underpinning of coordinated development and application of the network information system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new force would play an important role in helping the Chinese military \u201cfight and win in modern warfare,\u201d he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mohrss.gov.cn\/SYrlzyhshbzb\/dongtaixinwen\/shizhengyaowen\/202404\/t20240420_517173.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> at a ceremony last Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cn\/mrdx\/2024-04\/20\/c_1310771952.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news conference<\/a> on the same day, a spokesperson for China\u2019s Defense Ministry appeared to suggest the SSF was effectively broken into three units \u2013 the Information Support Force, the Aerospace Force and the Cyberspace Force \u2013 which will answer directly to the Central Military Commission, the body at the top of the military chain of command headed by Xi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the new structure, the PLA now consists of four services \u2013 the army, navy, air force and the rocket force \u2013 plus four arms: the three units spun off from the SSF and the Joint Logistic Support Force, according to ministry spokesperson Wu Qian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: China has rolled out the largest restructuring of its military in almost a decade, focusing on technology-driven strategic forces equipped for modern warfare, as&nbsp;Beijing vies with Washington for military primacy in a region rife with geopolitical tensions. In a surprise move last week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping scrapped the Strategic Support Force (SSF), a military branch he created in 2015 to integrate the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s space, cyber, electronic and psychological warfare capabilities as part of a sweeping overhaul of the armed forces. In its place, Xi inaugurated the Information Support Force, which he said was \u201ca brand-new strategic&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38915,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913\/revisions\/38915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}