The transformation from static strength to operational efficiency requires the exploitation of friendly campaign strength, enemy campaign strength, and the campaign environment.

P.121 The goal of campaign stratagem is to achieve higher efficiency and to move away from a situation of simple static strength.

A good stratagem performs a host of cognitive tricks, to include deceiving, controlling, inducing, arousing, creating, innovating, or manipulating another person or an entire staff. A good strategist is a good thinker who is innovative, creative, and flexible in his use of stratagems. P.119 To win with stratagem in the information age, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) believes that a strategist must link technology, strength, and stratagem to control victory. When Chinese planners gather to make decisions, they generate potential stratagems for use by the commanders instead of courses of action. P.118 When US planners gather to make decisions for an upcoming operation, they generate courses of action. P.53 Innovations and creative thinking, in the view of the PLA, are the keys to victory in future war. JLJ - Thomas ponders translations of certain Chinese military publications and provides insight to the Chinese way of thinking in military (and ever more informatory) matters. This book intends to peel back the transformation process and uncover the impact of new modes of thought on several key segments of military development (culture, strategems, crisis management, deception, and reconnaissance among other elements) that digital age thought is affecting. This transformation has affected nearly every aspect of China's military from strategy to logistics to educational development.

Transforming from a Mechanized to an Informatized Forceįoreign Military Studies Office (FMSO), Fort Leavenworth, KSĬhinese observations of warfare in the information age have resulted in a widespread transformation and metamorphosis of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from a mechanized to an informatized force. John L Jerz Website II Copyright (c) 2014

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