Introduction
The United States is actively engaged in combating what is being termed systems-destruction warfare, in a manner that Chinese military scholars refer to as unrestricted warfare. Within systems confrontation, conflict is waged in the traditional physical domains of air, land, sea, and space, but also the non-physical cyberspace, electromagnetic, and information domains. Systems-destruction warfare applies predominantly to the application of military resources and systems to wage war and dominate within these domains. China’s vision of unrestricted warfare, however, relates to more overarching principles for new warfare that is omnidirectional, asymmetric, and unlimited in its application.
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