Assessment of China's View on the Revolution in Military Affairs and Future Warfare

摘要

China's explosive economy has financed her recent modernization program. Not only is China modernizing her armed forces but many of her senior military authors are advocating a RMA and expounding on its potential value to future warfare. Due to China's existing technology gap, there are skeptics in the United States who doubt that she will be able to keep pace with the American conception of RMA. However, the Chinese view of RMA may be completely different from the Western view. With a regional strategic and operational focus and employing the fruits of RMA, the Chinese may be able to develop highly complex, asymmetrical capabilities and operational techniques that deny area access to a U.S. military force, thus limiting American ability to influence the situation. The results of this analysis suggest that even though China will be unable to completely technically with America for a least a decade and maybe longer, nevertheless, the U.S. needs to develop plans, concepts, and countermeasures to defeat future Chinese asymmetrical warfare that is based on rapid advances in technology.