Come on Wilf that isn't nearly up to your normal level of quality post. I read too, and a lot on Chinese military history. I see poorly written fearful diatribes based on ethnocentrism rather than realistic risk aversion too.
You'll have to define "Define Chinese Military Power" for me though. What you call it likely isn't what the Chinese call it. I also don't see why making money has to be a point to denigrate authors either (everybody knows I don't make any money writing).
The Chinese don't see their military as their primary source of power. They see their population size and education level as a primacy of power. Watch Chinese television for a few weeks and the internal dialog they are having is much simpler than most people seem to believe. The inscrutable Chinese general is remarkably absent from all but Chinese soap operas.
I see deep divides between western expectations and Chinese realizations. I agree with you Wilf, that most western writing is poorly executed when Chinese sophistication stops with Sun Tzu. I'm just not sure why you popped off on the document "Unrestricted Warfare". The authors have given talks in the United States, there are numerous translations, and some are fairly poor. It is a government level document and I have never read one from any any country that didn't read like a grade school primer. So why the hostility?
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