"China executes communication strategy in ways U.S. information…" — Maj Teresa L. Sullivan (#c369)

Card #c369IR // #c369SynthesisMilitary report

China executes communication strategy in ways U.S. information practitioners "may not fully comprehend" — achieving objectives through Diplomacy, Information, Military and Economic instruments of power, planned differently across three engagements: the 1979 land invasion of Vietnam, the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, and the 2007 anti-satellite missile test; the thesis frames this as China's quest for information dominance.

— In our words · Source: China's War by Other Means: Unveiling China's Quest for Information Dominance (Maj Teresa L. Sullivan)

[Use when]

Study the adversary's playbook in their own terms — projecting your doctrine onto their actions blinds you to what they're actually doing.

[Why it matters]

The vulnerability the thesis names is the comprehension gap itself — Beijing plans communication strategy around its engagements in a register Western doctrine doesn't read well, which is exactly how information dominance gets built unopposed.