Ideas about China’s Cyber Command

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http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2011/12/27/ideas-about-chinas-cyber-command/

By Adam Segal
Council on Foreign Relations
December 27, 2011

Chinese analysts and officials like to point out that it was the United 
States that first set up Cyber Command and thus, in their view, 
militarized cyberspace. Yet Chinese military thinkers are clearly 
thinking about what type of organizations and institutions they will 
need to conduct offensive cyber operations and to defend their own 
networks against attacks. An interesting piece in China Defense Daily 
lays out some of the characteristics necessary for “a highly effective 
command system for cyber war mobilization.”

* Military and civilian networks are interconnected, and the resources 
needed for cyber war permeate society; military units, social 
organizations, and even individuals “will all possibly become combat 
forces during a cyber war.”

* Given this diffusion of resources, there is a need for a cyber war 
mobilization command system with a “vertical command hierarchy” that 
reaches into all of society.

* Each of the branches of the military should have its own command 
division, manage necessary resources, cultivate forces, and organize 
training and drills. Once a war breaks out, there needs to be a 
“coordinated strategic level” command structure that mobilizes resources 
and launches combat operations.

* There must be specialized troops within industrial sectors, with 
especially strong ties to the information industries.

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