In the wars of the coming decades, predicted the two Chinese officers, the “soldiers” will increasingly be computer hackers, financiers, terrorists, drug smugglers, and agents of private corporations, as well as members of organized state militaries. Their “weapons” will range from “airplanes, cannons, poison gas, bombs, [and] biochemical agents” to “computer viruses, net browsers, and financial derivative tools.” Warfare, wrote Qiao and Wang, will soon “transcend all boundaries and limits. . . . [T]he battlefield will be everywhere . . . [and] all the boundaries lying between the two worlds
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