China's "Assassin's Mace" Irregular Warfare Campaign May Render Trump's Golden Dome Useless.
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Golden Showers, Were Already Useless.China's "Assassin's Mace" Irregular Warfare Campaign May Render Trump's Golden Dome Useless
There has been extensive media coverage of President Trump's new Golden Dome hemispheric defense push, a key element of the administration's revised force posture in the Western Hemisphere. CNN reported Friday that the Pentagon is preparing to deploy thousands of troops across Latin American waters to disrupt narco-terrorist command-and-control networks.
Here is the critical blind spot most are overlooking: All of this hemispheric defense posturing, and the eventual missile defense shield, basically an Iron Dome on steroids, risks being completely undermined by Beijing's asymmetric warfare playbook.
Aware of its conventional military disadvantages relative to the U.S., the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its armed wing, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), have invested heavily in unconventional weapons systems and covert action programs that are already well underway.
Several of the PLA's irregular warfare tools and covert action programs can be classified as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). These include bioweapons, biochemical weapons, nanoweapons, brain-computer interface weapons, directed-energy weapons, and miniaturized EMPs.
