ABSTRACT
A decade and more ago, strategists in the former Soviet Union had named this potential the "military-technical revolution"a term still commonly used in Chinese journals. The seeming pivotal role played by advanced military technologies in the 1991 Persian Gulf War heightened interest in the implications of emerging technologies for future warfare, and in the United States they were dubbed the "Revolution in Military Affairs". As Chinese military analysts have been stating for the past twenty years and more, new technologies always demand revisions to military doctrine, organization, and concepts of operations. Although China's military journals, especially Military Science published by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Military Science (AMS), have identified the basic problems facing the Chinese armed forces at the operational level of war, there is little available on air and naval operations. Defining the military objectives sought by offensive operations has been discussed at some length in China's military journals.
