Defense report cites China’s growing arsenal, ‘Psychological Warfare’ op. cit

China is conducting its largest military buildup since Nazi Germany during the 1930s, an expert has warned, after a new Defense Ministry report detailed Beijing’s operations including weapons build-up and psychological warfare.

In an article for The Federalist, Chuck DeVore, chief national initiatives officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, pointed to the annual Pentagon report to Congress and warned that the United States has spent $5.4 trillion on its war on terrorism and futile nation-building while China has grown… threat. He urged Congress to join the incoming Trump administration to reallocate resources within the Pentagon to improve sea power priorities, nuclear deterrence, missile defense and logistics.

“China is engaged in an unprecedented military buildup that the world has not seen, frankly, since Adolf Hitler in the 1930s,” Devore, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, told “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

“The big difference now is that he’s really focused on ground power, which is very easy to build very quickly,” he added. “It is much more difficult to build navies. We are far behind. Not only do we need to catch up, but we also need to modernize our nuclear weapons, and we need to put a lot of effort into missile defense.”

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Devore also detailed the Defense Department’s findings in its report, which summarized “military and security developments relating to the People’s Republic of China” in 2024.

“They are building up their nuclear arsenal on a massive scale. We expect it to expand to at least 1,000 warheads by 2030, just five years from now. And it will likely be even greater than that,” Devore said on Sunday. “The Chinese Navy, not in tonnage, but in numbers, is now larger than the U.S. Navy. China has approximately 250 times the shipbuilding capacity that America has.”

The report cites how China has bolstered the arsenal of the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) to include 50 new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which can hit the continental United States, bringing their total number to 400. As far as the report reveals, the Ministry of Defense and China say it It added 300 medium-range ballistic missiles and 100 long-range cruise missiles. Its arsenal now also includes more than 600 ready-to-use nuclear warheads, and it is expected to have more than 1,000 by 2030.

The Defense Department says the People’s Republic of China possesses the world’s leading arsenal of hypersonic missiles, including the DF-27, which, as Devore points out, “are capable of eluding U.S. missile defenses and targeting Guam, Hawaii, and Alaska.”

China already has the world’s largest navy, but it is expected to expand from the current 370 ships and submarines to 435 by 2030.

The 182-page Defense Department report also details how the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party, is seeking to “expand the scope of its influence operations around the world and seize information dominance on the battlefield.” By researching and developing what she “believes to be the next evolution of psychological warfare,” known as Cognitive Domain Operations (CDO).

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The Department of Defense estimates that the CDO “blends former PRC concepts, such as public opinion guidance and psychological warfare, with modern cyber technologies and communications platforms, and is designed to achieve strategic national security objectives by influencing target perception to alter target behavior and decision-making.” The report says that CDO includes emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, big data, brain sciences, and neuroscience.

“The goal of the CDO is to achieve what the PLA refers to as ‘mind dominance,’ which the PLA defines as the use of information to influence public opinion to influence change in the nation’s social order, and is likely to create an environment conducive to the Republic of China.” “The PLA may intend to use implicit defense commitments as an asymmetric capability to deter the entry of the United States or any third party into a potential conflict, or as an offensive capability to shape perceptions,” the report says. Or polarize society.”

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The report says that the People’s Liberation Army seeks to exert psychological pressure and fear on the opponent, considering that using direct command to subjugate the enemy without fighting “is the highest field of war.”