WASHINGTON \u2014 China is pursuing a new military construct known as Multi-Domain Precision Warfare to align its forces from cyber to space, an effort U.S. officials say is fueled by a need to counter the Pentagon\u2019s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like JADC2, the MDPW core operational concept, as it\u2019s known, relies on interlinked command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to quickly coordinate firepower and expose foreign weaknesses, according to the annual China Military Power Report<\/a>, which the U.S. Department of Defense delivered to Congress in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs we note in the report, this new concept is intended to help identify key vulnerabilities in an adversary\u2019s operational system and then to launch precision strikes against those vulnerabilities, which could be kinetic or non-kinetic,\u201d a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Nov. 28, speaking on condition of anonymity. \u201cBasically, it\u2019s a way that they\u2019re thinking about looking across domains to identify vulnerabilities in an adversary\u2019s operational system and then to exploit those to cause its collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n