Chinese defense planners were alarmed by U.S. military dominance in 1991 Gulf War and spurred a rapid military modernization program. Instead of building a gigantic massed miltary the PLA focused on developing means to destroy critical connective systems of the U.S. military:

kinda random but are you familiar with thomas pm barnett he is/was a idk geopolitical strategist and was trying to of a US CHINA partnership thing but idk what ever happened to that.  anyway random TED from him i liked but this particular video is just about restructuring us military

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kinda random but are you familiar with thomas pm barnett he is/was a idk geopolitical strategist and was trying to of a US CHINA partnership thing but idk what ever happened to that.  anyway random TED from him i liked but this particular video is just about restructuring us military 

https://youtu.be/d3xlb6_0OEs