Chinese Army Starts Simulating Full-Scale Conflict with US-Led Alliance
The Chinese military has recently added a “total war” scenario when testing and evaluating the performance of new weapons as the risk of military conflict between China and the US reaches its highest in decades, according to scientists involved in the project, Report informs referring to South China Morning Post.
Total war means all available resources and efforts of a nation are mobilized towards winning the war. It involves not only the military but also the civilian population and the economy, such as occurred in World War I and II.
In their latest evaluation of warships, Chinese navy scientists designated the doomsday scenario with Z.
In mainland China, the performance assessment of conventional weapons involves computer-based war games and field tests. It has focused mostly on evaluating the weapons’ combat capabilities in a regional conflict, such as direct military intervention by two or more foreign aircraft carrier groups around Taiwan or in the South China Sea.
Fang’s unit is responsible for the sea tests of some of China’s newest and most powerful naval weapons, according to openly available information. The Z-war scenario was declassified for the first time in their peer-reviewed paper published in the Chinese Journal of Ship Research this month.
But in Z, “there is a clash of strategic willpower. The regional conflict escalates to a total war”, said the team led by researcher Fang Canxin of Unit 91404 in China’s People’s Liberation Army.
