Soon afterward, Chinese flag officers and senior colonels began making extremely belligerent comments in public.

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For example, the release of Unrestricted Warfare61(through a semi-independent publishing house) caused a major sensation in Washington. 62 The authors, two PLA senior colonels, advocated the indiscriminate use of military and nonmilitary means to attack the United States during conflict.

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For instance, in 1999, two senior Chinese colonels wrote an officially sanctioned book entitled Unrestricted Warfare.

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