INFORMATION INTENSITY ORBITAL SPACE WARFARE Applying Chang Mengxiong's Information Intensified Combat Methods, and Acupuncture Strategy to Conducting Orbital Warfare (original) (raw)

This paper looks at the application of Information Intensified Combat Methods, and Acupuncture Strategy to conducting Orbital Warfare. Information Intensified Combat Methods effectively become greater Space Situational Awareness-Space Domain Awareness, which is essential for specifically identifying opponent satellites to target. The attack method, follows the Acupuncture Strategy model using grappling satellites with robotic arms, in Rendezvous Operations with uncooperative target satellites. The actual attack methodology is a Co-Orbital Antisatellite Weapons attack that can deliver an 'acupuncture prick' from an intrusive probe disabling the opponent satellite. In this paper, ground (or air launched) to space Antisatellite missiles is not considered. Currently, "the People's Republic of China, Russia, India, and the United States have tested Antisatellite missiles capable of reaching Low Earth Orbit." 1 While these weapons have dominated space war concepts, these can be bracketed between two events, beginning in 1985, when the United States used its ASM-135A to destroy a real satellite, and 2021, when Kosmos 1408 was successfully destroyed by a Russian Antisatellite missile. Debris created by this weapon use establishes a lingering space threat to all. This may signal ultimate redundancy, except where a rogue state, or extremist entity is concerned, who seek to deny space access and use, as they have little use for it themselves. CHANG MENGXIONG THEOREM In the 1990s, Chang Mengxiong, "a noted Chinese military theorist" 2 , was considered a leading advocate for China's rapid pursuit of information warfare capabilities 3. Mengxiong commenting on 'information-intensified' combat methods, likened these to-"A Chinese boxer with a knowledge of vital body points who can bring an opponent to his knees with a minimum of movement. By contrast, noninformation-intensified combat methods are like fights between villagers in which heads are broken and blood flows, but it is hard to distinguish the winner from the loser." 4 Using the analogy of acupuncture for fighting an Information Intensified Combat the objective is to use a specific strike against a mega-infrastructure site, such that the whole operation of the site is disrupted. In order for the small-scale attack to