Farewell to China’s Strategic Support Force. Let’s Meet its Replacements

New America Strategist and ASU Professor of Practice Peter W. Singer wrote with Matthew Bruzzese on China's elimination of its Strategic Support Force, and what it is replacing it with:

The unexpected elimination of the People’s Liberation Army unit that handled space, cyber, and electronic warfare missions is all the more surprising because the Strategic Support Force seemed to just be coming into its own. On April 19, the PLA announced that three co-equal forces—the Aerospace Force, Cyberspace Force, and Information Support Force—would be established to replace the SFF,  itself created as part of the broad 2015 reorganization that also birthed the PLA Rocket Force.

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