Overall War - The Battle of Grand Strategy

Author: Meng Xiansheng
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: When a nation truly seeks to rise, no external force can stop it, because it not only possesses the strategic qualities and conditions for rise, but most importantly, it has developed the powerful ideological and theoretical weapons necessary to support the nation's rise. The theory of holistic war creatively applies Sun Tzu's military philosophy of "subduing the enemy without fighting." Its purpose is to prevent humanity from regressing into irrationality and strategic ignorance, and to avoid transforming the power humans create to build civilization into a force that destroys civilization. The wise choice is to seek a form of competition and confrontation that does not escalate into violence. This is the art of planning for national survival, the art of development, and the art of strength, holding significant value and inspiration for both strong and weak nations. Holistic war is an intercountry effort aimed at achieving the political goal of securing peace and seeking victory without war or winning through peace. It involves developing and relying on a nation's comprehensive strength and all beneficial forces, using political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, military, and other means to carry out various procedures and styles of offensive and defensive confrontation against any party that threatens or harms the nation's interests. It is a limited-control holistic strategic action and a competition involving scientific countermeasures thinking and superior guiding artistry.