PLA to take Taiwan without total destruction: report

By Jake Chung / Staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has developed a comprehensive strategy to swiftly capture Taipei by using a combination of precision strikes, cyberattacks and cognitive warfare to paralyze the city and break the public’s will to resist without resorting to total destruction, the US-based RAND Corp said last month.China’s “all-domain megacity incapacitation warfare” aims to break the will of Taiwanese to fight, RAND wrote in an article published on the War on the Rocks Web site.The idea appeared in an issue of Military Art, China’s leading internal journal on military theory, in March last year, it said. The Republic of China flag flutters in Taipei on Tuesday. Photo: I-Hwa Cheng, AFP “The [Chinese] Central Military Commissi