The CCP’s Unrestricted Warfare Strategy: Using People as Expendable Resources

Part 2: The CCP resembles a war machine, with its political system, industrial apparatus, and cultural mechanisms operating in wartime mode at all times.

Communist troops of the Chinese Red Army on the march during the assault on Shanghai at the end of the Chinese Civil War, on May 21, 1949. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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This series, “The CCP’s Unrestricted Warfare Strategy,” examines the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy for destroying its adversaries across all domains of society. Read part one here.

Using Civilians as Human Shields in War

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) employed forms of unrestricted warfare in its efforts to overthrow the Republic of China (ROC), led by Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 to 1949.