How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

by Rosa Brooks,
The San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2016

In 1999, in a book titled “Unrestricted Warfare,” Qiao Liang and Wang Jiangsui, two colonels in China’s People’s Liberation Army, predicted that violent conflict would soon transcend all limits: “The battlefields will be everywhere” and the boundaries between “the worlds of war and not war, of military and non-military, will be destroyed.”