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Against America
achieve the goals of war, without intentionally keep the public distracted to bring the country into a state of chaos, so both economically and militarily, un- finding its opposite, and then “eliminate the ing religious belief as “superstition” and its
engaging in troop-on-troop com- and unaware. that the public will support outside interven- til permanent capitulation is achieved,” middle” to push people to its two extremes. use of this label to attack or imprison reli-
bat. Many of these tactics were de- Among the overarching strategies is the tion to install a new form of government. Fleming said, and described it as a form of After the society is divided, the two sides gious believers. When used abroad, dialecti-
tailed in the 1999 Chinese military process of subversion. The Soviet Union Casey Fleming, CEO of BlackOps Part- warfare “based on deception, and devoid of can be driven into conflict, which allows cal materialism works as a tool to invert the
book “Unrestricted Warfare” but used subversion to spread its “communist ners Corp., a global intelligence strategy any rules.” the perpetrator to step in and stabilize or values of a target country, to form social is-
pull from older deception tactics revolution,” and the CCP has adopted and cyber advisory company, described the At the heart of all these strategies is a “normalize” the situation. sues and movements around the inversions,
Methods of subversion and unrestricted war used and from programs that were set in mo- many of the same strategies to export its CCP’s strategies as a system of “asymmetri- central tool of communist regimes that Dialectical materialism can include the and to use the inversions to drive forward a
tion by the Soviet Union. The key goals “China model.” Subversion is a process to cal hybrid warfare” using a combination of is used to manufacture issues to push for promotion of values that contradict a coun- subversive agenda.
to undermine the United States
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STAGES OF SUBVERSION
that make it function. groups against each other.
CONTROL INFORMATION INFILTRATE AND SEIZE CONTROL STEAL FROM AND DESTROY SUPPORT OPERATIONS TO ASSIST WAGE WAR INDIRECTLY IN EVENT OF WAR, USE
AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF INSTITUTIONS THE ECONOMY IN OTHER FORMS OF WARFARE DEVASTATING SURPRISE ATTACKS
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TRADE
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ECONOMIC AID
every facet of a
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discreetly seize control
The use of street gangs or The competition for control of The use of economic aid
of a nation. organized crime networks to global trade. This includes the to create dependency and miltiary objective.
threaten or kill dissidents or control or disruption of physical corruption or to assist a
influential critics. or online markets as well as target nation’s adversaries.
trade deals such as China’s
“One Belt One Road Initiative.”