CentralNotice Unrestricted Warfare From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search The cover to the original Simplified Chinese edition Unrestricted Warfare: Two Air Force Senior Colonels on Scenarios for War and the Operational Art in an Era of Globalization [1] ( simplified Chinese : 超限战 ; traditional Chinese : 超限戰 ; lit. 'warfare beyond bounds') is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army , Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗). [2] Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means such as political warfare . [3] [4] [5] Such means include using legal tools ( see lawfare ) and econom...