China’s emerging “counter-AI warfare” playbook

A mask of darkness had fallen over the Gobi Desert training grounds at Zhurihe when the Blue Force unleashed a withering strike intended to wipe Red Force artillery off the map. Plumes rose from “destroyed” batteries as the seemingly successful fire plan took out its targets in waves. But it had all been a trap. When Blue began to shift positions to avoid counter-battery fire, exercise control called a halt—and revealed that, far from defeating the enemy, more than half of