Thursday, March 19, 2026
Privacy-First Edition
Back to NNN
Education

Language as a weapon? PLA academics push for training overhaul, cite Ukraine war

Digitised battlefields demand new breed of soldier, as skilled at data analysis and psy-ops as at wielding a weapon, veteran instructor says

According to the article published last Wednesday in the official PLA Daily, Lu argued that the digitised battlefields of the 21st century demanded a new breed of soldier, as adept at data analysis and psychological operations as at handling a weapon.

Lu, from the university’s College of International Studies, has been a military academy instructor for more than three decades. She has researched military foreign language capability development and built a national defence language curriculum system.

Read original at South China Morning Post

The Perspectives

0 verified voices · Three viewpoints · Real discourse

Left
0
Be the first to share a left perspective
Center
0
Be the first to share a center perspective
Right
0
Be the first to share a right perspective

Related Stories