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China's President Hu Talks IT Warfare

narramissic writes "In his keynote speech at the Communist Party Congress in October China's president Hu Jintao was specific in his references to one area of IT: defense. 'We must build strong armed forces through science and technology. To attain the strategic objective of building computerized armed forces and winning IT-based warfare, we will accelerate composite development of mechanization and computerization, carry out military training under IT-based conditions, modernize every aspect of logistics, intensify our efforts to train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers and change the mode of generating combat capabilities.'"

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  1. Bullshit Bingo Winner! by trolltalk.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    >"We must build strong armed forces through science and technology. To attain the strategic objective of building computerized armed forces and winning IT-based warfare, we will accelerate composite development of mechanization and computerization, carry out military training under IT-based conditions, modernize every aspect of logistics, intensify our efforts to train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers and change the mode of generating combat capabilities."

    Filled my bullshit bingo card across, down, and both diagonals! Sure he doesn't work in marketing?

  2. Hu? by gotonull · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hu talks about IT warfare?

  3. In other news.... by nebaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    President Hu also challenged the Chinese electrical system to develop faster forms of power recovery, so when power goes out, pertaining to laptops, Hu's will be on first.

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  4. military training under IT-based conditions by poopie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Translation: We're going to play a lot of Halo 3

  5. Somebody set up us the bomb. by my_left_nut · · Score: 4, Funny
    All your base are belong to us!

    With great justice!

    Carry out military training under IT-based conditions!

  6. His Plans Are Clear by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 4, Funny

    He means for China to cut off our supply of farmed WoW gold. Gentlemen, we must not allow a WoW gold gap!

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