Professional Military Education

In this interview with Professor Kerry Gershaneck, we discuss his book, Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to ‘Win without Fighting’. The book was published in 2020 by the Marine Corps University (MCU) press. Topics include: The history of “political warfare” and its roots going back to Vladimir Lenin and the Soviet Union United Front Work and its use as a political warfare tool Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ideology and the character of China’s regime China’s overall strategy and tactics to “win without fighting” How America used political warfare during the Cold War and then abandoned it in the 1990s China’s influence in American business, film, education, and media The origins of “One China” policy and how China is applying it to influence geopolitics  A brief history of Taiwan after the Chinese civil war  America’s changing diplomatic relations with China and Taiwan during the Cold War  Current events related to China and Taiwan and the near term prospect for an invasion Political