The Science of Military Strategy (SMS; 战略学; Zhanlüe Xue) is one of the main doctrinal publications of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on the study of war.
[1][2] The 2013 edition is a joint work of 35 Chinese military scholars led by Major General Shou Xiaosong (寿晓松).
[3] The PLA defines the "science of strategy" as "the discipline of studying the overall situation and rules of war, national defense, and army building".
[2] The PLA National Defense University (NDU) also has a publication called The Science of Military Strategy.
[1] China's places itself in an international order that is multipolar, with PLA's historic mission being closely linked to China's worldview, the survival of the CPC over everything else, and the winning of local and limited area wars under conditions of informatization.
PLA admits that it is conventionally handicapped, therefore it must focus on unconventional means of war including information supremacy in the space and cyberspace domain.