Followinf the year of 1991, with the extensive application in the military field of new and high technology, focusing on information technology, it is a common choice for main countries in the world to build an Informationization army to promote the ability to win an information war in the future. Military information construction has already become the focus topic of military theory innovation and military practice and also an important observation indicator to assess national defense construction and military strength development all over the world. Under this background, Jiang Zemin proposed a national defence and military modernization cross-centennial ¡§three step¡¨ development strategy to promote military information construction in an all-round way and hope to build up an information-based army in 2050. The construction achievement of the first step strategy from 1991 to 2010 is a key factor to the success or failure of PLA building up an Informationization army in 2050. The main study focus and range of this dissertation is PRC's first step national defence and military modernization construction based on cross-centennial ¡§three steps¡¨ development strategy. By studying military thinking logic and law building, including fighting, building, training, we are going to observe and understand the military information construction outcome from 1991 to 2010 of PRC and assess and analyze the prospect of PLA military information construction, the domestic and foreign challenge that they may face, and its impacts on surrounding countries.

During the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgia and Russia fought what the English-language media called "a public relations war“. This was an interesting example of modern information warfare where governments allied with public relations agencies battled for symbolic power on the media field. This study investigates the information campaign that the Georgian government launched to promote their framing of the conflict in the English-language media. First-hand information about the campaign strategies and techniques is gathered by interviewing the people who worked as PR consultants for the Georgian government during the war in 2008. The eventual PR output is mapped and press release texts are compared with articles from The New York Times and The Washington Post in a framing analysis. The results indicate that Georgia won the PR war as the coverage in the U.S. newspapers clearly supported Georgia's framing. This outcome is attributed to the Georgian side's media management activities that skillfully anticipated the needs of the foreign correspondents covering the conflict. However, the study points out that the supportive coverage was not the result of Georgia's information campaign only. Other factors have to be taken into account, most notably the U.S. administration's strong backing of the Georgian leadership that shaped the tone of the articles written about the war. Future research should look at how the war was covered in countries with less explicit political support for Georgia, as well as investigate the PR efforts on the Russian side during and after the war.