Global Security, Privacy, & Risk Management

New Book Published! “The War God’s Face Has Become Indistinct” May 13, 2026

I am proud to announce that after years of research, writing and formatting (the bane of my existence as a writer) my latest book about Chinese Unrestricted Warfare against the United States is finally published! You can buy either a Kindle, soft cover, or hardback. Here is a description of the book. The full title is “The War Gods Face Has Become Indistinct: China’s Unrestricted Warfare Doctrine and the War America Doesn’t Know It’s Fighting” It is 423 pages long and pretty heavy reading but insightful.

“In 1999, two Senior Colonels of the People’s Liberation Army published a doctrinal blueprint for how a militarily inferior power could defeat the United States without ever firing a shot. Twenty-five years later, every operational case in that blueprint has been executed against American interests.

The War God’s Face Has Become Indistinct is the first comprehensive analytical treatment of Chinese unrestricted warfare doctrine and its operational record against the United States from 2000 to 2026. Drawing on twenty-five years of professional experience in cybersecurity, military reconnaissance, and intelligence analysis, Chris Mark traces the doctrine’s seven operational domains — from the Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon cyber campaigns against American critical infrastructure, through the Thousand Talents Plan and the academic-warfare prosecutions, to the political cultivation operations that have reached from California congressional staff to municipal mayors.

What you will find inside:

• A complete operational analysis of the Qiao-Wang doctrine and its institutional adoption by the Chinese state
– The first systematic account of Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, and the undersea-cable threat picture in a single analytical framework
– The Mark Heptad — the author’s original threat-assessment framework, used to analyze adversary motivation in seven categories
– The cost-exchange revolution in drone and missile warfare, and what the Israel-Iran engagement of April 2024 revealed about the next conflict
– The Russia-Iran-North Korea adversary architectures examined through the same doctrinal lens
– A six-domain framework for democratic response that does not require America to become what it is defending against

For policy professionals, intelligence community readers, military officers, and the educated public who follow national security — this book provides the analytical vocabulary the contemporary American strategic environment requires.“