 Complete the following phrase:  The PLAs interest in modern special warfare was first noted in the mid-1980s when it was shifting its military stance from a peoples war to fighting a local war under hi-tech conditions. The PLA planners believed that the next war would be a short, fast-paced conflict on the periphery rather than a total war on Chinese territory, and that conventional infantry-orientated ground forces would no longer meet their requirements. Additionally, the PLAs combat experience from the 