Lyle Morris published a commentary on July 2, 2026, titled "The Blind Spots in Chinese Military Studies," warning about reduced access to authoritative Chinese military sources. Morris proposed restoring the Open Source Enterprise, formerly known as the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, to the public domain.

Morris stated that authoritative primary and secondary source documents from academic institutions affiliated with the Chinese military are dwindling or becoming outdated. He added that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) organizational reforms contributed to this reduction in available source documents. Morris also attributed much of the blame for restricting access to Chinese military doctrinal materials to the PLA.

Morris said the employment of autonomous systems, artificial intelligence (AI), and hypersonics exacerbates the lack of authoritative sources on Chinese military strategy. He noted that recent journal articles and newspapers associated with the Chinese armed forces, such as the People's Liberation Army Daily, lack specificity on the wartime use of new technologies.

To address these challenges, Morris proposed empowering existing U.S. government platforms like the Library of Congress to support a reconstituted Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Morris has participated in dozens of unclassified wargames at the RAND Corporation.

In February 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China released the "Measures for Managing the Dissemination of Military Information on the Internet." These measures imposed new restrictions on online information regarding the PLA and limited the entities allowed to publish PLA news. The Chinese government stated the regulations aimed to address the spread of false military information and the leakage of military secrets on the Chinese internet.

The regulations banned the producing, copying, publishing, and disseminating of military secrets, national defense technology and industry secrets, or other undisclosed information. This includes the development and testing of weapons systems, military drills, and deployments. The regulations also cover the organizational structures, tasks, and combat capabilities of military units that have not been officially disclosed by the PLA. These rules target individual social media users and online military information service providers. The PLA is not updating or making available major doctrinal texts, such as The Science of Military Strategy, which were previously used by scholars to analyze Chinese military thinking.