Research Catalog

Title

Beyond the strait : PLA missions other than Taiwan / Roy Kampenhausen, David Lai, Andrew Scobell, editors.

Publication

Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, [2009?].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80120847
• Blair, Dennis C.
• Kamphausen, Roy.
• Lai, David, 1955-
• National Bureau of Asian Research (U.S.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94015652
• Scobell, Andrew.
• Texas A & M University. George Bush School of Government and Public Service.

Description

vi, 398 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has undergone a staggering transformation, to become a more mobile and high-tech military force with increased number and variety of missions at home and abroad, in addition to its traditional focus on contingencies in the Taiwan Strait. Increased missions have included disaster and humanitarian relief, United Nations peacekeeping operations, counterterrorism, cyber security and anti-piracy. This volume explores the direction the PLA will take in pursuing its new missions, and how those missions affect the evolution of the PLA's objectives and capabilities, whether new PLA doctrines will emerge, and how they will affect the security of the Asia Pacific and beyond.

Subjects

• China > Armed Forces > Civic action > Congresses
• China > Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun > Reorganization > Congresses
• United Nations China > Congresses
• China > Armed Forces > Reorganization > Congresses
• Internal security > China > Congresses
• China > Military policy > 21st century > Congresses
• Military doctrine > China > Congresses
• Civil-military relations > China > Congresses

Note

• "April 2008."
• Foreword by Dennis C. Blair.
• "The 2008 PLA Conference, conducted by the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, and the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, brought together more than 70 leading experts at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania..."--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / David Lai and Marc Miller -- How China manages Taiwan and its impact on PLA missions / Andrew Scobell -- How China manages internal security challenges and its impact on PLA missions / Murray Scot Tanner -- China's expanding presence in UN peacekeeping operations and implications for the United States / Bates Gill and Chin-hao Huang -- PLA missions in frontier security and counterterrorism / Robert O. Modarelli III -- Strategic deterrence beyond Taiwan / Brad Roberts -- Prospects for China's military space efforts / Dean Cheng -- PLA computer network operations; scenarios, doctrine, organizations and capability / James Mulvenon -- China's regional power projection: prospects for future missions in the South and East China seas / Mark Cozad -- PLA "joint" operational contingencies in South Asia, Central Asia, and Korea / Larry M. Woertzel.

ISBN

• 1584873825
• 9781584873822

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library