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Active Defense : China's Military Strategy since 1949 / M. Taylor Fravel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 167Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (396 p.) : 1 b/w illus. 6 maps. 2 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780691152134
  • 9780691185590
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355/.033551 23
LOC classification:
  • UA835 .F73 2019.
  • UA835 .F73 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- 1. Explaining Major Change in Military Strategy -- 2. The CCP's Military Strategies before 1949 -- 3. The 1956 Strategy: "Defending the Motherland" -- 4. The 1964 Strategy: "Luring the Enemy in Deep" -- 5. The 1980 Strategy: "Active Defense" -- 6. The 1993 Strategy: "Local Wars under High- Technology Conditions" -- 7. China's Military Strategies since 1993: "Informatization" -- 8. China's Nuclear Strategy since 1964 -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
Summary: What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People's Liberation Army (PLA) calls "strategic guidelines." What accounts for these numerous changes? Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel illuminates the nation's past and present military goals and how China sought to achieve them, and offers a rich set of cases for deepening the study of change in military organizations.Drawing from diverse Chinese-language sources, including memoirs of leading generals, military histories, and document collections that have become available only in the last two decades, Fravel shows why transformations in military strategy were pursued at certain times and not others. He focuses on the military strategies adopted in 1956, 1980, and 1993-when the PLA was attempting to wage war in a new kind of way-to show that China has pursued major change in its strategic guidelines when there has been a significant shift in the conduct of warfare in the international system and when China's Communist Party has been united.Delving into the security threats China has faced over the last seven decades, Active Defense offers a detailed investigation into how and why states alter their defense policies.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- 1. Explaining Major Change in Military Strategy -- 2. The CCP's Military Strategies before 1949 -- 3. The 1956 Strategy: "Defending the Motherland" -- 4. The 1964 Strategy: "Luring the Enemy in Deep" -- 5. The 1980 Strategy: "Active Defense" -- 6. The 1993 Strategy: "Local Wars under High- Technology Conditions" -- 7. China's Military Strategies since 1993: "Informatization" -- 8. China's Nuclear Strategy since 1964 -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People's Liberation Army (PLA) calls "strategic guidelines." What accounts for these numerous changes? Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel illuminates the nation's past and present military goals and how China sought to achieve them, and offers a rich set of cases for deepening the study of change in military organizations.Drawing from diverse Chinese-language sources, including memoirs of leading generals, military histories, and document collections that have become available only in the last two decades, Fravel shows why transformations in military strategy were pursued at certain times and not others. He focuses on the military strategies adopted in 1956, 1980, and 1993-when the PLA was attempting to wage war in a new kind of way-to show that China has pursued major change in its strategic guidelines when there has been a significant shift in the conduct of warfare in the international system and when China's Communist Party has been united.Delving into the security threats China has faced over the last seven decades, Active Defense offers a detailed investigation into how and why states alter their defense policies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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