Active defense China's military strategy since 1949
Since 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 mi...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University Press
2019
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| Series: | Princeton studies in international history and politics
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Explaining major change in military strategy
- The CCP's military strategies before 1949
- The 1956 strategy: "defending the motherland"
- The 1964 strategy: "luring the enemy in deep"
- The 1980 strategy: "active defense"
- The 1993 strategy: "local wars under high-technology conditions"
- China's military strategies since 1993: "informatization"
- China's nuclear strategy since 1964
- Conclusion