An Assessment of China's View an the Revolution in Military Affairs and Future Warfare

An Assessment of China's View an the Revolution in Military Affairs and Future Warfare

Author: Paul Christian

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Published: 1998

Total Pages: 21

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China's explosive economy has financed her recent modernization program. Not only is China modernizing her armed forces but many of her senior military authors are advocating a RMA and expounding on its potential value to future warfare. Due to China's existing technology gap, there are skeptics in the United States who doubt that she will be able to keep pace with the American conception of RMA. However, the Chinese view of RMA may be completely different from the Western view. With a regional strategic and operational focus and employing the fruits of RMA, the Chinese may be able to develop highly complex, asymmetrical capabilities and operational techniques that deny area access to a U.S. military force, thus limiting American ability to influence the situation. The results of this analysis suggest that even though China will be unable to completely technically with America for a least a decade and maybe longer, nevertheless, the U.S. needs to develop plans, concepts, and countermeasures to defeat future Chinese asymmetrical warfare that is based on rapid advances in technology.


Chinese Views of Future Warfare

Chinese Views of Future Warfare

Author: Michael Pillsbury

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1997-12

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780788146688

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An introduction to the works of authoritative and innovative Chinese authors whose writings focus on the future of the Chinese military. These carefully selected, representative essays make Chinese military thinking more accessible to western readers. It reveals, for example, China's keen interest in the Revolution in military affairs. This volume is an important starting point for understanding China's future military modernization. "Must reading for every executive of every Western firm doing business in China." "Readers will be impressed by China's ambitions in space, information warfare, stealth, and robots, in future warfare." Photos.


Implications of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) on China's Military Modernization

Implications of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) on China's Military Modernization

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Published: 1999

Total Pages: 52

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This report documents the results as of the above date of a research project carried out by the author while at the National War College during the academic year 1998-1999. It is an assessment of the future military threat posed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to the US and its allies in the Pacific. In addition to examining the traditional dimensions of military capability, this report specifically addresses the implications of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) on this assessment. The following points pertain to the scope and approach of this report. This report is intended to inform the debate over whether China poses a strategic threat to the US and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region. That is whether and in what ways China's military future military capability might alter the balance of power in that region. It does not address whether China intends to alter the balance of power or the likelihood of a conflict involving the US and China. This report addresses only conventional military capability Nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare capability are not addressed. The report also does not address the possible use by China of "asymmetric strategies" such as sponsoring terrorism or broad based use of information warfare against the US or its allies. This limitation is partly due to time constraints and a complete assessment needs to address these topics However this limitation also reflects the author's perception that these other dimensions of military capability have strategic significance for a great power only in conjunction with conventional forces. The report is based on unclassified sources. A possible classified annex is planned. The time frame of the assessment is the next ten-to-twenty years. Chapter IV, which addressed the RMA and its implications, is based on a combination of published and unpublished work and the author's analysis. The remainder of the report is based on published work.


China's Strategic Support Force

China's Strategic Support Force

Author: John Costello

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781727834604

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In late 2015, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) initiated reforms that have brought dramatic changes to its structure, model of warfighting, and organizational culture, including the creation of a Strategic Support Force (SSF) that centralizes most PLA space, cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare capabilities. The reforms come at an inflection point as the PLA seeks to pivot from land-based territorial defense to extended power projection to protect Chinese interests in the "strategic frontiers" of space, cyberspace, and the far seas. Understanding the new strategic roles of the SSF is essential to understanding how the PLA plans to fight and win informationized wars and how it will conduct information operations.


China and the Revolution in Military Affairs

China and the Revolution in Military Affairs

Author: Bates Gill

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Published: 1996-05

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781423579137

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The author of the first essay, 'China and the Revolution in Military Affairs: Assessing Economic and Socio-cultural Factors,' argues that, for a variety of reasons, China cannot seize the Revolution in Military Affairs. For example, China is missing a generation of educated men and women due to the excesses of the cultural revolution. The author of the second essay, 'China's Capacity for Achieving a Revolution in Military Affairs,' argues that China's limited capabilities of air and sea forces will not enable it to achieve the level of military capability demonstrated by the United States during the Gulf War.


China Debates the Future Security Environment

China Debates the Future Security Environment

Author: Michael Pillsbury

Publisher: National Defense University (NDU)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 440

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This study offers over 600 selected quotations from the writings of over 200 Chinese authors published from 1994 to 1999. Analysis and interpretation are kept to a minimum so that the Chinese may speak for themselves. Many Chinese scholars assisted with this study by providing hard-to-get books and articles unfamiliar to most Westerners. Half the authors were interviewed in China. They explained some of the viewpoints in recent debates about the future security environment. Debates in China are generally concealed, and frequently authors pretend they do not exist. However muted they may be, China's debates about the future nevertheless exist and merit attention if we are to understand the premises of China's national strategy and set a baseline from which to measure any future change in these premises.


China's Military Faces the Future

China's Military Faces the Future

Author: James Lilley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1315501031

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This is the most up-to-date assessment of all aspects of the People's Liberation Army. Leading specialists on the Chinese military cover military leadership, defense doctrine and military readiness, preparations for high-tech warfare, military expenditure, military logistics, the scientific and technological base for defense procurement, and China's security concerns in Northeast Asia.