Active Defense (eBook)

China's Military Strategy since 1949

M. Taylor Fravel (Autor)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18559-0 (ISBN)

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M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and a member of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Strong Borders, Secure Nation (Princeton). Twitter @fravel

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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 "e;strategic guidelines."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus. 6 maps. 2 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Academy of Military Science (United States) • Active protection system • amphibious warfare • Armoured warfare • arms industry • Army • artillery • ballistic missile • Beijing • Cambridge University Press • Capability (systems engineering) • Central Committee • Central Military Commission (China) • China • Combat readiness • Combined arms • Commissar • counterattack • Deng Xiaoping • Division (military) • Economy of China • Encirclement Campaigns • First five-year plan (Soviet Union) • Force structure • Fujian • General Office • Great Leap Forward • Great Power • guerrilla warfare • Guideline • High Tech • Hua Guofeng • hu jintao • imperialism • Intercontinental Ballistic Missile • International Relations • Iraq War • Jiang Zemin • Kosovo War • Lin Biao • Liu Huaqing • Liu Shaoqi • Luo Ruiqing • Mao Zedong • Military • military academy • Military advisor • Military Capability • military doctrine • Military exercise • Military Operation • Military organization • Military science • Military Strategy • Military tactics • Military Technology • mobile warfare • modern warfare • National Military Strategy (United States) • national security • Nie Rongzhen • nuclear strategy • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • official history • Operational level of war • Operational Target • Party leader • peacetime • Peng Dehuai • People's Liberation Army • People's Liberation Army Air Force • People's Liberation Army Rocket Force • people's war • politburo • Political commissar • Political Party • Politics • Reconnaissance • Requirement • socialist state • Song Shilun • Soviet Armed Forces • Soviet Union • Strategic goal (military) • strategist • Superiority (short story) • Su Yu • Technology • Tiananmen Square • Total War • war • warfare • weapon system • World War I • World War II • Xi Jinping • Ye Jianying • Zhang Zhen (general) • Zhou Enlai
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18559-X / 069118559X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18559-0 / 9780691185590