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 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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

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

Vorwort

The first comprehensive study of China’s military strategy and how it has evolved since 1949.

Zusatztext

"Fravel’s book is a worthwhile read. China experts and enthusiasts will find it especially compelling, as will those interested in military strategy."---Shai A. Kivity, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

Produktdetails

• Autoren: M Taylor Fravel, M. Taylor Fravel
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780691152134
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15213-4
• Seiten: 396
• Abmessung: 166 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Serien: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics; Princeton Studies in Internati; Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, Political science & theory, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Military tactics, Political science and theory, Military and defence strategy, Marxism & Communism