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The 2024 Carlisle Conference on the PLA: Protracted War Against the PRC

Pentagon News — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:17:00 GMT

The US Army War College’s 2024 Carlisle Conference on the People’s Liberation Army was held on October 16 and 17 at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. The conference brought together experts to discuss the People’s Republic of China’s understanding of and capability to carry out a protracted war in the Indo-Pacific, with this volume comprising papers authored by panelists.

Cognitive Defense: 2024 Homeland Defense Symposium

Pentagon News — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:39:00 GMT

Using disinformation and social media means, cognitive warfare seeks to shape the attitudes and behaviors of a civilian populace by negatively influencing and disrupting their cognitive processes, thus weakening a society’s political will and degrading national resilience. The authors of these papers provide insights and offer solutions for cognitive defense.

Decisive Decade: PRC Global Strategy and the PLA as a Pacing Challenge – 2023 PLA Conference – Updated and Expanded

US Army War College Press — Mon, 20 May 2024 15:20:00 GMT

The US Army War College’s 2023 Conference on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was held February 22 to 24, 2023, at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. The conference, entitled “Decisive Decade: PRC Global Strategy and the PLA as Pacing Challenge,” featured expert presentations and papers on PRC global and regional strategy and the PLA’s enabling role.

PLA Logistics and Sustainment: PLA Conference 2022

Pentagon News — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 05:00:00 GMT

George R. Shatzer, Roger D. Cliff — Conference Papers by the US Army War College, US Army War College Press, Strategic Studies Institute — "The US Army War College People’s Liberation Army Conference (PLA) Conference was held March 31 to April 2, 2022, at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. The conference focused on PLA logistics and sustainment. As the PLA continues to build and modernize its combat forces, it is important to examine if the capabilities meant to support combat operations are also being developed."

Enabling a More Externally Focused and Operational PLA – 2020 PLA Conference Papers

Pentagon News — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 04:00:00 GMT

Roger Cliff and Roy KamphausenWith Lucie Béraud-Sudreau, David Brewster, Christopher Cairns, R. Evan

The People of the PLA 2.0

Pentagon News — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:00:00 GMT

The People of the PLA 2.0 — Roy D. Kamphausen — Monograph by the US Army War College, US Army War College Press, Strategic Studies Institute — "The 27th annual People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Conference—“The People in the PLA” 2.0—revisited a theme first explored at the 2006 conference but understudied since. This volume examines how the structure, education, training, and recruitment of PLA personnel have changed in the last decade and in the Xi Jinping era."