With the armed forces of the People’s Republic of China (PLA) celebrating its 75th anniversary on August 1, 2002, it only seemed appropriate and timely to take stock of the world’s largest military. The PLA has officially been in existence…
This volume, comprised of papers originally presented at a conference held at Carlisle Barracks in September 2001, helps to put the Hainan Island incident in the broader context of China’s strategic aspirations and its growing military capabilities. This conference’s co-sponsors…
The author examines the impact of strategic culture on 21st century China. He contends that the People’s Republic of China’s security policies and its tendency to use military force are influenced not only by elite understandings of China’s own strategic…
The 1999 PLA Conference, which was hosted jointly by the American Enterprise Institute and the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, convened September 10-12, 1999, at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. The goal of this conference was to comprehensively examine Chinese…
Global arms proliferation continues to be a key concern for the United States, particularly the export role of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Although China experienced a significant decline in its arms exports in the 1990s (down from the…
In May 1995, Secretary of Defense William J. Perry asked the Army to examine various ways to re-establish the army-to-army ties which existed between the U.S. Army and Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) prior to the 1980s. U.S. President George…