Modernising the People’s Liberation Army
Aspiring to be a Global Military Power
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This volume examines the progress made by the Chinese military (the People's Liberation Army, PLA) as it strives to meet its commander-in-chief's directive to transform itself into a more capable fighting force.
The book tracks the reforms undertaken by the PLA in meeting its commander-in-chief's grand objectives set at the 2015 Central Military Commission Reform Work Meeting: for China's armed forces to transform themselves into a more professional and modern military. Focusing on those changes since late 2016 at corps level and below, the first and second sections of the volume document the subsequent force structure and operational changes to the PLA's four conventional services, and two newly established PLA branches: the Strategic Support Force and Joint Logistic Support Force. To that end, the contributors examine the reforms promulgated by the Chinese high command and measure them against observable developments in the PLA's power-projection capabilities. In view of how the instrumentalization of military power is writ large in Beijing's strategic calculus and in regional hotspot issues, the final part of the book also provides pathbreaking insights into two critical but not so well-understood phenomena: the now regular PLA aerial activities in the Taiwan Strait and the PLA Navy's submarine operations in the South China Sea.
This book will be of much interest to students of East Asian security, Chinese politics, and military and strategic studies in general.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction: Modernizing the People’s Liberation Army: Aspiring to Be a Global Military Power
- 2 The PLA Army After “Below-the-Neck” Reforms: Contributing to China’s Joint Warfighting, Deterrence and MOOTW Posture
- 3 Counter-Intervention in an Age of Naval Reform
- 4 Ongoing Organizational Reforms of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force
- 5 Organization and Structural Reforms of the PLA Rocket Force
- 6 The PLA Strategic Support Force: Innovating for Future Warfare
- 7 Joint Logistic Support Force and China’s Military Logistics in an Era of Reform: Organizations, Operations and Challenges
- 8 PLA Flight Activities in Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone
- 9 Beijing’s “Swiss Army Knife” in the South China Sea
- Index