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Search - Chinese Military Power: 2009 Defense Department Report, Taiwan, Naval, Air, Space Forces, Modernization, Arms Sales, Comprehensive Coverage of China Military Programs (Ringbound Book and CD-ROM Set)

Chinese Military Power 2009 Defense Department Report Taiwan Naval Air Space Forces Modernization Arms Sales Comprehensive Coverage of China Military Programs - Ringbound Book and CD-ROM Set
Author: Department of Defense

This ringbound book and CD-ROM disc set provides a comprehensive guide to China's military programs, including a reproduction of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Report to Congress on Military Power of the People's Republic of China. The disc has over 26,000 pages and includes coverage of all aspects of the Chinese military program along w... more »ith space activities. Contents include: a collection of all DOD China military power reports from 2002 through 2009; ASAT test and response; ballistic missile threat report; China air and space review; China manned space program; China nuclear force modernization; proliferation practices; security developments; space activities report; policy papers and reports from the White House, Department of Defense, Department of State, and Congress. Contents of the military report include: China's strategy, doctrine, view of warfare, secrecy and deception in PLA military strategy, asymmetric warfighting, force modernization goals and trends, strategic capabilities, power projection and modernization beyond Taiwan, expenditure trends, defense industries, security in the Taiwan Strait, size, location, and capabilities of the PRC military forces, global military engagement, joint exercises, arms sales, and more. The executive summary states: "China's rapid rise as a regional political and economic power with growing global influence has significant implications for the Asia-Pacific region and the world. The United States welcomes the rise of a stable, peaceful, and prosperous China, and encourages China to participate responsibly in world affairs by taking on a greater share of the burden for the stability, resilience, and growth of the international system. The United States has done much over the last 30 years to encourage and facilitate China's national development and its integration into the international system. However, much uncertainty surrounds China's future course, particularly regarding how its expanding military power might be used. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is pursuing comprehensive transformation from a mass army designed for protracted wars of attrition on its territory to one capable of fighting and winning short-duration, high-intensity conflicts along its periphery against high-tech adversaries - an approach that China refers to as preparing for "local wars under conditions of informatization." The pace and scope of China's military transformation have increased in recent years, fueled by acquisition of advanced foreign weapons, continued high rates of investment in its domestic defense and science and technology industries, and far-reaching organizational and doctrinal reforms of the armed forces. China's ability to sustain military power at a distance remains limited, but its armed forces continue to develop and field disruptive military technologies, including those for anti-access/area-denial, as well as for nuclear, space, and cyber warfare, that are changing regional military balances and that have implications beyond the Asia-Pacific region. The PLA's modernization vis-à-vis Taiwan has continued over the past year, including its build-up of short-range missiles opposite the island. In the near-term, China's armed forces are rapidly developing coercive capabilities for the purpose of deterring Taiwan's pursuit of de jure independence. These same capabilities could in the future be used to pressure Taiwan toward a settlement of the cross-Strait dispute on Beijing's terms while simultaneously attempting to deter, delay, or deny any possible U.S. support for the island in case of conflict. This modernization and the threat to Taiwan continue despite significant reduction in cross-Strait tension over the last year since Taiwan elected a new president."

ISBN-13: 9781422025222
ISBN-10: 1422025225
Publication Date: 2/25/2010
Pages: 74
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Publisher: Progressive Management
Book Type: Ring-bound
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