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  • China's Military Faces the Future

    by James Lilley, David L. Shambaugh ...
    This is the most up-to-date assessment of all aspects of the People's Liberation Army. Leading specialists on the Chinese military cover military leadership, defense doctrine and military readiness, preparations for high-tech warfare, military expenditure, military logistics, the scientific and technological base for defense procurement, and China's security concerns in Northeast Asia. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • THE TRUE FORCE OF NORTH KOREA: Military, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Ballistic Missiles, Including Reaction of the U.S. Government to the Korean Military Threat

    by Andrew Scobell, John M. Sanford, Daniel A. Pinkston, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Congress, Donald Trump ...
    North Korea is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. Although it remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world's largest armed forces. Whether measured in terms of the total number of personnel in uniform, numbers of special operations soldiers, the size of its submarine fleet, quantity of ballistic missiles in its ... Read more

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  • The Dragon's Teeth

    The Chinese People's Liberation Army - Its History, Traditions, and Air Sea and Land Capability in the 21st Century

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    An in-depth look at the past, present, and future of China's military.When Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s—when domestic policy brought about monumental changes. The result ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Security Policy

    Structure, Power and Politics

    by Robert Ross ...
    This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Chinese security policy, comprising essays written by one of America's leading scholars.Chinese Security Policy covers such fundamental areas as the role of international structure in state behavior, the use of force in international politics (including deterrence, coercive diplomacy, and war), and the sources of great-power ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Great Wall at Sea, Second Edition

    China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century

    by Bernard D Cole USN (Ret.) ...
    Bernard Cole takes a comprehensive look at China’s Navy, a Navy that continues to grow while the U.S. Navy shrinks. Of particular note, according to the author, is Beijing’s increased attention to guarding its vital sea lanes because of the nation’s growing dependence on maritime trade, especially energy supplies. He provides a thorough description of China’s naval establishment, including its ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Chinese Army Today

    Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century

    by Dennis J. Blasko ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the institution.In 1999, the military modernization program of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army increased in intensity and achieved a focus not ... Read more

    Was $73.99 USD Now $65.99 USD

  • The Arms Race in Asia

    Trends, causes and implications

    by Andrew T.H. Tan ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This book is the first systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia.The global trade in arms is to a large degree underpinned by the strong demand for arms in Asia and the Middle East, the two largest arms export markets in the world. Of these two regions Asia has become particularly significant, led by the emergence of China and India as major powers. It is therefore not surprising ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • China's Rising Sea Power

    The PLA Navy's Submarine Challenge

    by Peter Howarth ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century.China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets challenged dominant maritime powers for regional hegemony: Germany in two World Wars and the Soviet Union ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • PLA Influence on China's National Security Policymaking

    Edited by Phillip C. Saunders, Andrew Scobell ...
    In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military—suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential PLA is driving more assertive Chinese policies on a range of military and sovereignty issues. To many ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Operation Kinetic

    Stabilizing Kosovo

    by Sean M. Maloney ...
    In the late 1990s, NATO led the Kosovo Force (KFOR), charged with stabilizing Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after genocide and other atrocities were carried out in the Balkan region. Operation Kinetic is not only a history of the origins and operations of the Kosovo Force but also a history of the vital operations conducted by the Canadian Army units and their allies ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • People's Liberation Army Navy

    Combat Systems Technology, 1949-2010

    by James C Bussert, Bruce A Elleman ...
    There are a few books on all naval weapon systems for all nations in the world. These are limited in many Chinese technologies, with not a single entry on several important areas such as communications, weapon integration/ control and sonars. There are other excellent books on PLAN organization, high level assumed goals and political structure, but little on actual ship combat system details ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Last Days of Kim Jong-il

    The North Korean Threat in a Changing Era

    by Bruce Bechtol, Jr. ...
    North Korea has remained a thorn in the side of the United States ever since its creation in the aftermath of the Korean conflict of 1950û1953. Crafting a foreign policy that effectively deals with North Korea, while still ensuring stability and security on the Korean Peninsulaùand in Northeast Asia as a wholeùhas proved very challenging for successive American administrations. In the wake of ... Read more

    $29.95 USD