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  • Deterring the Dragon: Returning U.S. Forces to Taiwan

    by Walker D. Mills, U.S. Army ...
    During the Cold War, the primary objective of the U.S. military's conventional deterrence was to prevent a Soviet invasion of Western Europe and most of the literature on conventional deterrence focused on Europe. Since then, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the expansion of the NATO alliance to include many post-Soviet states have dramatically lowered the threat of a conventional invasion of ... Read more

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  • The Long Game

    China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

    by Rush Doshi ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States ... Read more

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  • Active Defense

    China's Military Strategy since 1949

    by M. Taylor Fravel ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    What changes in China’s modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) calls “strategic guidelines.” What accounts for these numerous changes? Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China’s military strategy from the mid-twentieth ... Read more

    $32.39 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $73.99 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

    $70.99 USD

  • Deploying Feminism

    The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations

    by Stéfanie von Hlatky ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    A detailed account, based on fieldwork and interviews, of how Women, Peace and Security norms are militarized and put at the service of operational effectiveness. International organizations and governments want to increase women's participation in military operations and peacebuilding. Gender equality is increasingly seen as the antidote to conflict, a key factor in achieving stability. While ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • China's Military Power

    Assessing Current and Future Capabilities

    by Roger Cliff ...
    Once termed the 'world's largest military museum', the Chinese military has made enormous progress over the past twenty years. With skyrocketing military budgets and new technology, China's tanks, aircraft, destroyers, and missile capabilities are becoming comparable to those of the United States. If these trends continue, how powerful will the Chinese military be in the future? Will its ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century

    Theory, History, and Practice

    Edited by Thomas G. Mahnken ...
    The U.S. today faces the most complex and challenging security environment in recent memory— even as it deals with growing constraints on its ability to respond to threats. Its most consequential challenge is the rise of China, which increasingly has the capability to deny the U.S. access to areas of vital national interest and to undermine alliances that have underpinned regional stability for ... Read more

    $28.69 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

    $28.79 USD

  • Defending Taiwan

    The Future Vision of Taiwan's Defence Policy and Military Strategy

    Edited by Martin Edmonds, Michael Tsai ...
    Recent concern about mainland China's intentions towards Taiwan, and more general concern about the risk of instability in the region, has led to growing interest in Taiwan's military strategy, in how Taiwan perceives threats to itself, and in how the Taiwanese military are reacting to these perceived threats. This book, which includes contributions by leading Taiwanese military thinkers, explores ... Read more

    $65.99 USD