How will China use its increasing military capabilities in the future? China faces a complicated security environment with a wide range of internal and external threats. Rapidly expanding international interests are creating demands for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to conduct new missions ranging from protecting Chinese shipping from Somali pirates to evacuating citizens from Libya. The most recent Chinese defense white paper states that the armed forces must "make serious preparations to cope with the most complex and difficult scenarios ... so as to ensure proper responses ... at any time and under any circumstances." Based on a conference co-sponsored by Taiwan's Council of Advanced Policy Studies, RAND, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and National Defense University, this book brings together leading experts from the United States and Taiwan to examine how the PLA prepares for a range of domestic, border, and maritime contingencies. The book includes chapters on how the PLA, domestic security forces, and the civilian government conduct contingency planning and how military commanders can draw upon national level military assets and mobilize civilian resources to execute their plans. Substantive chapters assess PLA planning for potential domestic contingencies such as suppressing internal unrest, border contingencies involving India, Myanmar, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and maritime contingencies in both the near and the far seas. Authors also examine PLA preparations and performance in disaster relief, counterpiracy, and noncombatant evacuation operations. Improving PLA capabilities are giving Chinese leaders new options to respond to domestic and international crises, but the PLA still has significant limitations in projecting and sustaining power, especially in contested environments.
The PLA and contingency planning in China, Phillip C. Saunders. -- I. Thinking and planning for contingencies. -- The PLA and contingency planning, Mark Cozad. -- PLA observations on U.S. contingency planning: what has it learned? Marcelyn L. Thompson. -- China plans for internal unrest: People's Armed Police and public security approaches to "mass incidents", Jonathan Walton. -- Civilian authorities and contingency planning in China, Catherine Welch. -- Converting the potential to the actual: Chinese mobilization policies and planning, Dean Cheng. -- Employment of national-level PLA assets in a contingency: a cross-strait conflict as case study, Mark A. Stokes. -- II Domestic Contingencies. -- China's armed forces respond to internal disaster relief: assessing mobilization and effort, Jeffrey Engstrom and Lyle Morris. -- PLA response to widespread internal unrest, Ma Chengkun. -- III Border contingencies. -- The PLA and cross-border contingencies in North Korea and Burma, Thomas Woodrow. -- PLA contingency planning and the case of India, Larry M. Wortzel. -- Life a good neighbor: Chinese intervention through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Ben Lowsen. -- IV Maritime contingencies. -- The PLA and near seas maritime sovereignty disputes, Alexander Chieh-cheng Huang. -- The PLA and far seas contingencies: Chinese capabilities for noncombatant evacuation operations, Michael S. Chase. -- PLA Navy planning for out of area deployments, Kristen Gunness and Samuel K. Berkowitz. -- About the contributors. -- Index.
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GPO Internet D 5.402:C 44/6
Language
English
Note
Title from title screen (viewed December 7, 2015).
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
The People's Liberation Army and contingency planning in China / edited by Andrew Scobell [and three others].
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press, 2015.
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text
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computer
Type of carrier
online resource
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