A01=Ka Po Ng
Active Defence Strategy
army
Asian security studies
Author_Ka Po Ng
Beijing Military Region
Category=G
Category=JW
China's Military
China's Military Doctrine
China’s Military Doctrine
chinese
Chinese defence doctrine evaluation
Chinese High Command
Chinese Military
Chinese Military Doctrine
Chinese Military Thinking
combined
Combined Arms
Command Automation
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
force structure evolution
Information Warfare
local
Local Limited Wars
Local War
local war theory
Long Range Firepower
maoist
Maoist People's War
Maoist People’s War
Military Doctrine
Military Region
military strategic analysis
National Defence University
operational
operational readiness assessment
people's
People's Liberation Army
People's War
People's War Doctrine
People’s War
People’s War Doctrine
PLA Unit
PLA's High Command
PLA’s High Command
readiness
Sino Vietnamese Conflict
Strategic Rocket Forces
Structural Readiness
war
Product details
- ISBN 9780714655482
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Although inter-state tensions have generally been easing after the Cold War, military power remains a dominant factor in Asian regional politics. As China, operating the world's largest army, grows stronger, there are ongoing debates over the implications for Asia's regional security. This book argues that it is imperative to look beyond the empirical observations and conventional materialist reading of Chinese military development to understand its dynamics and directions in doctrinal terms and put it in a readiness context for evaluation. Military doctrine has long been under-studied and is often treated as a subject separate from force development. But, as this study contends, this factor is necessary for interpreting the making and purposes of China's military power because it forms the intellectual foundation of military structural and hardware development. When loaded with political rhetoric, it also communicates to us the intended uses of the military power. The role of doctrine is reinforced in the context of military readiness, which defines what for and how the army is getting ready. Force development is evaluated in structural, operational and directional terms.
The importance of this analytical framework based on military doctrine and readiness is demonstrated in a survey of the evolutionof Chinese military doctrine and force development. As the Chinese People's Liberation Army has continued to adjust its military structure and operation to follow the doctrinal lead, its switches between the doctines of local war and total war have seen corresponding changes to the emphasis between operational and structural readiness.
Ka Po Ng is an associate professor at Aichi Bunkyo University, Japan. He has received academic distinctions and scholarships from the Australian Commonwealth Government, University of Queensland, Australian National University and the University of Hong Kong. Dr Ng has published on Chinese politics and international relations.
