Format:
1 online resource (186 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780833040817
Content:
Considers potential Chinese responses to U.S. transformation efforts and offers possible U.S. counterresponses.
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE- Introduction -- Background -- Approach -- Context -- Options -- Signposts -- Implications -- Organization of the Report -- CHAPTER TWO- Contextual Factors Shaping China's Response Options -- Contradictory National Security Goals and Responses to U.S. Military Transformation -- Key National Security Goals -- Regime Survival, Political Stability -- Increasing "Comprehensive National Power" and Military Modernization -- Preventing Taiwan Independence -- Economic Modernization:The Key Instrument-and the Key Constraint -- Contradictions Among Beijing's Security Goals -- Contextual Challenges and Constraints on DefenseModernization -- Trends in Cross-Strait Relations -- Stiffening Competition for Financial and Budgetary Resources -- Political Instability as an "Opportunity Cost" on National Security -- Militarily Relevant Technology Base -- The Impact of Contextual Forces on China's ResponseStrategies -- CHAPTER THREE- Chinese Counter-Transformation Options:A Methodological Introduction -- Defining Network-Centric Warfare -- Typologizing Chinese Response Options -- CHAPTER FOUR- Option One: Conventional Modernization "Plus" -- From People's War to Local War Under High-Tech Conditions -- PLA Strategic Response to High-Tech Enemies -- Seizing the Initiative -- Attacking the Center of Gravity -- Assessment of Chinese Strategy -- Operationalizing Chinese Strategies with Conventional Forces -- Attacks Against Naval Targets -- Space Warfare -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FIVE- Option Two: Subversion, Sabotage, and Information Operations -- Center of Gravity Number One:The Will of the People on Taiwan -- Center of Gravity Number Two: U.S. Military Intervention -- Strategies for Attacking U.S. Logistics -- General IO and CNA Analysis.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780833037688
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780833037688
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=784072
