<p>An Excerpt from the back of the "No longer confined to China's land territory or its near abroad, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is conducting increasingly complex operations farther and farther from China's continental borders. Within Asia, the PLA now regularly operates into the far reaches of the South China Sea and deep into the Western Pacific, enforcing China's territorial claims and preparing to counter U.S. intervention in a regional conflict...."</p>

The PLA Beyond Borders: Chinese Military Operations in Regional and Global Context

Andrew Scobell

Joel Wuthnow

Arthur S. Ding

Philip C. Saunders

Andrew N.D. Yang

National Defense University Press

The costs of conflict: The impact on China of a future war

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

North Korea is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. Although it remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and cloth 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 it submarine fleet, quantity of ballistic missiles in its arsenal, or its substantial weapons of mass destruction programs, Pyongyang is a major military power. North Korea's latest act to demonstrate its might was the seismic event of October 9, 2006.The authors of this monograph set out to assess the capabilities and discern the intentions of North Korea's People's Army. This publication if the fourth in a series titled "Demystifying North Korea," the products of a project directed by Dr. Andrew Scobell.Published by the Strategic Studies Institute April 2007

North Korea's Military Threat: Pyongyang's Conventional Forces, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Ballistic Missiles

Projecting Pyongyang: The Future of North Korea's Kim Jong Il Regime

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Strategic Studies Institute

Fueled by double-digit growth in spending in recent years, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has undergone a staggering transformation from an anachronistic, unwieldy vestige of the Mao era to a more mobile and high-tech military force. The PLA's capabilities have increased in tandem with China's rising power and expanding national interests, and have seen the force involved in an increasing number and variety of missions at home and abroad, in addition to its traditional focus on contingencies in the Taiwan Strait. Such missions have included disaster and humanitarian relief, United Nations peacekeeping operations, counterterrorism, cyber security and anti-piracy, among others.These new or enhanced PLA missions suggest many important questions:  How do these expansive new missions affect the evolution of the PLA's objectives and capabilities? Are they accompanied by new PLA doctrines for their use? How will they affect the security environment of the Asia Pacific and beyond?

Beyond the Strait: PLA Missions Other Than Taiwan

David Lai

Roy Kamphausen

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