Promotional Information

"A must read for serious students of China's military and future strategic objectives." -- James Ace Lyons, U.S. Navy (ret.), Former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations, and deputy Chief of Naval Operations "A useful assessment for those concerned with Taiwan's security and with maintaining America's leadership role in Asia." -- Dr. Michael M. Tsai, Former Minister of National Defense of Taiwan, Vice Minister of National Defense,^LDeputy Secretary of the Taiwan National Security Council, Founder of the Taiwan Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies "China's ongoing military build-up is of great concern to Japan. Rick Fisher's very useful analysis reveals much of what China seeks to conceal." -- Ota Fumio, Vice Admiral, Japan's Maritime Self Defense Force (ret.), Former Director, Japanese Defense Intelligence Headquarters "A must read for all those who are seriously assessing China's military modernization overdrive which is definitely offensive." -- Bhaskar Roy, Foreign policy analyst with a special interest in China, Former intelligence analyst with the Indian government, with service in Indian Embassy in Washington, regular contributor and consultant to the South Asia Analysis Group

Table of Contents

Section currently called Sources Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Chinas Strategic Challenge Chapter 2: The Party Army: Pillar of Chinas Government Chapter 3: Foreign Security Policy Chapter 4: Chinas Military Transformation Chapter 5: Military-Technical Sector Transformation Chapter 6: Building For Local War Dominance Chapter 7: Building For Future Power Projection Chapter 8: How The CCP-PLA Challenges America and its Allies

About the Author

RICHARD D. FISHER JR. is a Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center (June 2004 to present) and the Director of the Center's Project on Asian Security and Democracy. He was formerly an Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, editor of the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief, a Senior Fellow with the Republican Policy Committee of the House of Representatives and Director of the Asian Studies Center of the Heritage Foundation. His articles and reports have appeared in numerous national newspapers and journals.

Reviews

In this book, Richard Fisher focuses primarily on 'hard power,' the hardware and military strategies that the Chinese People's Liberation Arme (PLA) is bringing to bear on the Asia-Pacific region and world military affairs. He also does an excellent job discussing the doctrine, training, and operational plans to use this hardware. . . . Fisher has amassed a solid record related to military systems analysis. . . . Read this book. Buy it if you can afford it; but at least get your librarian to order it. Fisher has produced the best comprehensive study of China's military modernization in a decade.
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