A Poverty of Riches: New Challenges and Opportunities in PLA Research

PREFACE......Page 3
TABLES......Page 9
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 11
GLOSSARY, LIST OF SYMBOLS, ETC.......Page 13
INTRODUCTION......Page 15
BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MILITARY EDUCATION UNDER MAO......Page 16
PME IN THE POST-MAO ERA......Page 20
Rebuilding and Expanding PME in the 1980s......Page 21
Development of Graduate Courses......Page 24
Foreign Academic Exchange......Page 25
Teaching and Other Classroom Issues......Page 26
Increased Emphasis on the Importance of PME......Page 29
ASSESSMENT AND CONCLUSION......Page 34
General Staff Department and Ground Force Academies......Page 36
PLAAF Academies......Page 37
Other Academic Organizations......Page 38
CHINESE CONCEPTIONS OF FUTURE WARFARE......Page 39
The Role of Space in the Chinese View of Future Warfare......Page 42
REVIEW OF THE CHINESE SPACE PROGRAM......Page 45
Current Chinese Space Capabilities......Page 47
Table 2.1 FSW Satellites......Page 51
Future Chinese Capabilities......Page 56
Likely Chinese Space Operations......Page 57
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES OF CHINA’S SPACE CAPABILI......Page 61
INTRODUCTION......Page 63
TECHNICAL MATTERS......Page 65
News Sources......Page 66
Military and Military-Related Periodicals......Page 68
Military and Military Related Organizations......Page 70
Reference Sources......Page 72
Chortal Military Channels......Page 73
Enthusiast Sites......Page 74
Bulletin Boards and Chat Rooms......Page 75
Bibliographic Control......Page 76
Enhanced Exploitation......Page 77
Potential Empirical Contributions......Page 78
CONCLUSION......Page 82
CIVILIAN PAPERS......Page 84
ONLINE NEWS......Page 85
Table 3.2 Military and Military-Related Periodicals (General......Page 86
Table 3.3 Military and Military-Related Periodicals (Aerospa......Page 89
Table 3.4 Military and Military-Related Periodicals (Aviatio......Page 93
Table 3.5 Military and Military-Related Periodicals (Nationa......Page 95
Table 3.6 Military and Military-Related Periodicals (Ordnanc......Page 97
Table 3.7 Military and Military-Related Periodicals (Shipbui......Page 101
Table 3.8 Military and Military-Related Periodicals (Technol......Page 104
Table 3.9 Defense Industries (General)......Page 109
Table 3.10 Defense Industries (Electronics And High Technolo......Page 110
Table 3.11 Defense Industries (Nuclear)......Page 111
Table 3.12 Defense Industries (Aerospace)......Page 112
Table 3.13 Defense Industries (Aviation)......Page 114
Table 3.14 Defense Industries (Ordnance and Armament)......Page 115
Table 3.15 Defense Industries (Shipbuilding And Maritime)......Page 116
Table 3.16 Defense Related Publishing Houses......Page 117
Table 3.17 Internet Portal Military Channels......Page 119
Table 3.18 Military Enthusiast Homepages......Page 122
Table 3.19 Military Enthusiast Bulletin Boards......Page 131
INTRODUCTION......Page 133
Proliferation of Research Materials on the Chinese Military......Page 134
New Research Directories......Page 135
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries......Page 136
Books......Page 137
Monographs and Book Series......Page 138
Magazines and Journals......Page 139
Electronic Databases......Page 140
NET ASSESSMENT OF NEW AND NEWLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION ON THE......Page 141
Toward A Criteria for Evaluating Chinese Military Publicatio......Page 143
Doctrine with Chinese Characteristics......Page 146
PLA Life, Politics and Personalities......Page 147
Defense Economics and Weapons Development......Page 148
Current PLA Force Structure, Capabilities, and Force Plannin......Page 150
CONCLUSIONS......Page 151
By Andrew Scobell......Page 183
ORIGINS OF THE TERM MARTIAL LAW......Page 184
NON-COMMUNIST CHINA EXPERIENCE WITH MARTIAL LAW......Page 185
Martial Law in PRC History......Page 186
THE LEGAL STATUS OF MARTIAL LAW IN THE DENG ERA......Page 187
PRC DEFINITIONS AND RATIONALES......Page 188
Rationales......Page 191
MECHANICS AND LOGISTICS......Page 192
Enforcement of Martial Law......Page 196
Maintenance of Martial Law......Page 198
The Administration of Martial Law......Page 199
Lifting of Martial Law......Page 200
Significance of the Imposition of Martial Law in 1989......Page 201
THE PROMULGATION OF JIEYAN FA......Page 202
Significance of the 1996 Jieyan Fa......Page 204
CONCLUSION: “MARTIAL LAW LITE”?......Page 205
Historical Evolution......Page 207
Strategy and Policy......Page 210
Infrastructure......Page 211
Table 6.1 Partial List of PLA Participation in Military-Civi......Page 214
Organization of the C4I Effort......Page 216
Information Security......Page 219
Conclusions......Page 221