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The "people" in the PLA : recruitment, training, and education in China's military / Roy Kamphausen, Andrew Scobell, Travis Tanner, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Strategic Studies Institute Reports ; 2008.
- Strategic Studies Institute Reports ; 2008
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--History.
- China.
- China--Military policy.
- Military education--China.
- Military education.
- Military policy.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 395 pages)
- Other Title:
- People in the People's Liberation Army
- Recruitment, training, and education in China's military
- Place of Publication:
- [Carlisle, Pa.] : Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College, 2008.
- Summary:
- "As part of its larger reform effort to modernize and transform its military into a technologically sophisticated force, the PLA has implemented a number of measures aimed at training up a "new-type" officer for its modernized forces--one capable of operating effectively in a technologically advanced "informationalized" environment."
- Contents:
- Introduction / Roy Kamphausen, Andrew Scobell, Travis Tanner
- Trends in education and training, 1924-2007 : from Whampoa to Nanking Polytechnic / Thomas J. Bickford
- "True is false, false is true, virtual is reality, reality is virtual" : technology and simulation in the Chinese military training revolution / James Mulvenon
- PLA conscript and noncommissioned officer individual training / Dennis J. Blasko
- Building the fighting strength : PLA officer accession, education, training, and utilization / John F. Corbett, Edward C. O'Dowd, David D. Chen
- Reforming the officer corps : keeping the college grads in, the peasants out, and the incompetent down / Kristin Gunness, Fred Vellucci
- PLA career progressions and policies / Elizabeth Hague
- Educating "new-type military talent" : the PLA's command colleges / Nan Li
- The cradle of generals : strategists, commanders, and the PLA-National Defense University / Paul H.B. Godwin
- Shaping China's next generation of military leaders : for what kind of army? / Ellis Joffe.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed September 24, 2008).
- "September 2008."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-388).
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2025.
- Other Format:
- Print version: "People" in the PLA.
- ISBN:
- 158487354X
- 9781584873549
- OCLC:
- 256468284
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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