Chairman Xi remakes the PLA : assessing Chinese military reforms / edited by Phillip C. Saunders, Arthur S. Ding, Andrew Scobell, Andrew N.D. Yang, and Joel Wuthnow.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Saunders, Phillip C. (Phillip Charles), 1966- editor.

Ding, Arthur S., editor.

Scobell, Andrew, editor.

Yang, Andrew N. D., editor.

Wuthnow, Joel, editor.

National Defense University, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xi, Jinping.

China. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun--Reorganization.

China.

China. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun.

China--Armed Forces--Reorganization.

China--Military policy.

Military planning--China.

Military planning.

Administrative agencies--Reorganization.

Armed Forces--Reorganization.

Military policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 768 pages) : illustrations, maps

Other Title:

Assessing Chinese military reforms

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Foreign analysts have only begun to explore the contents, drivers, and possible implications of Xi's campaign to restructure the PLA. Many issues remain shrouded in uncertainty and warrant further examination. These include: what impacts the reforms are having on PLA operations, training, and logistics; the prospects for the ground forces as the reforms' nominal biggest loser, as well as the other services; challenges the PLA is facing in cultivating operational commanders; the structure, roles, and missions of the SSF and JLSF; how the downsizing is being carried out, and what impact it might have on social stability; the implications of reform for Party control over, and Xi's influence within, the PLA; whether and how the reforms will improve coordination between the PLA and the civilian science and technology sector; what the implications might be for the defense acquisition process. This volume explores these and other dimensions of China's military reforms as they were planned and implemented between 2013 and 2018.

Contents:

Introduction. Chairman Xi remakes the PLA, Joel Wuthnow and Philip C. Saunders.

Part I: Drivers and strategic context.

1. Breaking the paradigm: drivers behind the PLA's current period of reform, David M. Finkelstein.

2. Choosing the :least bad option:: organizational interests and change in the PLA ground forces, John Chen.

3. The impacts of Xi-era reforms on the Chinese Navy, Ian Burns McCaslin and Andres S. Erickson.

4. The flag lags but follows: the PLA and China's great leap outward, Andrew Scobell and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga.

Part II: Building a joint force.

Toward a more joint, combat ready PLA? Mark R Cozad.

Coming to a (new) theater near you: command, control, and forces, Edmund J. Burke and Arthur Chan.

7. Handling logistics in a reformed PLA: the long march toward joint logistics, LeighAnn Luce and Erin Richter.

A modern major general: building joint commanders in the PLA, Joel Wuthnow and Philip C. Saunders.

Part III: Overhauling services.

PLA force reductions: impact on the services, Daniel Gearin.

The biggest loser in Chinese military reforms: the PLA Army, Dennis J. Blasko.

Making sense of China's missile forces, David C. Logan.

China's strategic support force: a force for a new era, John Costello and Joe McReynolds.

Part IV: Centralizing authority.

Large and in charge: civil-military relations under Xi Jinping, Philip C. Saunders and Joel Whthnow.

The new PLA leadership: Xi molds China's military to his vision, Joel McFadden, Kim Fassler, and Justin Godby.

Part V. Integrating with society.

Keeping up with the Jundui: reforming the Chinese defense, acquisition, technology, and industrial system, Tai Ming Cheung.

Civil-military integration and PLS reforms, Brian Lafferty.

System overload? The 2015 PLA force reduction, military-locality relations, and the potential for social instability, Ma Chengkun and John Chen.

Conclusion: assessing Chinese military reforms, Philip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow.

About the contributors.

Index.

Notes:

Other than the introduction and conclusion, all the chapters in this book were originally presented as part of the PLA conference series co-sponsored by Taiwan's Council of Advanced Policy Studies (CAPS), National Defense University (NDU), and the RAND Corporation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (NDU, viewed February 22, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Chairman Xi remakes the PLA

OCLC:

1087503347