13 July 2010

New Volume on “The PLA at Home and Abroad” Released at U.S. Capitol on 13 July

Roy Kamphausen, David Lai, and Andrew Scobell, eds., The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China’s Military (Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College and National Bureau of Asian Research, July 2010).

The editors of the volume discussed its contents on 13 July 2010 at the South Congressional Meeting Room, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, from 9:30-11:00 AM. 

2009 PLA Conference—

The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China’s Military

The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) partnered with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College for a fourth year and with the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University for the second year to convene the 20th annual People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Conference in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 25–27 September 2009.

The conference, “The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China’s Military,” began with a keynote address by Admiral Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence, and explored the broad range of operational capabilities of China’s military.

Conference Publications

2009 PLA Conference Colloquium Brief: “The PLA at Home and Abroad” by Daniel Alderman.

Released by the Strategic Studies Institute in January 2010, this colloquium brief summarizes key insights from the 2009 conference.

The table of contents of the volume is listed below:

THE PLA AT HOME AND ABROAD
Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China’s Military

(July 2010)

CONTENTS

Foreword

George H.W. Bush

Introduction

David Lai

1. The People’s Liberation Army and the Changing Global Security Landscape

Paul H.B. Godwin

2. Discourse in 3-D: The PLA’s Evolving Doctrine, Circa 2009

Andrew Scobell

3. Changing Civil-Military Relations in China

You Ji and Daniel Alderman

4. Towards an Integrative C4ISR System: Informationization and Joint Operations in the People’s Liberation Army

Kevin Pollpeter

5. The People’s Liberation Army and China’s Internal Security Challenges

Harold M. Tanner

6. Chinese Sea Power in Action: The Counter Piracy Mission in the Gulf of Aden and Beyond

Andrew S. Erickson

7. People’s Liberation Army and People’s Armed Police Ground Exercises with Foreign Forces, 2002-2009

Dennis J. Blasko

8. Military Exchanges with Chinese Characteristics: The People’s Liberation Army Experience with Military Relations

Heidi Holz and Kenneth Allen

9. Emerging Grand Strategy for China’s Defense Industry Reform

Eric Hagt

10. Taming the Hydra: Trends in China’s Military Logistics Since 2000

Susan M. Puska