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Crossing the Strait: China's military prepares for war with Taiwan

edited by Joel Wuthnow, Derek Grossman, Phillip C. Saunders, Andrew Scobell, Andrew N.D. Yang
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Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press, 2022
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword, Michael T. Plehn
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Crossing the Strait: PLA modernization and Taiwan, Phillip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow
  • Part I: China's decisionmaking calculus
  • 1. Three logics of Chinese policy toward Taiwan: an analytic framework, Philip C. Saunders
  • 2. China's calculus on the use of force: futures, costs, benefits, risks, and goals, Andrew Scobell.
  • Part II: PLA operations and concepts for Taiwan
  • 3. An assessment of China's options for military coercion of Taiwan, Mathieu Duchâtel
  • 4. Firepower strike, blockade, landing: PLA campaigns for a cross-strait conflict
  • 5. "Killing rats in a porcelain shop": PLA urban warfare in a Taiwan campaign, Sale Lilly
  • Part III: Chinese forces and the impact of reform
  • 6. PLA army and marine corps amphibious brigades in a post-reform military, Joshua Arostegui
  • 7. The PLA airborne corps in a Taiwan scenario
  • 8. Getting there: Chinese military and civilian sealift in a cross-strait invasion, Conor M. Kennedy
  • 9. PLA logistics and mobilization capacity in a Taiwan invasion, Chieh Chung
  • 10. Who does what? Chinese command and control in a Taiwan scenario, Joel Wuthnow
  • Part IV: Strengthening Taiwan's defenses
  • 11. A net assessment of Taiwan's overall defense concept, Alexander Chieh-cheng Huang
  • 12. Winning the fight Taiwan cannot afford to lose, Drew Thompson
  • About the contributors.
  • Index.
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Contributors:
Wuthnow, Joel , editor
Grossman, Derek , editor
Saunders, Phillip C. (Phillip Charles), 1966- , editor
Scobell, Andrew , editor
Yang, Andrew N. D. , editor
National Defense University , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Other Related Resources:
Print version: Crossing the Strait (OCLC Number 1353815299)
Alternate Titles:
China's military prepares for war with Taiwan
Subjects:
Military planning — China — Strategic aspects
Security, International — East Asia
National security — Taiwan
Government policy
International relations
National security
Security, International
Taiwan — International status — Forecasting
China — Government policy — Taiwan
China — Relations — Taiwan
China
East Asia
Taiwan
Military planning
Strategic aspects of individual places
Forecasting
Relations
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF cover page (NDU, viewed August 17, 2022).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) : color map
Digital Characteristics:
text file; PDF
Call Numbers:
D 5.402:T 13/2
SuDocs Numbers:
D 5.402:T 13/2
ISBNs:
9780996824989
0996824987
Other Standard Numbers:
Government Printing Office Item Number: 0378-H-01 (online)
OCLC Numbers:
1341304032