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China's Military Power: Assessing Current and Future Capabilities

By Roger Cliff

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781107502956, 9781107103542, 2015005489
ASIN
B015WJ100C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2460251 bytes)
Pages
378\379
Time added
2020-11-22 23:56:45

Description

Once termed the 'world's largest military museum', the Chinese military has made enormous progress over the past twenty years. With skyrocketing military budgets and new technology, China's tanks, aircraft, destroyers, and missile capabilities are becoming comparable to those of the United States. If these trends continue, how powerful will the Chinese military be in the future? Will its capabilities soon rival or surpass those of the United States? The most comprehensive study of its kind, this book provides a detailed assessment of China's military capabilities in 2000 and 2010 with projections for 2020. It is the first of its kind in outlining a rigorous, theoretically and empirically grounded framework for assessing military capability based on not just weaponry but also doctrine, training, equipment, and organizational structure. This framework provides not only the most accurate assessment of China's military to date but an important new tool in the study of military history.

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