Accession Number:

ADA561749

Title:

The Chinese Navy: Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES

Personal Author(s):

• Saunders, Phillip C.
• Yung, Christopher
• Swaine, Michael
• Yang, Andrew N.

Report Date:

2011-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

344.0

Abstract:

Few issues are as important to U.S. national security analysts as China s military modernization, a process that has benefited directly from the past two decades of dramatic economic expansion. This book addresses the Chinese navy the People s Liberation Army Navy, or PLAN the service that has most dramatically benefited from increased defense funding. This collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China s naval modernization. The book s 10 chapters represent papers delivered at a 2007 conference, but have been updated and, most importantly, framed by expertly written introductory and concluding chapters that bring the book firmly into the century s second decade.

Descriptors:

• *CHINA
• *MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
• *NAVY
• ARMY
• COLLECTION
• DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• ECONOMICS
• JOINT MILITARY ACTIVITIES
• MILITARY CAPABILITIES
• NATIONAL SECURITY
• POLICIES
• SURVEYS

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE