Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War

Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War
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Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War
John Wilson Lewis , and Xue Litai
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ASIN: 0804753911
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This is the fourth and final volume in a pioneering series on the Chinese military. It begins with an examination of Chinese military culture and history, with special attention to the transition from Mao Zedong's revolutionary doctrine and the conflict with Moscow to Beijing's preoccupation with Taiwanese separatism and preparations for war to thwart it. Because such a war might involve the United States, the Chinese have concentrated on measures to deter American intervention. Part II focuses on the military and decision making, first in the National Command Authority and then in the People's Liberation Army's command-and-control prioritizing system. Part III provides a detailed study of the Second Artillery, China's strategic rocket forces. Based in part on interviews, the book provides an unprecedented look at its history, operational structure, modernization, and strategy. This is followed by a historical account of the air force's long effort to modernize and its role in joint operations and air defense. The book concludes with the transformation of military strategy and shows how it is being tested in military exercises with Taiwan and the United States as “imagined enemies."

Red Dragon Rising: Communist China's Military Threat to America

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Insight to China's plans for their perceived enemies.
You fail Ed
There are better books than this one
A Bill of Indictment against the Clinton Administration
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Red Dragon Rising: Communist China's Military Threat to America
Edward Timperlake
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As it flexes its diplomatic and military muscles, China is becoming an increasingly powerful player on the world stage. Richard Bernstein and Ross Munro's flawed but important The Coming Conflict with China analyzed the implications for American policymakers. Edward Timperlake and William Triplett also believe that a confrontation between China and the U.S. is inevitable. In Red Dragon Rising, they describe a series of worst-case scenarios, such as a bloody invasion of Taiwan. If the situation is as dangerous as they indicate, however, they have done America a disservice by the extreme political spin they give their arguments. They attempt to associate the Clinton administration with every evil of which China's unsavory Communist regime is capable. Photographs of Clinton and Gore talking with Chinese leaders are illustrated to prove their complicity with butchers--but what should we make of photos of Bush doing the same? A reference to Chinese New Year as Tet, a purely Vietnamese term, suggests the parameters of the authors' experience. In a disclaimer on the cover, they state that their details of the Tiananmen massacre are necessary to show the true nature of Communist China's government, but their lurid descriptions are gratuitous. This work is not balanced analysis or serious contemporary history but party-political poison. Red Dragon Rising is a cheap book, full of cheap shots (it is simplistic to hold China, for all its faults, responsible for "two million Cambodians killed"), whose political bias cheapens its important subject. Right-wing conspiracy theorists will love this book; others will not. --John Stevenson

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For China, the Cold War never ended.

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Insight to China's plans for their perceived enemies........2007-05-08

This book spells out the known weapons China has, as well as what destruction they can reap. It is frightening in what China has armed know enemies of the US with. It does indeed credit Russia with selling the weapons to China. It points out how naive people are in this nation. Any one who reads this book should be ready to fight to keep his weapon least he become like the people in Tiananmen Square.

You fail Ed.......2007-04-28

Let's see, nearly a decade after the first edition of this book was published and narry a missile fired between the U.S. and China. In fact, the two nations have only become more cooperative with each other, i.e. Korea, currency revaluation, the war on terror, etc.

Can we just ignore these "so-and-so is a 'coming threat' to America" paranoid delusions? I think there are more important, and more real enemies to America that would need to be dealt with, rather than muddy the waters with paranoid speculations.

There are better books than this one.......2005-06-13

I bought this book to see China's potential growth in every respect. I am very disappointed after reading the book. At the introduction of the book author gives his solution as "Double the military and double again if needed be. Build more B-2 ,F-22 , F/A 18 airplanes. Mobilize the industry for munitions production. Go forward for ballistic missile systems". Also he curses Clinton Administration countless times for its foreign policy and promotes Bush presidency. He claims that Clinton got campaign money from China and favors them. What about Bush-Saudý-9/11 connections? Not even a word.

He also trying to show Chinese Regime brutality like selling weapons to both sides at Iraq-Iran war (no word from Senior Bush, and Oliver North), Selling guns to 3rd world countries and make money (No Saudi-US gun Trade mentioned), no respect to UN decisions (What Mr. Bush did in Iraq?) Selling missile systems to Pakistan while US forcing sanctions (Mr. Bush lifted the sanctions after 9/11 to non-Democratic Pakistan regime).

He insists that's why US must declare war against China, not strategic partnership like Clinton did. Strategic partnership gives China open ýtself to the world and influenced by democratic system. On the long run, Chinese people will select democracy and bury the old communist regime like East Europe did.

There are many right points in the book like Týananmen Square Massacre, but the these accurate points fades due to being Clinton hater.

If you want to learn something about China, this one sided, extreme rightist book is not the one. Do not buy it and do not read it.

A Bill of Indictment against the Clinton Administration.......2005-02-21

And you believed in the myth of China's peaceful rise? You do so at your peril. China has a long history of aggression and threatening its neighbors. Today, it has a greater capacity to wreck havok than it has at any point in its Communist history, and we to a large extent have Clinton to blame for it. There is plenty of evidence provided from reputable sources regarding the manner in which the Chinese government infultrated the Clinton Administration, as well as the ever present threat that China presents not only to the United States, but also its Asian neighbors like Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and most of all Taiwan.

Works like this are ignored at our peril. For a long time, people have seemed to believe the in best possibility for Communist China, always to have been shown for ignorance in the end. Those who adulate over China today run the same risk. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, there are too many people who have a lack of knowledge of China's history to know the true nature of the threat. This book will go some of the way to alleviating that ignorance.

The Red Chinese Threat to U.S. National Security.......2004-08-31

In the news, I recently heard a People's Liberation Army strategist, Liu Jiangjia, stated brusquely: "War is not far from us now. A new arms race has started to develop." First published in 1999, during the twilight of the Clinton Administration, this Regnery classic has made light of Clinton overtures to Beijing and the startling developments in Red China's military industrial complex. Red China is well on its way to becoming a hegemonic military superpower as her economic liberalization and foreign trade continues to buoy her GDP. Moreover, her military insiders often speak of the U.S. as an "enemy" and a "threat." Red China is embracing what the CIA calls a social market economy. Essentially, kleptocrat communist party bosses are taking the helm in controlling the vibrant military-industrial consortiums with foreign investors. China's economy is developing rapidly. Western expertise and investment from aerospace American companies like Boeing, for example, may prove to be a huge national security risk. (Frankly, American companies in the absence of firm U.S. government controls have proven willingness to compromise American security for profit.) The Clinton Administration presided over an immense relaxation of technology transfer controls and has turned a blind eye to Chinese espionage. Ethnic Chinese have seized economic and/or political control over nations throughout the Pacific Rim. However, one should realize many ethnic Chinese don't have sympathy with the Red regime in Beijing like the Taiwanese. The Chinese have been actively expanding their reach throughout Pacific Rim and are even getting strong Latin American connections. For example, a PLA-affiliated company has seized control of the Panama Canal and has built a transshipment facility in the Bahamas. China could feasibly use Panama as strategic chokepoint cutting off U.S. trade. Obviously this economic jugular vein can be a useful blackmail chip in power politics games. Books like _Red Cocaine_ have demonstrated a considerable Sino-Soviet involvement in the drug trade and no doubt Chinese shipping industry carries opium bound for the Americas. Red China's connection with radical Islamist countries in arms dealings is alarming. If China ever wanted to subject the giant Gulliver to a campaign of terrorism, it's conceivable she could do so covertly by arming and assisting efforts of radical Islamist terrorists. China has demonstrated a willingness to work with radical Islamist regimes and Muslim nations to enhance their military and nuclear programs. Some of the more dangerous technology transfers of U.S. knowledge to Red China may be through intermediaries like Israel. The authors have pointed out that Israel - America's professed ally - is selling weapons and sensitive technology to Red China. They have assisted in the development of a Chinese fighter based on the F-16. What is more alarming is that Israel is usually the first to get America's latest and greatest hi-tech weaponry once it goes into production. The strategic technological lead that the new JSF and F-22 weapons programs gives the U.S. could be egregiously compromised if Israel as a participant leaks sensitive technology to Red China for profit. As an addendum to this book's findings, I would add careful news analysis reveals that the Bush Administration frankly has waffled on Taiwan and has made more concessions to China and even hinted at support for unification with the mainland. This is something that the defend the GOP come hell or high water crowd simply ignores. Moreover, he has likely failed to sufficiently address the economic and security threats China poses. Obviously, the administration has failed to rein in on the openness with China and the loosening of technology transfer controls that his predecessor Clinton initiated. Timperlake and Triplett are to be commended for their research in profiling the national security threat posed by Red China. Though, I think more substantive in-depth research could have been done. (I give it a 3.5/5.0 rating.)

Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953

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Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953
Michael J. Varhola
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12 original maps 24 photos and illustrations 6 x 9

Michael Varhola's The Korean War covers every aspect of this overlooked conflict in an original and fast-paced style. Jammed with facts, myths, statistics and analysis, Varhola's study includes chapters on leading personalities on both sides, all of the major actions including the Inchon Landing and retreat from Chosin, and the roles of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. Includes a Foreword by Col. John E. Jessup, a Korean War veteran and the author of a number of books, including An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996.

Michael Varhola has written and edited several books, including Everyday Life During the Civil War. He has also founded or run several publications, including Living History and The Achiever magazines, and has been published in dozens of other publications.

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Great read.......2006-01-01

I really enjoyed this book. Well researched.

Fully Detailed, But Not Fun to Read.......2004-11-22

I realize I'm not in agreement with all the other reviews here, but I just wanted to throw my $0.02 in. The impression I got from reading the other reviews was that this book would read something like Churchill's "Second World War" series: sort of a narrative or story covering the war. Instead, for the most part, this book is a reference book. It's got tons of information in it, but it's organized into battles within time periods. It's hard to explain. I was looking for something that said we did x because of y which resulted in these battles. Then, we did x' which led to some other battles. Instead it said something like in year x we fought battles a, b, and c. In year y, we fought battles d, e, and f. All the information is there, but the "story" part of the "history" feels lacking.

If you're studying the Korean War, I do agree that this is an excellent book. But, for a more "entertaining" study, I'd try something else (what that would be, I don't know).

Varhola Does It Again.......2002-10-11

Being familiar with some of the author's other works, I tracked this one down as well. As expected, the level of detail and obvious meticulous research were as I expected. Another successful and vivid portrait of a very gripping historical period from an author who clearly knows his history. The wealth of little details interspersed throughout the mandatory historical details make this a true pleasure to read.

Informative, Interesting, and Easy.......2002-08-01

Fire and Ice is one of the best books I've found concerning the Korean War. As a high school student, I found it both interesting and easy to read. It is a straightforward book filled with useful facts, maps, and illustrations. Fire and Ice actually made me want to voluntarily write a report. Not many books can do that.

An Easy Read.......2001-12-17

Fire and Ice is one of those books that just flows. It doesn't seem like you have read the book so quickly. It is a fine introduction to the Korean War. However, it has enough interesting and unusual facts contained that the Korean War expert will still pick up new things.

The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century (Asian Security Studies S.)

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Dennis J. Blasko
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The Chinese Army Today is a unique and comprehensive study of all elements of Chinese military modernization, focusing on its ground forces to a degree not found in any other contemporary works.
In 1999, the military modernization program of the Chinese People's Liberation Army that had been underway for 20 years increased in intensity and achieved a focus not seen in the previous two decades. Based primarily on Chinese sources, this book details the changes implemented since 1999 and puts them in the context of the many traditions that still remain.
Written by a retired professional military officer who has served in China, this book presents the reader with the key developments since 1999. Its discussion on training and doctrine provides a level of detail not found in other works, but is essential to understanding the progress made in China's military modernization and the obstacles yet to be overcome. The author uses first-hand observation of the Chinese military and three decades of military experience to weave many disparate threads from official Chinese statements, documents, and media reports into an integrated whole.
This text defines exactly what forces make up the People's Liberation Army and examines in detail ground force organization and structure, personnel policies, doctrine and training, new equipment entering the force, and missions routinely undertaken in support of society.
This is an essential book for all students and scholars of China and Asia, political science and international relations and of contemporary military affairs and strategic studies.

Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies)

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Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies)
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David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when international attention is increasingly focused on the rise of Chinese military power. Basing his analysis on an unprecedented use of Chinese military publications and interviews with People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers, Shambaugh addresses important questions about Chinese strategic intentions and military capabilities--questions that are of key concern for government policymakers as well as strategic analysts and a concerned public.

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A good overview on China's military.......2007-09-19

Despite some of the mistakes pointed out by past reviewers, I believe the book is still a valuable resource for people not familiar with China's military. What I found particularly useful was Shambaugh's presentation of the Chinese military manufacturing industry and just how weak it is (at least for now). While in no means a comprehensive resource on China's military, its a good book and is worth the read.

Great, but outdated a bit.......2005-03-22

This is a great book and I think it is worth to read it. The writer covers all basic information of PLA and provides his own in-sight analysis. The best part in this book is the section talking about the civil-military relationship between Chinese government or Communist part and PLA. Most of people focus only on the modernization of equipment and training of PLA but this writer gives another perspective of how PLA should further transform itself into a ¡°government¡¯s army¡± rather than a ¡°party¡¯s army¡±.

However, this book is not perfect. The part talking about the equipment of PLA is basically outdated. Most of his sources on PLA seem to be based on pre-2000 information. For example, he never mentions Type-98 or Type-98G tank and its mysterious laser dazzler in his book. He also refuses to recognize China¡¯s ¡°state-of-art¡± missile industry. Therefore, if you are interested in the equipment of PLA, I recommend www.sinodefence.com and www.china-defense.com, which offer ¡°real-time¡± update for what is happening to PLA.

Overall, this is a great book for analyzing the political modernization of PLA but not technical modernization.

If you know anything about the PLA, don't buy this book.......2004-01-23

OK, anyone who knows anything about the PLA will find this to be a very boring read. With the possible acception of the chapter on the CMC, Shambaugh provides little in the way of original insight and the rest of the book simply rehashes material that could be found in tons of better books like You Ji's the Armed Forces of China, or RAND's The PLA as Organization, which frankly are very good investments.

Furthermore, Shambaugh's book is full of mistakes, including on p.1 where he states that the US use of B-1 bombers was critical to the destruction of Iraq during Desert Storm, which would be news to the US as the B-1 wasn't introduced in combat until Afghanistan. There are also examples of ships being misidentified in pictures. Not a good example of serious scholarly work.

The one good thing that I can say about this book is that the footnotes are incredible.

For a scholar as respected as Shambaugh who spent a decade or two on this, Modernizing China's Military was a really disappointing book,

Amazing.......2003-04-13

Professor Shambaugh's introduction to the Chinese military is an easy to read book full of important detail and predictions. Few books out there provide a full overview of the PLA including topics such as civil-military relations, and PLA budget. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Chinese military or East Asian security.

The People's Liberation Army in the Information Age (Conference Proceedings (Rand Corporation).)

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The People's Liberation Army in the Information Age (Conference Proceedings (Rand Corporation).)
James C. Mulvenon
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A July 1998 conference, held in San Diego, California, brought together Chinese military experts to discuss the non-hardware side of the People's Liberation Army's modernization. The result is a comprehensive examination of the critical software side, co

The Armed Forces of China (The Armed Forces of Asia)

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The Armed Forces of China (The Armed Forces of Asia)
You Ji
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At present, perceptions of China's military power owe as much to the Korean war as they do to cool analysis of force structure and offensive capacity. Yet as the emerging economic superpower in Asia, China must play an ever-growing part in the future of that region and the world. The Armed Forces of China presents a straightforward description of China's military resources and the impact of new programs of investment in technology and manpower management.

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Required reading at the Australian Defence Force Academy.......2002-10-20

I'll just let you all know that this book is one of 2 that are required reading at the Australian Defence Force Academy (the Aussies' version of our West Point, Annapolis, and Air Force Academy all rolled up into one). They have one class there that is strictly an analysis of the modern PLA, taught by a professor from the PRC. Just FYI, the second required book is:

China's Security - The New Roles of the Military

And the suggested reading list is:

Lampton, David M. ed., The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).
Swaine, Michael D. Interpreting China's Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2000).
Mulvenon, James C., Andrew N. D. Yang, Seeking Truth From Facts: A Retrospective on Chinese Military Studies in the Post-Mao Era (Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 2001).
Mulvenon, James C. and Richard H. Yang, The People's Liberation Army in the Information Age (Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 1999).
Bickford, Thomas J., Marching into the Abyss: The Changing Role of the People's Liberation Army in Chinese Politics (Ph.D. diss., University of California, 1995).
Segal, Gerald and Richard H. Yang,, (eds.), Chinese Economic Reform: The Impact on Security (London: Routledge, 1996).
Zheng, Shiping, Party vs. State in Post 1949 China: the Institutional Dilemma (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

As you can see, the Aussies take the PRC very seriously.

Useful and Well Researched Review.......2000-05-19

You Ji's book is uniquely helpful to anyone interested in China's military. So many books and articles rely upon speculation and exageration when examining the PLA. However, with clear facts and interesting perspectives from Chinese source material, this book presents a solid analysis of the "modern" PLA and the challenges it faces. The evaluation therefore focuses more on naval and air forces rather than the "three three" structure of the group armies. For an American reader concerned about Pacific strategy, this concentration should not be a problem.

No time is wasted with drawn out and replayed history of the Long March. That can be found elsewhere. You Ji instead tells the reader where China's military wants to go and what obstacles lie ahead. Maximizing new sources and perspectives, he presents a clear analysis.

The Armed Forces of China.......2000-03-03

I found this 1999 book to be a disappointment. I was looking for the latest presentation of the PLA. A much better introduction to the PLA already exists in the June 1996 #146 edition of The China Quarterly. Possibly the paucity in Group Army and basic information is attributable to the fact that an Australian professor edited it and not a person of military note.

The book only touches on the fact (pg 5) that the 25 Chinese Army Groups comprise the basic combat organizations. It implies not surprisingly that these are not fixed organizations but may be tailored as heavy or light depending upon the terrain and their missions. The book calls these "three three" structures which American military has since W.W.II identified as triangular organizations. I would like to have seen three or four organizational schematic examples of the Group Army in these various configurations: light, heavy, and mountain. The highly-touted Rapid Deployment Units as well as the organization of an airborne division are missing. These are supposedly China's crack organizations yet only two pages are devoted to them.

I had hoped the book would have shown an organizational chart (pg. 52) of each generalized possibility or manifestation of the basic Army Group. After all, the Army Group deserves this attention because it is, in fact, the keystone of the Chinese Army. Unfortunately, the book has but one cursory chart with 11 boxes and within one box it merely depicts "24 GAs" and not the 25 mentioned on pg. 5. For some inexplicable reason the book deals with the 27th, 31st, 38th, 39th, 47th and 54th Group Armies but makes no mention of the remaining 19. A chart giving their locations would have been useful together with a schematic illustrating the width and depth of a Group Army's deployment area for both defense and attack.

In short, I found the book to barely be even a summarization of the essays in the above cited copy of The China Quarterly; it presented nothing but very broad and not particularly new brushstrokes, long on budget and space and short on nuts and bolts. It touched upon RMA or Revolution in Military Affairs but that, too, is an old subject that has already been explained ad nauseum elsewhere and in much greater detail.

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China's Military in Transition is the most comprehensive study of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) ever published. Drawing upon a broad range of documentary sources and interviews, many of the world's leading specialists on the Chinese military provide in-depth and expert analyses of China's military modernization programme. This unprecedented volume covers many aspects of the PLA on the eve of the twenty-first century: party-army relations and the role of the PLA in domestic Chinese politics; the changing officer corps; the paramilitary People's Armed Police; troop reorganizations and the demobilization programme; the national security and defence policy decision-making processes; the military-industrial complex and defence industrial conversion; defence finance, budget, and training; weapons procurement; nuclear force modernization; threat perceptions; power projection capabilities; and the military balance in the Taiwan Strait.

Modernizing China's Military: Opportunities and Constraints

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Modernizing China's Military: Opportunities and Constraints
Keith Crane
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