TY - BOOK AU - Wuthnow,Joel ED - National Defense University Press TI - The PLA beyond borders: Chinese military operations in regional and global context SN - 9780996824972 PY - 2021/// CY - Washington, DC PB - NDU Press KW - military balance KW - national security KW - military strategy KW - China KW - defence policy KW - armed forces KW - geopolitics N1 - Print format not distributed to depository libraries; SIP2201; Drawn from a 2019 conference jointly organized by the National Defense University, RAND, and Taiwan’s Council on Advanced Policy Studies, The PLA Beyond Borders surveys the dimensions of Chinese operations within the Indo-Pacific region and globally.; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction. The PLA beyond borders / Joel Wuthnow -- Part I. Enabling operations: capabilities, infrastructure, and organizations. The PLA's expeditionary force: current capabilities and future trends / Kristen Gunness -- Crossing the strait: recent trends in PLA 'strategic delivery' capabilities / Chung Chieh and Andrew N.D. Yang -- China's overseas base, places, and far seas logistics / Isaac B. Kardon -- PLA command and control of overseas operations / Phillip C. Saunders -- China's air and maritime ISR in coastal defense and near seas operations / Shinji Yamaguchi -- The PLA Strategic Support Force: a "joint" force for information operations / John Chen, Joe McReynolds, and Kieran Green -- Part II. Into action: PLA operational concepts and practice. Reassessing China's use of military force / Andrew Scobell -- Bomber strike packages with Chinese characteristics / Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga -- PLA operational lessons from UN peacekeeping / Joel Wuthnow -- China's security assistance in global competition: the case of Africa / Jonah Victor -- A new type of cross-border attack: the PLA's cyber force / Ying-Yu Lin -- Space and Chinese national security: China's continuing great leap upward / Dean Cheng UR - https://permanent.fdlp.gov/gpo157585/990-059-NDU-PLA_Beyond_Borders_sp_jm14.pdf ER -