TY - BOOK AU - Kamphausen,Roy AU - Lai,David AU - Scobell,Andrew AU - Blair,Dennis C. AU - Gill,Bates AU - Huang,Chin-hao ED - US Army War College. ED - National Bureau of Asian Research (U.S.) ED - Texas A & M University. TI - Beyond the strait: PLA missions other than Taiwan SN - 1584873825 PY - 2009///?] CY - Carlisle, PA PB - Strategic Studies Institute KW - UN KW - peacekeeping operations KW - conference KW - military strategy KW - military doctrines KW - China KW - regional security KW - East Asia KW - South Asia KW - Central Asia KW - Taiwan KW - Korean peninsula KW - armed forces KW - restructuring KW - force structure KW - national security KW - civil-military relations KW - civic action N1 - "The 2008 PLA Conference, conducted by the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, and the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, brought together more than 70 leading experts at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania..."--P. [4] of cover N2 - China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has undergone a staggering transformation, to become a more mobile and high-tech military force with increased number and variety of missions at home and abroad, in addition to its traditional focus on contingencies in the Taiwan Strait. Increased missions have included disaster and humanitarian relief, United Nations peacekeeping operations, counterterrorism, cyber security and anti-piracy. This volume explores the direction the PLA will take in pursuing its new missions, and how those missions affect the evolution of the PLA's objectives and capabilities, whether new PLA doctrines will emerge, and how they will affect the security of the Asia Pacific and beyond UR - http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=910 ER -