China’s Changing Approach to Military Strategy: The Science of Military Strategy from 2001 to 2013 [Book chapter draft]
The 2013 publication of the Science of Military Strategy is an essential source for understanding how China's thinking about military strategy is changing. To examine how China's approach to military strategy is changing, this chapter compares the 2013 edition of the Science of Military...
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| description | The 2013 publication of the Science of Military Strategy is an essential source for understanding how China's thinking about military strategy is changing. To examine how China's approach to military strategy is changing, this chapter compares the 2013 edition of the Science of Military Strategy with the 2001 edition. The chapter reaches two conclusions. First, the 2013 edition represents an evolution of China's approach to thinking about military strategy. It does not contain a description of a revolutionary new approach to China's military strategy. Instead, it examines changes in China's security environment through traditional concepts that have underpinned the PLA approach to strategy, such as "active defense," by modifying or adjusting these ideas based on new circumstances. Second, a main theme throughout the text is how new and expanding interests overseas, along with worldwide advances in military technology and the posture of potential adversaries, are expanding the battle space in which the PLA will need to operate and the importance of greater strategic depth. Thus, much of the book can be interpreted as examining how the PLA should respond to these new conditions based on its traditional approach to strategy. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1093182022-09-30T18:58:35Z China’s Changing Approach to Military Strategy: The Science of Military Strategy from 2001 to 2013 [Book chapter draft] Fravel, Maris Taylor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Security Studies Program Fravel, Maris Taylor The 2013 publication of the Science of Military Strategy is an essential source for understanding how China's thinking about military strategy is changing. To examine how China's approach to military strategy is changing, this chapter compares the 2013 edition of the Science of Military Strategy with the 2001 edition. The chapter reaches two conclusions. First, the 2013 edition represents an evolution of China's approach to thinking about military strategy. It does not contain a description of a revolutionary new approach to China's military strategy. Instead, it examines changes in China's security environment through traditional concepts that have underpinned the PLA approach to strategy, such as "active defense," by modifying or adjusting these ideas based on new circumstances. Second, a main theme throughout the text is how new and expanding interests overseas, along with worldwide advances in military technology and the posture of potential adversaries, are expanding the battle space in which the PLA will need to operate and the importance of greater strategic depth. Thus, much of the book can be interpreted as examining how the PLA should respond to these new conditions based on its traditional approach to strategy. 2017-05-24T19:04:45Z 2017-05-24T19:04:45Z 2016 2016-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem Research Paper No. 2016-15 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109318 Fravel, M. Taylor. (April 2016) "China’s Changing Approach to Military Strategy: The Science of Military Strategy from 2001 and 2013." In Joe McReynolds (Ed.), The Evolution of China’s Military Strategy. Washington, DC: Jamestown Foundation, 2016. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5831-8949 en_US https://ssp.mit.edu/publications/2016/chinas-changing-approach-to-military-strategy Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf SSRN |
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| title | China’s Changing Approach to Military Strategy: The Science of Military Strategy from 2001 to 2013 [Book chapter draft] |
| title_full | China’s Changing Approach to Military Strategy: The Science of Military Strategy from 2001 to 2013 [Book chapter draft] |
| title_fullStr | China’s Changing Approach to Military Strategy: The Science of Military Strategy from 2001 to 2013 [Book chapter draft] |
| title_full_unstemmed | China’s Changing Approach to Military Strategy: The Science of Military Strategy from 2001 to 2013 [Book chapter draft] |
| title_short | China’s Changing Approach to Military Strategy: The Science of Military Strategy from 2001 to 2013 [Book chapter draft] |
| title_sort | china s changing approach to military strategy the science of military strategy from 2001 to 2013 book chapter draft |
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