Military strategy

KEEPING UP WITH CHINA’S EVOLVING MILITARY STRATEGY

For over two decades, the People’s Republic of China has been engaged in a grand project to transform its military into a modernized fighting force capable of defeating major foreign powers. After the first Gulf War saw the United States use precision-guided munitions and networked technologies to decisively defeat Iraq’s aging, mechanized forces, Chinese military thinkers concluded that a similar fate awaited the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in combat unless drastic changes were made. From that point onward, readying the PLA to fight in modern warfare has been firmly enshrined as one of China’s highest policy priorities.

Military strategy

New Military Strategy Shows A Dangerous World – But Not How To Deal With It

The Pentagon is painfully aware the world is changing. What the military’s clearly still struggling with is how we should change to cope.

That’s the less-than-reassuring implication of the new National Military Strategy, released a week ago by the outgoing chairman of the joint chiefs, Gen. Martin Dempsey. (I discuss the strategy and its shortcomings with Richard French of Regional News Network in the video above). While expectations tend to be low for such bureaucratic products, the new strategy make some important insights into new threats — only to prescribe familiar solutions.

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Here’s the Biggest Difference Between US and Chinese Military Policy

On July 1, the U.S. published its new national military strategy, just a few months after China released its own. Both papers are intended for broad public consumption; neither addresses specifics about weapons and strategy. Taken together, they paint an interesting contrasting portrait of the military thinking guiding the two superpowers.

Military strategy

Chinese diplomat introduces white paper on China's military strategy to Cambodian military lecturers, cadets

 Military attache of the Chinese Embassy to Cambodia Li Ningya on Friday delivered a lecture on the white paper about China's military strategy to more than 500 Cambodian military lecturers and cadets at the National Defense University here.He said China issued the white paper on military strategy on May 26, 2015, which stressed active defense and pledged closer international security cooperation.

The nearly 9,000-word white paper, which outlined a strategy unifying strategic defense and operational and tactical offense, also underscored "the principles of defense, self-defense and post- emptive strikes."