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Chinese Views of Future Warfare (edited by Michael Pillsbury, [1998])

 Pillsbury, Michael (1998). Chinese Views of Future Warfare. National Defense University Press. ISBN 978-1-57906-016-9. Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. (editor)

https://nuke.fas.org/guide/china/doctrine/chinview/chinacont.html

institute for national strategic studies 

Chinese view of future warefare 
revised edition

edited by Michael Pillsbury

Contents

FOREWORD
https://nuke.fas.org/guide/china/doctrine/chinview/chinafor.html

PREFACE
https://nuke.fas.org/guide/china/doctrine/chinview/chinapre.html

 This collection of articles was made possible through a process that began in March 1995, when the President of the Chinese Academy of Military Science hosted a delegation of the Atlantic Council of the United States in Beijing. Over 4 days, our delegation met with more than 50 Chinese strategic experts including Defense Minister General Chi Haotian. This unprecedented visit provided the opportunity to obtain 100 Chinese military books and professional military journals. One journal, China Military Science, published by the Academy of Military Science, is the source of most of the articles in this collection. The remaining articles are from the Liberation Army Daily newspaper and several books published by the Chinese military press. China Military Science features articles by authors with many different approaches to thinking about future warfare. In fact, the journal's editor told me in Beijing that he selects a variety of articles for each issue from many schools of thought. Interestingly, he even publishes several articles in each issue about the continuing relevance of ancient strategic theories. Most of this collection of articles about future warfare by senior Chinese military authors first appeared in 1994 to 1996. They were selected within certain strict Chinese rules that China places on foreign access to military publications. During four trips to the Academy of Military Science in Beijing, 10 Chinese senior military officers were interviewed regarding Chinese views of future warfare and queried about China's most insightful or most authoritative military authors for me to translate for the National Defense University Press. I explained that China's best professional military writing about the future ought to become better known in the United States where, by default, the perception exists that China lacks a vision of the nature of future warfare.

Early on, several Chinese military officers frankly told me that 15 or so of Chinas best military strategists never publish openly. For security reasons, no generals in China can openly publish about current military issues. However, there is greater latitude for Chinese military authors to speculate in China Military Science about the nature of future warfare. Because of Chinese limitations about publication of current military issues, I had no choice but to limit my selection of articles and authors to the subject of future warfare. However, this restriction proved to be serendipitous when I discovered a previously neglected community of Chinese military experts on the future. I was introduced to 30 authors who belong to organizations like the Society for the Study of Future Warfare and the Institute for Grand Strategy and who serve at the National Defense University, the Academy of Military Science, and other parts of the Peoples Liberation Army.

I have arranged the articles by subject:
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  • Part One: Dengs doctrine of future types and causes of warfare
  • Part Two: Chinas future threats or security environment
  • Part Three: Short-term future challenges for possible Local War
  • Part Four: Long-term future warfare and the Revolution in Military Affairs.

Over the past decade, a small group of Western professors and government analysts has published a few books and many articles about Chinese views on defense strategy and military modernization. The sources for these publications are largely U.S. Government translations provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Services Daily Report China and occasional interviews the authors have had in China with PLA officers and other defense experts. The following significant and recent studies provide extensive bibliographies for further reading :

Kenneth W. Allen, Glenn Krumel, Jonathan D. Pollack, Chinas Air Force Enters the 21st Century (Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation, 1995).

Thomas J. Christensen, Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).

Bates Gill and Taeho Kim, Chinas Arms Acquisitions from "broad:" Quest for "Superb and Secret Weapons" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Alastair Iain Johnston, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

C. Dennison Lane, Mark Weisenbloom and Dimon Liu, eds., Chinese Military Modernization (London: Kegan Paul International, 1996).

"Special Issue: Chinas Military in Transition.," ed. David Shambaugh, The China Quarterly (June 1996).

Michael D. Swaine, The Role of the Chinese Military in National Security Policymaking (Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation, 1996).

Robert Sutter with Peter Mitchener, Chinas Rising Military Power and Influence: Issues and Opinions for the U.S. (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, January 1996).


SUMMARIES OF THE ARTICLES
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PART ONE:

THE STRATEGIC THOUGHT OF DENG XIAOPING

DENG XIAOPING'S STRATEGIC THOUGHT
Senior Colonel Peng Guangqian

DENG XIAOPING'S THEORY OF DEFENSE MODERNIZATION
General Zhao Nanqi

DENG XIAOPING'S THEORY OF WAR AND PEACE
Colonel Hong Baoxiu

DENG XIAOPING'S PERSPECTIVE ON NATIONAL INTEREST
Colonel Hong Bin

ADHERE TO ACTIVE DEFENSE AND MODERN PEOPLE'S WAR
Senior Colonel Wang Naiming

DEFENSE POLICY IN THE NEW ERA
Colonel Fang Ning

PART TWO:

FUTURE SECURITY TRENDS U.S.-CHINA MILITARY TIES
General Chi Haotian

THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY SITUATION IN THE 1990S
Major General Yu Qifen

FUTURE MILITARY TRENDS
Gao Heng

FUTURE SECURITY TRENDS IN THE ASIAN-PACIFIC REGION
Senior Colonel Yao Youzhi
Colonel Liu Hongsong

MANAGING CHINA'S FUTURE SECURITY CRISES
Captain Zheng Jian

PART THREE:

MODERNIZING FOR LOCAL WAR DEFENSE MODERNIZATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
General Liu Huaqing

FUTURE LOGISTICS MODERNIZATION
General Fu Quanyou

CHINA'S STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Major General Yang Huan

NUCLEAR SHADOWS ON HIGH-TECH WARFARE
Major General Wu Jianguo

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARMOR
Major General Chen Benchan

REFORMING DEFENSE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INDUSTRY
General Ding Henggao

CHINA'S ARTILLERY DEVELOPMENT
Major General Zi Wuzheng

LOGISTICS SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL WARFARE
Major General Yang Chengyu

REFORM OF CHINA'S DEFENSE INDUSTRY
Shun Zhenhuan

CATEGORIES OF MILITARY SCIENCE
Lieutenant General Zheng Wenhan

DIALECTICS OF DEFEATING THE SUPERIOR WITH THE INFERIOR
Senior Colonel Shen Kuiguan

NOTES ON MILITARY THEORY AND MILITARY STRATEGY
Lieutenant General Li Jijun

CHINESE MODERN LOCAL WAR AND U.S. LIMITED WAR
Senior Colonel Chen Zhou

PART FOUR:

THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS WEAPONS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Chang Mengxiong

21ST-CENTURY NAVAL WARFARE
Naval Captain Shen Zhongchang
Naval Lieutenant Commander Zhang Haiyin
Naval Lieutenant Zhou Xinsheng

THE MILITARY REVOLUTION IN NAVAL WARFARE
Naval Captain Shen Zhongchang
Naval Lieutenant Commander Zhang Haiyin
Naval Lieutenant Zhou Xinsheng

21ST CENTURY AIR WARFARE
Colonel Ming Zengfu

THE MILITARY REVOLUTION IN AIR POWER
Major General Zheng Shenxia
Senior Colonel Zhang Changzhi

21ST-CENTURY LAND OPERATIONS
Colonel Xiao Jingmin
Major Bao Bin

THE CHALLENGE OF INFORMATION WARFARE
Major General Wang Pufeng

INFORMATION WARFARE
Senior Colonel Wang Baocun
Li Fei

FUTURE TRENDS OF MODERN OPERATIONS
Major General Wu Guoqing

FUTURE TRENDS IN STEALTH WEAPONS
Cao Benyi

CHINA'S NATIONAL DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS
General Mi Zhenyu

TACTICAL STUDIES
Yang Wei

THE THIRD MILITARY REVOLUTION
Ch'en Huan

MILITARY CONFLICTS IN THE NEW ERA
Major General Zheng Qinsheng

INFORMATION WAR: A NEW FORM OF PEOPLE'S WAR
Wei Jincheng

NANOTECHNOLOGY WEAPONS ON FUTURE BATTLEFIELDS
Major General Sun Bailin

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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FOREWORD
PREFACE
SUMMARIES OF THE ARTICLES

PART ONE:

THE STRATEGIC THOUGHT OF DENG XIAOPING

DENG XIAOPING'S STRATEGIC THOUGHT
Senior Colonel Peng Guangqian

DENG XIAOPING'S THEORY OF DEFENSE MODERNIZATION
General Zhao Nanqi

DENG XIAOPING'S THEORY OF WAR AND PEACE
Colonel Hong Baoxiu

DENG XIAOPING'S PERSPECTIVE ON NATIONAL INTEREST
Colonel Hong Bin

ADHERE TO ACTIVE DEFENSE AND MODERN PEOPLE'S WAR
Senior Colonel Wang Naiming

DEFENSE POLICY IN THE NEW ERA
Colonel Fang Ning

PART TWO:

FUTURE SECURITY TRENDS U.S.-CHINA MILITARY TIES
General Chi Haotian

THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY SITUATION IN THE 1990S
Major General Yu Qifen

FUTURE MILITARY TRENDS
Gao Heng

FUTURE SECURITY TRENDS IN THE ASIAN-PACIFIC REGION
Senior Colonel Yao Youzhi
Colonel Liu Hongsong

MANAGING CHINA'S FUTURE SECURITY CRISES
Captain Zheng Jian

PART THREE:

MODERNIZING FOR LOCAL WAR DEFENSE MODERNIZATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
General Liu Huaqing

FUTURE LOGISTICS MODERNIZATION
General Fu Quanyou

CHINA'S STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Major General Yang Huan

NUCLEAR SHADOWS ON HIGH-TECH WARFARE
Major General Wu Jianguo

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARMOR
Major General Chen Benchan

REFORMING DEFENSE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INDUSTRY
General Ding Henggao

CHINA'S ARTILLERY DEVELOPMENT
Major General Zi Wuzheng

LOGISTICS SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL WARFARE
Major General Yang Chengyu

REFORM OF CHINA'S DEFENSE INDUSTRY
Shun Zhenhuan

CATEGORIES OF MILITARY SCIENCE
Lieutenant General Zheng Wenhan

DIALECTICS OF DEFEATING THE SUPERIOR WITH THE INFERIOR
Senior Colonel Shen Kuiguan

NOTES ON MILITARY THEORY AND MILITARY STRATEGY
Lieutenant General Li Jijun

CHINESE MODERN LOCAL WAR AND U.S. LIMITED WAR
Senior Colonel Chen Zhou

PART FOUR:

THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS WEAPONS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Chang Mengxiong

21ST-CENTURY NAVAL WARFARE
Naval Captain Shen Zhongchang
Naval Lieutenant Commander Zhang Haiyin
Naval Lieutenant Zhou Xinsheng

THE MILITARY REVOLUTION IN NAVAL WARFARE
Naval Captain Shen Zhongchang
Naval Lieutenant Commander Zhang Haiyin
Naval Lieutenant Zhou Xinsheng

21ST CENTURY AIR WARFARE
Colonel Ming Zengfu

THE MILITARY REVOLUTION IN AIR POWER
Major General Zheng Shenxia
Senior Colonel Zhang Changzhi

21ST-CENTURY LAND OPERATIONS
Colonel Xiao Jingmin
Major Bao Bin

THE CHALLENGE OF INFORMATION WARFARE
Major General Wang Pufeng

INFORMATION WARFARE
Senior Colonel Wang Baocun
Li Fei

FUTURE TRENDS OF MODERN OPERATIONS
Major General Wu Guoqing

FUTURE TRENDS IN STEALTH WEAPONS
Cao Benyi

CHINA'S NATIONAL DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS
General Mi Zhenyu

TACTICAL STUDIES
Yang Wei

THE THIRD MILITARY REVOLUTION
Ch'en Huan

MILITARY CONFLICTS IN THE NEW ERA
Major General Zheng Qinsheng

INFORMATION WAR: A NEW FORM OF PEOPLE'S WAR
Wei Jincheng

NANOTECHNOLOGY WEAPONS ON FUTURE BATTLEFIELDS
Major General Sun Bailin


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