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China's Nuclear Forces : Operations, Training, Doctrine, Command, Control, and Campaign Planning by Larry M Wortzel; Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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A decade ago, many scholars and policy analysts who followed China dismissed the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) as an antiquated force that was essentially infantry, fighting with decades-old weapons, poor communications, and World War II era doctrine. Chinas nuclear forces were also technologically outmoded and fixed to silo or tunnel launch sites. Very little information was available about Chinas Second Artillery Corps, as China calls its strategic rocket forces. The United States knew that the PLA maintained a separate corps of rocket troops, but its doctrine and command and control structures remained shrouded in secrecy. Chinese diplomats, political leaders, and security thinkers regularly announced that China would adhere to a no first use policy, but very little published military information was available about how China intended to use its missile forces in crisis or war.

Author

Larry M Wortzel; Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute

Publisher

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College Commandant (AWCC-DSI/Publications)

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781584872924

Subjects

Military, Government_military