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What changes in China’s modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategyActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China’s military strategy from the mid-twentieth cen...
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What changes in China’s modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategy

Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China’s military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel illuminates the nation’s past and present military goals, and offers a rich set of cases for deepening the study of how and why states alter their defense policies.

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Price: $29.95
Pages: 396
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Publication Date: 08 December 2020
ISBN: 9780691210339
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Political science and theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, HISTORY / Asia / China, International relations, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Military history, Military and defence strategy
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M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Strong Borders, Secure Nation (Princeton). Twitter @fravel