Introduction to the PLA's Administrative and Operational Structure -- The Central Military Commission and Military Policy in China -- The Pinnacle of the Pyramid: The Central Military Commission -- The General Staff Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army: Organization, Roles, & Missions -- The General Political Department and the Evolution of the Political Commissar System -- The People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Logistics Department (GLD): Toward Joint Logistics Support -- The General Armament Department -- PLA Ground Forces: Moving Toward a Smaller, More Rapidly Deployable, Modern Combined Arms Force -- PLA Air Force Organization -- The Organization of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) -- The Chinese Second Artillery Corps: Transition to Credible Deterrence -- The Institutional Lessons of Disaster: Reorganizing the People's Armed Police After Tiananmen
Summary
Presents the results of a conference that brought together many of the nation's top experts to evaluate issues of structure and process in the People's Liberation Army
Notes
"Product of a conference, jointly sponsored by the Rand Center for Asia-Pacific Policy (CAPP) and the Taiwan-based Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies (CAPS) ... held at Airlie House in Warrenton, Virginia from 3-6 August 2000"--Page iii
"Rand National Security Research Division."
"CF-182-NSRD"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
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