Title China's nuclear forces : operations, training, doctrine, command, control, and campaign planning / Larry M. Wortzel

Published Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2007]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 42 pages) Contents Introduction -- The United States as the greatest potential threat -- Guided missiles in conventional war campaigns -- Attacking deployed carrier battle groups -- Nuclear counterattack campaigns -- Survive a nuclear attack: then retaliate -- Classes of readiness for the Second Artillery -- Support for "guaranteed survivability and strike" -- Nuclear command and control -- Discussions about no first use -- Conclusions Summary This monograph documents new thinking in China on how and when to use nuclear weapons. China's nuclear forces are mainly retaliatory in nature, but there is a debate about using preemptive force among China's strategic thinkers Notes Title from title screen (viewed December 11, 2007) "May 2007." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-42) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- China Nuclear arms control. Military policy. Nuclear arms control. Nuclear weapons -- Government policy. SUBJECT China -- Military policy Subject China. China -- military strategy -- nuclear strategy -- nuclear weapons -- nuclear arms control. Form Electronic book Author Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute. ISBN 1584872926 9781584872924

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