Machine derived contents note: 1. Better Expert than Red: The PLA in the 'New Era' 4 -- 1. The Fourth Modernisation: National Defence 4 -- 2. Lessons from Vietnam: From 'People's War' to -- 'Active Defence' 5 -- 3, Lessons from the Gulf War: 'Limited War Under -- Iigh Technology Conditions' 9 -- III American Analysis and Understanding of Chinese -- Warfare Paradigms: A Study in Cultural Gaps 14 -- I. The 21st Centur: 'Asian Century' or 'New American -- Century'? 14 -- 2. The Fundamental Cultural Gaps 15 -- 3. Chinese Cultural Traditions 16 -- 4. American Cultural Traditions 21 -- 5 American Analysis of the PLA: Cultural Gaps in Practice 24 -- IV. Wararae in the New Millennium: Cultural Paradigms 27 -- t1. Unrestricted Warfare: A New Paradigm of Warfare 27 -- 2 Unreslricted Warfare: A Great Leap Backwards 32 -- 3. Joint Vision 2020 and Asymmetric Warfare: Fighting -- the Last War 36 -- 4. 2020 Vision?: An American Maginot Line 37 -- 5. Transcending the Cultural Gaps - the Real -- Revolutionn Military Affairs 43