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Military Power of China - 2008 Edition Delivered

March 3rd, 2008 3 Comments

Announced and made available this afternoon.  You can read/download it from the Virtual Library here.  Some highlights:

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is pursuing comprehensive transformation from a mass army designed for protracted wars of attrition on its territory to one capable of fighting and winning shortduration,
high intensity conflicts along its periphery against high-tech adversaries – [...]

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What 1.8% of GDP Buys These Days…

March 3rd, 2008 No Comments

 
Very little in the way of defense forces…
 
1.8% of GDP allocated to defense is a hard sum to work with these days – harder still if you decide to freeze it in place and not adjust annually for inflation. In such a coffin corner, what is one left with? If you are France and deep [...]

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