The Pla and the Kosovo Conflict

Abstract

The U.S. armed forces are not the only military that has sought to discern the lessons of the Kosovo campaign in the spring of 1999. The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has also analyzed the conflict and drawn its own conclusions. In fact, as Dr. June Teufel Dreyer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami in Florida, observes, rather than reach a single set of conclusions, different groups within the Chinese military drew different judgments. Dr. Dreyer argues that these differences of opinion reflect the considerable diversity of thinking about defense modernization and future war that exists within the PLA today. The analysis that follows therefore provides an opportunity for readers to learn about the different strands in Chinese strategic thinking as that country enters the 21st century.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA382839

Entities

People

  • June T. Dreyer

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Combat Areas
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Governments
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • Political Systems
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.