The dragon awakes
Subtitle: China's military modernization trends and implications
By: Lawrence E. Grinter, editor
Contributors: USAF Counterproliferation Center
Publisher: USAF Counterproliferation Center, Air University
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; Arms transfers; Armed Forces; Operational readiness; Defenses; Military policy
Other titles: China's military modernization trends and implications
Description: "Four essays ... analyze broad trends in Chinese military modernization.  While they treat strategic capabilities ... the essays analyze considerably more.  They look at the whole pattern of Chinese military modernization-- strategy, doctrine, information warfare, ground, naval and air forces. The essays come to ... much the same conclusion: that while the PLA ... is acquiring "pockets" of modern capabilities through a variety of legal and illegal endeavors, these selective acquisitions do not offset the overall obsolescence of most of China's armed forces."
Notes: "October 1999."

Includes bibliographical references.