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What I Learned From the PLA’s Latest Strategy Textbook
May 25, 2021 08:32 AM
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Image: The cover of the 2020 revision of the Science of Military Strategy, released in August 2020 (Source: Author’s records).
Introduction
Science of Military Strategy (战略学,
zhanlüe xue) (SMS), a core textbook for senior PLA officers on how wars should be planned and conducted at the strategic level. This article compares the 2020 version of this book with its last revision, in 2017, and finds that the former contains new details on wartime political work, “intelligentization” concepts, China’s military strategic guidelines, major war operations, joint logistics and the People’s Armed Police. It should be a go-to reference for those seeking to understand Chinese military thinking as it is currently explained to PLA officers themselves.
National Defense University’s Joel Wuthnow will be discussion guest as seven-week event continues
The threat of an invasion by China looms over Taiwan. As the United Kingdom’s news magazine The Guardian reported last week, Taiwan faces an irreconcilable conundrum. Its government wants to continue operating independently without threat of a Chinese invasion. But China and its Communist party have long considered Taiwan part of China even depicting as such on a 2021 map and may use force to crush that independence.
The 2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit’s session Wednesday will focus on the simmering China-Taiwan relationship. The National Defense University’s Joel Wuthnow will join moderator David Ulbrich, program director and associate professor in Norwich University’s Master of Arts in History and in Military History programs, in a discussion marking the summit’s third week.