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Book Popular Nationalism and War

Download or read book Popular Nationalism and War written by Jiyoung Ko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Does nationalism lead to interstate war? This book challenges the existing presumption that nationalism causes war and systematically investigates how popular nationalism affects a country's decision to launch military aggression. In doing so, the book makes a provocative and novel claim that popular nationalism has both a conflict-inducing and a restraining effect and identifies the conditions under which popular nationalism triggers interstate violence. Specifically, the book asserts that popular nationalism leads to war only when leaders who confront popular nationalism are very confident about their chance of achieving complete victory in conflict or they are politically vulnerable. In the absence of these two conditions, popular nationalism has a restraining effect, pushing leaders toward seeking the status quo and avoiding the use of force. The book first demonstrates the restraining effect of popular nationalism through a survey experiment conducted in China and an in-depth case study on the territorial dispute between China and Japan in the East China Sea. It then offers a comprehensive historical and contemporary analysis of when popular nationalism's restraining effect turns into a conflict-inducing one through case studies on the War of 1812 and the Falklands War. The book provides important insights into whether popular nationalism could put great powers like the United States and China on a collision course, as well as broad policy implications for preventing war driven by popular nationalism"--

Book Military Power of the People s Republic of China 2009

Download or read book Military Power of the People s Republic of China 2009 written by Timothy Keating and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: (1) Understanding China¿s Strategy; (2) China¿s Mil. Strategy and Doctrine; (3) Force Modernization (FM) Goals and Trends; (4) Resources for FM; (5) FM and Security in the Taiwan Strait; (6) Develop. in: China¿s Strategy, in the Security Situation in the Taiwan Strait, in the Size, Location, and Capabilities of PRC Mil. Forces, in PLA Doctrine, in PRC Efforts to Develop, Acquire, or Gain Access to Advanced Technologies That Could Enhance Its Military Capabilities, and in China¿s Asymmetric Capabilities; Challenges to Taiwan¿s Deterrent Forces; (7) China¿s Mil. Diplomacy; Joint Exercises; Peacekeeping Oper.; Humanitarian Assist. and Disaster Relief; Arms Sales; (8) China and Taiwan Forces Data. Maps, charts and tables.

Book TAKING THE FIGHT TO THE ENEMY

Download or read book TAKING THE FIGHT TO THE ENEMY written by Strategic Studies Institute (Ssi) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) was once focused on China's immediate periphery. The PLA Navy had no "blue water" naval capabilities and very limited combat logistics support. The Air Force could not fly long-distance missions overwater or operate effectively in conjunction with the Navy or naval air forces; nor could it coordinate joint, precision strikes with the missiles of the Second Artillery. Land forces, meanwhile, could move effectively within China by rail, and could operate on China's periphery, but were neither capable of nor equipped for long-distance force projection. Dr. Larry M. Wortzel's Letort Paper analyzes a body of literature that provides internal critiques of PLA capabilities. He starts with an analysis of the book Long-Distance Operations, by a strategist from the Academy of Military Science of the Chinese PLA, published in 2007.

Book The Combat Edge

Download or read book The Combat Edge written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China and Iran

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Burman
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2009-08-03
  • ISBN : 0752496611
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book China and Iran written by Edward Burman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China and Iran have featured heavily in the news in recent years. China is both a military and an economic superpower with 20% of the world's population; Iran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons and arming terrorists, and sits on the world's second-largest oil and gas reserves. They are also surprisingly close geographically: Iran is only 700 miles across Afghanistan from China's extreme western border. A 25-year, $100 billion deal to supply China with oil and gas and the large number of Chinese companies operating in Iran shows that the two are moving increasingly close in both political and economic terms. But what does this mean for the rest of the world, and especially for 'the West?' Edward Burman examines how the strikingly similar histories of these two ancient civilisations can inform what the likely consequences for the world of an alliance between them might be.

Book Military Review

Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unrestricted Warfare

Download or read book Unrestricted Warfare written by Liang Qiao and published by NewsMax Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years before the September 11 bombing of the World Trade Center-a Chinese military manual called Unrestricted Warfare touted such an attack-suggesting it would be difficult for the U.S. military to cope with. The events of September ll were not a random act perpetrated by independent agents. The doctrine of total war outlined in Unrestricted Warfare clearly demonstrates that the People's Republic of China is preparing to confront the United States and our allies by conducting "asymmetrical" or multidimensional attack on almost every aspect of our social, economic and political life.

Book Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars

Download or read book Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars written by Bruce A. Elleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and difficult for their enemies to reach by land, giving the sea power and its expeditionary forces the advantage. The technical term for these theatres is ‘peripheral operations.’ The subject of peripheral campaigns in naval expeditionary warfare is central to the British, the US, and the Australian way of war in the past and in the future. All three are reluctant to engage large land forces because of the high human and economic costs. Instead, they rely as much as possible on sea and air power, and the latter is most often in the form of carrier-based aviation. In order to exert pressure on their enemies, they have often opened additional theaters in on-going, regional, and civil wars. This book contains thirteen case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia whose collected case studies examine the most important peripheral operations of the last two centuries. This book will be of much interest to students of naval warfare, military history, strategic studies and security studies.

Book Foreign Policy  Thinking Outside the Box

Download or read book Foreign Policy Thinking Outside the Box written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by renowned scholar Amitai Etzioni aims to provoke reconsiderations of basic assumptions of foreign policy by students, academics and practitioners. With chapters focusing on the Middle East, China and the EU, as well as articles with a more global focus, the book offers thought-provoking and insightful perspectives on international foreign policy which challenge existing academic debate in the field. It will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of foreign policy and international relations.

Book Seapower

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Till
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-06-19
  • ISBN : 1317219287
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Seapower written by Geoffrey Till and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that the sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It has provided the basis for mankind's prosperity and security, and this is even more true in the early twenty-first century, with the emergence of an increasingly globalised world trading system. Navies have always provided a way of policing, and sometimes exploiting, the system. In contemporary conditions, navies, and other forms of maritime power, are having to adapt, in order to exert the maximum power ashore in the company of others and to expand the range of their interests, activities and responsibilities. While these new tasks are developing fast, traditional ones still predominate. Deterrence remains the first duty of today’s navies, backed up by the need to ‘fight and win’ if necessary. How navies and their states balance these two imperatives will tell us a great deal about our future in this increasingly maritime century. This book investigates the consequences of all this for the developing nature, composition and functions of all the world's significant navies, and provides a guide for anyone interested in the changing and crucial role of seapower in the twenty-first century. Seapower is essential reading for all students of naval power, maritime security and naval history, and highly recommended for students of strategic studies, international security and international relations.

Book The Eurasian Way of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : David A. Graff
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-03-10
  • ISBN : 1317237080
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book The Eurasian Way of War written by David A. Graff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of empire. Whilst not neglecting the many differences between the Chinese and Byzantines, this book highlights the striking similarities in their organizational structures, tactical deployments and above all their extremely cautious approach to warfare. It shows that, contrary to the conventional wisdom positing a straightforward Western way of war and an "Oriental" approach characterized by evasion and trickery, the specifics of Byzantine military practice in the seventh century differed very little from what was known in Tang China. It argues that these similarities cannot be explained by diffusion or shared cultural influences, which were limited, but instead by the need to deal with common problems and confront common enemies, in particular the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppes. Overall, this book provides compelling evidence that pragmatic needs may have more influence than deep cultural imperatives in determining a society’s "way of war."

Book China at War

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1945
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book China at War written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes selections from the daily bulletins of the China Information Committee.

Book Selections from People s Republic of China Magazines

Download or read book Selections from People s Republic of China Magazines written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Aerospace Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lyle J Goldstein
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 2012-04-30
  • ISBN : 1612511546
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Chinese Aerospace Power written by Lyle J Goldstein and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's aircraft carrier program is making major waves well before the first ship has been completed. Undoubtedly, this development heralds a new era in Chinese national security policy. While the present volume presents substantial new insight on that particular question, its focus is decidedly broader in scope. Chinese Aerospace Power offers a comprehensive survey of Chinese aerospace developments, with a focus on areas of potential strategic significance previously unexplored in Western scholarship. The book also links these developments to the vast maritime battlespace of the Asia-Pacific region and highlights the consequent implications for the U.S. military, particularly the U.S. Navy.

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1350 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The London and China Telegraph

Download or read book The London and China Telegraph written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: