TWQ: China’s Overstretched Military Strategy - Fall 2012

Journal by Andrew Scobell and Andrew J. Nathan

Published October 1, 2012

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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is called upon to perform a wide range of missions including maintaining domestic stability, defending territorial integrity, deterring nuclear attack, and soon projecting power. The overall effect is mission overload and military overstretch.

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China , Defense and Security , Geopolitics and International Security , and Defense Strategy and Capabilities

Andrew Scobell and Andrew J. Nathan

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