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The Goal: Overhauling China’s Military Strategy

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People’s War” is dead, and “People’s War under Modern Conditions” is an essentially misleading and meaningless appellation for China’s struggle toward very new strategic directions. Yet the emphasis is on the word “struggle.” China’s leadership is burning a Maoist bridge behind it without a secure replacement.

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Karmel, S.M. (2000). The Goal: Overhauling China’s Military Strategy. In: China and the People’s Liberation Army. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62319-8_2

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