RYAN Mark A ed.) <br/><br/>
Chinese warfighting:  the PLA experience since 1949 

 - Armonk, NY. USA:  ME Sharpe,  2003 
 - 336p. 
<br/><br/> Study of modern China's military campaigns and the actual warfighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949.  Also provides a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine and focuses on major combat episodes since the civil war with the Nationalists in the 1930s and 1940s to the last significant combat episode in Vietnam in 1979, and it also includes navy and air operations through 1999.  Other topics discussed are military planning, command, and control; fighting and politics; combat tactics and performance; technological catch-up and doctrinal flexibility; the role of Mao Zedong; scale and typologies of fighting; and deterrence. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0765610884 (pbk.):  32.95 USD