The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China

The People’s Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China brings together leading experts from the United States and Taiwan to examine how the PLA prepares for a range of domestic border and maritime contingencies. The book includes chapters on how the PLA domestic security forces and the civilian government conduct contingency planning and how military commanders can draw upon national level military assets and mobilize civilian resources to execute their plans. Substantive chapters assess PLA planning for potential domestic contingencies such as suppressing internal unrest border contingencies involving India Myanmar North Korea Afghanistan and Central Asia and maritime contingencies in both the near and the far seas. Authors also examine PLA preparations and performance in disaster relief counterpiracy and noncombatant evacuation operations.