Table of Contents

List of Maps, 1. Introduction: Patterns of PL A Warfighting, 2. Change and Continuity in Chinese Military Doctrine: 1949-1999, 3. The Beiping-Tianjin Campaign of 1948-1949: The Strategic and Operational Thinking of the People’s Liberation Army, 4. The Last Campaign to Unify China: The CCP’s Unrealized Plan to Liberate Taiwan, 1949-1950, 5. Command, Control, and the PLA’s Offensive Campaigns in Korea, 1950-1951, 6. What China Learned from Its “Forgotten War” in Korea, 7. PLA Attacks and Amphibious Operations During the Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958, 8. PLA Operational Principles and Limited War: The Sino-Indian War of 1962, 9. The Sino-Soviet Border Conflicts of 1969: New Evidence Three Decades Later, 10. Vietnamese Perceptions of the 1979 War with China, 11. The PLA Navy at War, 1949-1999: From Coastal Defense to Distant Operations, 12. Air Combat for the People’s Republic: The People’s Liberation Army Air Force in Action, 1949-1969, Bibliography, The Editors and Contributors, Index and Glossary

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Mark A. Ryan, David M. Finkelstein, Michael A. McDevitt, CNA Corporation