China’s military potential – evolution, trends and challenges
China’s military potential – evolution, trends and challenges

Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to determine how China’s armed forces tryto create a favorable strategic posture with more emphasison the employment of military forces and means, and providea solid security guarantee for the country’s peaceful development, in response to the new requirement of safeguarding national security and development interests. Potential, evolution,and trends of basic Services: Army; Air Force; Navy and the mostcrucial aspects of nuclear potential has been presented. Problems related to the cyber space domain, as the new era of information warfare are discussed by the view of building uniquecapabilities. PRC openly identifying information assets as a keyto winning contemporary wars. Particularly, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), aiming at building modern forces and winningan informationalized war, deepens its reform, dedicates itselfto innovation, improves its quality and actively pushes forwardthe revolution in military affairs. Chinese strategy, operational art and doctrine reflect the desire and need for a holistic approach to national security, utilizingthe entirety of national resources. Multidimensional coordination, a PLA principle of warfare, illustrates this holistic approachby stressing that military and nonmilitary entities should workin concert towards common objectives. Multidimensional coordination occurs at and between all levels of war, includes strategicresources and instruments of power and efforts to shape the environment. The paper underlines also shift from joint operationsto integrated joint operations. Chinese military experts perceiveit as the basic approach in order to meet the requirements of confrontation between war systems in modern warfare. Integratedjoint operations are designed to bring the operational strengthsof different Services and arms into full play, combine offensiveoperations with defensive ones, and give priority to the flexibleapplication of strategies and tactics.

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