China’s military build-up in the early twenty-first century : from arms procurement to war-fighting capability

• Main Author: Yoram Evron
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90553; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6511
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since the late 1990s, China’s military arsenal has been dramatically modernised. However, the actual military value of the newly developed systems has yet to be clarified. This study attempts to do so, on the basic assumption that technological military progress per se is not sufficient to inc...