Reconceptualizing the PLA Navy in post - Mao China : functions, warfare, arms, and organization

• Main Author: Li, Nan
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91129; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4430
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines the major changes regarding the Chinese Navy (PLAN, or the People’s Liberation Army Navy) between the pre-1985 period and the post-1985 period. It shows that major conceptual changes have taken place to the PLAN’s functions, warfare, arms, and organization si...