A Low-Visibility Force Multiplier: Assessing China’s Cruise Missile Ambitions

Authors

Dennis M. Gormley
Andrew S. Erickson
Jingdong Yuan

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Description

China’s military modernization is focused on building modern ground, naval, air, and missile forces capable of fighting and winning local wars under informationized conditions. The principal planning scenario has been a military campaign against Taiwan, which would require the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to deter or defeat U.S. intervention. The PLA has sought to acquire asymmetric “assassin’s mace” technologies and systems to overcome a superior adversary and couple them to the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems necessary for swift and precise execution of short-duration, high-intensity wars.

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Gormley, Dennis M.; Erickson, Andrew S.; and Yuan, Jingdong, "A Low-Visibility Force Multiplier: Assessing China’s Cruise Missile Ambitions" (2014). Books and Book Chapters. 20.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/books-and-book-chapters/20