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Japan's Master Plan to Defeat China in a War How Japan can defeat China without catching up. In recent years, significant attention has been paid to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). China’s defense budget, which has increased ten fold in the last twenty five years, has funded the construction of a modern, ocean-going navy. This includes the recently fielded aircraft carrier, Liaoning, as well as fleets of destroyers, frigates, corvettes, replenishment ships, and amphibious assault ships. The PLAN is indeed an impressive force, but local geography will create challenges during wa...

Did the Chinese overstate the implications of the Gulf War? Yes and no. Here’s What You Need to Remember: In 1991, Chinese military officers watched as the United States dismantled the Iraqi Army, a force with more battle experience and somewhat greater technical sophistication than the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The Americans won with casualties that were trivial by historical standards. This led to some soul searching. The PLA hadn’t quite been on autopilot in the 1980s, but the pace of reform in the military sector had not matched that of social and economic life in China....

Does Taiwan Have a Master Plan for War With a China? Beijing could get more than it bargained for. Here's What You Need to Know: Taiwan must substantially increase the costs of invasion by promising unacceptable amounts of pain to the PLA. A consensus seems to have developed among a large number of defense analysts in recent years arguing that despite the balance of power having shifted in China’s favor, Beijing has no intention to use its military to  invade Taiwan and thus resolve the Taiwan “question” once and for all. Doing so would be too costly, some argue, while others contend...

The victory forced Beijing to reexamine its own military and to scramble to make reforms. Key point: China had assumed America would have at least a somewhat difficult time fighting Iraq, especially in the decades after Vietnam. They were sorely mistaken. In 1991, Chinese military officers watched as the United States dismantled the Iraqi Army, a force with more battle experience and somewhat greater technical sophistication than the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The Americans won with casualties that were trivial by historical standards. This led to some soul searching. The PLA hadn...