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Lulu Press Shaping Chinas Security Environment by Andrew Scobell Larry M. Wortzel Strategic Studies Institute
This is the eighth volume on the Peoples Liberation Army PLA to be published by the Strategic Studies Institute. It is the product of a conference held at Carlisle Barracks Pennsylvania from September 23-25 2005 to examine the PLA and the global security environment in which it operates. This gathering was the 18th in a series of annual conferences on Chinas PLA. I have been privileged to be involved with and/or attend most of these gatherings over the years. At the 2005 conference I was honored to deliver the keynote address in which I offered some of my insights and observations about China derived from a lifetime of living in or working on the Middle Kingdom. More than 50 experts on China participating in this conference provided critical comments and guidance on the initial drafts of the chapters included in this volume.show more