Recent Publications

Category: China Landpower Studies Center

The People of the PLA 2.0
July 23, 2021 — The 27th annual People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Conference—“The People in the PLA” 2.0—revisited a theme first explored at the 2006 conference but understudied since. This volume examines how the structure, education, training, and recruitment of PLA personnel have changed in the last decade and in the Xi Jinping era.Structural changes in the PLA... MORE

The People of the PLA 2.0 by Roy Kamphausen
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/944/

CLSC Director’s Corner: Building a Purposeful Research Agenda
February 29, 2020 — In this second installment of the CLSC Director’s Corner, Joshua Arostegui, the center’s research director and chair of China studies, and I discuss the center’s research agenda. Previously, I outlined the center’s mission and how the research agenda answers large campaign questions across the perspectives of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the United States, and US allies and partners... MORE