China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach

This volume examines the transformation of China's military over the past 15 years while projecting out to the next decade how China may act politically and militarily to defend its interests out into the next decade. China’s dramatic military buildup over the last several decades is perhaps the single most important challenge in strategic affairs today, not only for China’s neighbors from Russia and Japan and the Koreas and Taiwan to India and Central Asia, but also for world strategic affairs in places seemingly remote from China, from the Middle East and Europe to Africa and Latin America.