Vīravinoda : Mevāṛa kā itihāsa : Mahārāṇāoṃ kā ādi se lekara San 1884 taka kā vistr̥ta vr̥ttānta, ānushaṅgika sāmagrī sahita /
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| Author / Creator: | Śyāmaladāsa. |
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| Imprint: | Dillī : Motīlāla Banārasīdāsa, 1986. |
| Description: | 2 v. in 4 ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | Hindi Persian Rajasthani Sanskrit |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/854824 |
| Summary: | A decade ago, many scholars and policy analysts who followed China dismissed the People's Liberation Army (PLA) as an antiquated force that was essentially infantry, fighting with decades-old weapons, poor communications, and World War II era doctrine. China's nuclear forces were also technologically outmoded and fixed to silo or tunnel launch sites. Very little information was available about China's "Second Artillery Corps," as China calls its strategic rocket forces. The United States knew that the PLA maintained a separate corps of rocket troops, but its doctrine and command and control structures remained shrouded in secrecy. Chinese diplomats, political leaders, and security thinkers regularly announced that China would adhere to a "no first use" policy, but very little published military information was available about how China intended to use its missile forces in crisis or war. Dr. Larry M. Wortzel's monograph sheds new light on the operations, training, and doctrine of the Second Artillery Corps. The PLA is adding modernized mobile missile forces to the older silo-based strategic forces. At the same time, China is experimenting with multiple reentry vehicles, maneuverable reentry vehicles, and other penetration aids or countermeasures on its warheads as measures to respond to potential missile defenses. A nation-wide network of redundant command and control systems is now deployed around China to ensure retaliatory capabilities are available and responsive to the orders of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission. The PLA has generated new doctrine on how to integrate missile forces into its military campaigns at the operational level of war while still maintaining the strategic nuclear deterrent. However, there are some worrisome aspects to this modernization. China has mixed nuclear, nuclearcapable, and conventionally armed missiles into its theater (or campaign)-level forces. It has worked to perfect ballistic missiles that can attack moving targets at sea. Moreover, it has integrated submarine launched ballistic missiles into its nuclear doctrine. Among civilian strategists and military officers, a debate has developed about the viability of China's "no-first-use" pledges in the age of precision weapons and stealth attack. Additionally, the PLA is now publishing more military theoretical studies and doctrine on these changes and how to employ them, providing new information on China's capabilities, organization, and threat perceptions. We are pleased to present this monograph, which provides new insights into why China's leaders and military thinkers see the United States as a major potential threat to the PLA and China's interests. The monograph also discusses the relationships between conventional and nuclear ballistic units in war fighting doctrine. These are critical matters for the Army and our nation. |
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| Item Description: | In Hindi; passages in Persian, Rajasthani, and Sanskrit. Reprint. Originally published: Udayapura : Rājayantrālaya, 1886. |
| Physical Description: | 2 v. in 4 ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 8120801911 |