| dc.description.abstract | The world order had been changed dramatically after World War II.
The world lead by United States and Soviet Union were much polarized
than anytime in human history. From China’s perspectives, it needed to be
extra agile in order to survive between the two major powers. Since Mao’s
administration, “People’s War” had been the foundation of military trategy
for the People’s Liberation Army, 〈PLA〉. It was a tool to encourage people
rising and supporting the PLA fought with nationalist government. In the
long period of practice of the strategy, the Chinese Communist party
developed a theory of “Active Defense.” It is said that “ I will not fight
others unless they fight me first; if so, I will fight back.” The theory states
the principle of being strategic defensive and passive military reactions.
However, since its economic reform in 1978, the PRC had learned the
lessons by watching Vietnam War, two Gulf Wars, and War with Terrorists
in Afghanistan, the PLA realized that it also has to rewrite its military
doctrines and modernize military assets in order to adapt modern war
scenario which involves with Modern War under High Technology Support,
Limited War under Information Support, Therefore, in 1991, the PLA
started studying western military theories and transform its much larger
Army military to joint concept military. Blue sea defensive Navy and both
offensive and defensive capable Air Force are much invested ever since. We
can find the trace of the PLA’s development from land, coast, blue sea, air,
and step by step toward space by carefully comparing the PLA’s national
military parades in 1999, 2009, and 2015. Not only just stunned by the
modernized military assets in the parades, this study could provide the PLA
is heading to the direction that becoming a modernized military forces and
capable to protect the PRC’s national interests of sovereignty and strategic
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