Assessing the People's Liberation Army in the Hu Jintao Era Paperback - 2015

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
KENNETH ALLEN is a Senior China Analyst with Defense Group Inc. (DGI), where he focuses on China's military organizational structure, personnel, education, training, and foreign relations with particular emphasis on the PLA Air Force. During 21 years in the U.S. Air Force (1971-92), he served as an enlisted Chinese and Russian linguist and intelligence officer with tours in Taiwan; Berlin, Germany; Japan; Pacific Command Air Force Headquarters, China; and Washington, DC. From 1987-89, he served as an Assistant Air Attach in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. He was inducted into the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Defense Attach Hall of Fame in 1997. Mr. Allen holds B.A.s from the University of California at Davis and the University of Maryland and an M.A. in international relations from Boston University.WANDA AYUSO is an analyst in the Asia Pacific Analysis division at the DIA. Wanda joined DIA as a DoD civilian in 2006. Her primary expertise is on Chinese military operations, specifically strategic missiles and joint training. Prior to joining DIA, she was a contractor for CACI working China military issues and also served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve. She has been mobilized in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM. Ms. Ayuso is a graduate of the Joint and Combined Warfighting School and Air Command Staff College. She holds a B.A. in business management from the University of Puerto Rico and a M.S. in strategic intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College. DENNIS J. BLASKO, a U.S. Army (Retired) Lieutenant Colonel, served 23 years as a Military Intelligence Officer and Foreign Area Officer specializing in China. He was an army attach in Beijing from 1992-95 and in Hong Kong from 1995-96. He also served in infantry units in Germany, Italy, and Korea and in Washington at the DIA; Headquarters, Department of the Army (Office of Special Operations); and the National Defense University War Gaming and Simulation Center. Mr. Blasko has written numerous articles and chapters on the Chinese military and defense industries and is the author of the book, The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century, 2nd Ed. (Routledge, 2012). Mr. Blasko is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and the NavalPostgraduate School.
MICHAEL S. CHASE is an Associate Professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI. He also directs the War College's Mahan Research Group, focusing on strategic deterrence issues. His main areas of research include Chinese nuclear policy, strategy, force modernization, U.S.-China relations, Taiwan's defense policy, and Asia Pacific security issues. Professor Chase previously served as a faculty member in the War College's Strategy and Policy Department, a research analyst at Defense Group Inc., and an associate international policy analyst at RAND. Professor Chase holds a B.A. in politics from Brandeis University, an M.A. in China Studies and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). NEIL J. DIAMANT has been a professor at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, since 2002. He has also taught at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Diamant has received research and teaching grants from Fulbright, the Luce Foundation, the Freeman Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation. He is currently studying veteran politics in the 21st century as well as Chinese Constitutionalism in the Mao era. Dr. Diamant is the author of Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968 (2000) and Embattled Glory: Veterans, Military Families and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949-2007 (2009). He has co-edited, with Kevin J. O'Brien and Stanley Lubman, Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice (2005). His articles have appeared in The China Quarterly, The Journal of East Asian Studies, Politics and Society, Modern Asian Studies, the Law and Society Review and the Journal of Conflict Resolution, among others. Dr. Diamant holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
DANIEL M. HARTNETT is a Research Scientist in CNA's China Studies Division. Prior to joining CNA, he was the Senior Policy Analyst for Military and Security Affairs at the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Mr. Hartnett began his career as a Russian and Serbo-Croatian linguist in the U.S. Army, where he employed his language skills during the civil war in Bosnia. He also worked in the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, where he assisted the department in nuclear nonproliferation negotiations with Beijing. An accomplished linguist, TIMOTHY R. HEATH is Senior Analyst for the U.S. Pacific Command China Strategic Focus Group. He has over 12 years' experience as a China specialist in the U.S. Government. He has published several academic articles on topics related to Chinese strategy, military, and leadership. Mr. Heath earned his M.A. in Asian studies from George Washington University.
LONNIE HENLEY is the Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for China at DIA and a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Level executive service. He has been a China specialist since his undergraduate studies in the mid-1970s, including 22 years as a U.S. Army military intelligence and foreign area officer and the past 12 years as a civilian. His post-Army positions include Defense Intelligence Officer for East Asia; Senior Defense Intelligence Expert for Strategic Warning; senior analyst at CENTRA Technology, Inc.; Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia (ODNI Senior National Intelligence Service); and his current position since 2008. Mr. Henley holds a bachelor's degree in engineering and Chinese from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and master's degreesin Chinese language from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar; in modern Chinese history from Columbia University; and in strategic intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College.
ROY KAMPHAUSEN is a retired U.S. Army China Foreign Area officer, Senior Advisor for Political and Security Affairs at The National Bureau of Asian Research, and an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's School of International andPublic Affairs.
DAVID LAI is a Research Professor of Asian Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army War College. Before joining SSI, Dr. Lai was on the faculty of the U.S. Air War College. Having grown up in China, Lai witnessed China's "Cultural Revolution," its economic reform, and changes in China's foreign relations (the most important of which is U.S.-China relations) over the years. Dr. Lai's most recent publication is Asia Pacific: A Strategic Assessment (2013). Dr. Lai holds a bachelor's degree from China, and a master's degree and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado.NAN LI is an associate professor at the China Maritime Studies Institute of the U.S. Naval War College. He has published extensively on Chinese security and military policy. Mr. Nan's writings have appeared in Security Studies, China Quarterly, China Journal, Armed Forces & Society, Issues and Studies, and many others. He has contributed to edited volumes from RAND Corporation, Clarendon Press, National Defense University Press, and M. E. Sharpe. He has also published a monograph with the U.S. Institute of Peace. He is the editor of Chinese Civil-Military Relations: The Transformation of the People's Liberation Army (Routledge, 2006).
JOE McREYNOLDS is a researcher at Defense Group Inc.'s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. His research interests primarily center on China's cyber warfare capabilities and defense science and technology development. He has previously worked with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council for International Policy. Mr. McReynolds is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Graduate Security Studies programs.
JAMES MULVENON is Vice-President of Defense Group, Inc.'s (DGI) Intelligence Division and Director of DGI's Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. At CIRA, Dr. Mulvenon runs teams of nearly 20 security-cleared Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Pashto, Urdu, and Dari/Farsi linguist-analysts performing open-source research for the U.S. Government. A specialist on the Chinese military and cyber warfare, Dr. Mulvenon's research focuses on Chinese command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, and reconnaissance, defense research, development, and acquisition organizations and policy, strategic weapons programs (computer network operations and nuclear warfare), cryptography, and the military and civilian implications of the informationrevolution in China.
TRAVIS TANNER is a Senior Project Director and Director of the Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies at The National Bureau of Asian Research. Prior to joining NBR, he was Deputy Director and Assistant Director of the Chinese Studies Program at The NixonCenter. He also worked as a research assistant at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. Mr. Tanner's interests and expertise include Northeast Asian regional security, China's economy and foreign affairs, and Taiwan politics. Mr. Tanner holds a B.A. from the University of Utah in Chinese language and literature and an M.A. in international relations from both the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China.
CHRISTOPHER P. TWOMEY is a tenured Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. In 2004, he joined the NPS faculty, later serving as Associate Chair for Research and as Director of the Center for Contemporary Conflict from 2007-09. Today, he works closely with the Departments of Defense and State on a range of diplomatic engagements across Asia and regularly advises Pacific Command, Strategic Command, and the Office of Net Assessment. He has previously taught or researched at Harvard University, Boston College, RAND, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and has been researcher for the National Bureau of Asian Research in various capacities continually since 2010. Dr. Twomey's book, The Military Lens: Doctrinal Differences and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations (Cornell University Press, 2010), explains how differing military doctrines complicate diplomatic signaling, interpretations of those signals, and assessments of the balance of power. He edited Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (2008), and his work has appeared in journals such as Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Survey, Nonproliferation Review, Contemporary Security Policy, Asia Policy, Current History, and Arms Control Today, in addition to a dozen edited volumes. Dr. Twomey holds a Ph.D. from MIT in political science.