UNCLASSIFIED: DoD Status of Forces for China (PRC) 2012 REPORT with Focus on High-Intensity, INFORMATION-CENTRIC Military OPS

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MILITARY AND SECURITY DEVELOPMENTS INVOLVING THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF

CHINA, 2012.

A Report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act

for Fiscal Year 2010. "The report shall address the current and probable

future course of military technological development of the People's

Liberation Army and the tenets and probable development of Chinese

security strategy and military strategy, and of the military

organizations and operational concepts, through the next 20 years. The

report shall also address United States-China engagement and cooperation

on security matters during the period covered by the report, including

through United States-China military-to-military contacts, and the

United States strategy for such engagement and cooperation in the

future."

To View: http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/2012_CMPR_Final.pdf

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (Excerpt)::

THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC)

is pursuing a long-term, comprehensive military modernization

program designed to improve the capacity

of China’s armed forces to fight and win “local wars

under conditions of informatization,” or high-intensity,

information-centric regional military operations of

short duration. China’s leaders view modernization

of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) as an

essential component of their strategy to take advantage

of what they perceive to be a “window of strategic

opportunity” to advance China’s national development

during the first two decades of the 21st century. During

this period, China’s leaders are placing a priority

on fostering a positive external environment to provide

the PRC with the strategic space to focus on economic

growth and development.

 At the same time, Chinese leaders seek to maintain peace and stability along their

country’s periphery, expand their diplomatic influence to

facilitate access to markets, capital, and resources, and

avoid direct confrontation with the United States and

other countries. "is strategy has led to an expansion of

China’s presence in regions all over the world, creating

new and expanding economic and diplomatic interests.

As these interests have grown, and as China has

assumed new roles and responsibilities in the international

community, China’s military modernization

is, to an increasing extent, focusing on investments in

military capabilities that would enable China’s armed

forces to conduct a wide range of missions, including

those farther from China. Even as the PLA is contending

with this growing array of missions, preparing for

contingencies in the Taiwan Strait remains the principal

focus and driver of much of China’s military investment.

In this context, over the past year, the PLA continued

to build the capabilities and develop the doctrine

it considers necessary to deter Taiwan from declaring

independence; to deter, delay, and deny e&ective U.S.

intervention in a potential cross-Strait con%ict; and to

defeat Taiwan forces in the event of hostilities.

To support the PLA’s expanding set of roles and missions,

China’s leaders in 2011 sustained investment in

advanced cruise missiles, short and medium range conventional

ballistic missiles, anti-ship ballistic missiles,

counterpace weapons, and military cyberspace capabilities

which appear designed to enable anti-access/

area-denial (A2/AD) missions, or what PLA strategists

refer to as “counter intervention operations...”

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