CIAO DATE: 05/2014

Does Doctrine Drive Technology or Does Technology Drive Doctrine?

September 2010

Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California

Abstract

Within China’s overall national strategy, priority goes to national economic development. How this fits with the PLA’s needs to modernize and China’s overall military strategy is driven by the concept of People’s War that emphasizes strategy over technology and may hold some surprises for the United States.

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