People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)

Authors

Christopher Rahman, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

110028

Publication Details

Rahman, C. (2016). People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). In C. Waters (Ed.), Navies in the 21st Century (pp. 93-104). Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing.

Abstract

The steady improvement of China's PLAN in the quarter-century since the end of the Cold War arguably may not have been the most institutionally transformative single naval development of the period. However, it is undoubtedly the naval transformation of by far the greatest strategic consequence.