Publications

Books and Book Chapters

“Missionary Zeal, Profits and Constituent Interests: The Politics Behind Permanent Normal Trade Relations,” Lanham Maryland, Lexington Books, forthcoming. 

The Dragon Extends its Reach: Chinese Military Power Goes Global. Herndon, VA: Potomac Books, Inc., 2013

“Chiang Kai-Shek and the Loss of China.” In The Cold War: Opening Shots 1945-1950, eds. Mark F. Wilkinson and Timothy Dowling, 135-138. Lexington, VA: Virginia Military Institute, 2003.

With Xia Liping. “PLA Operational Principles and Limited War: The Sino-Indian War of 1962.” In Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience since 1949, ed. Mark Ryan, 173-198. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003.

“The People’s Liberation Army and China’s Economy: Divestiture, WTO Accession, and What the World Can Expect.” In Economics and National Security: The Case of China, eds. Kent H. Butts and Edward L. Hughes, 231-259. Carlisle, PA: Center for Strategic Leadership, 2002. 

“The General Political Department and the Evolution of the Political Commissar System.” In The People’s Liberation Army as Organization, Reference Volume v1.0, eds. James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N.D. Yang, 225-245. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002.

Edited with Andrew Scobell, China’s Growing Military Power: Perspectives on Security, Ballistic Missiles, and Conventional Capabilities. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2002. 

Edited with Andrew Scobell, The Costs of Conflict: The Impact on China of a Future War. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2001.  

The Asia-Pacific in the U.S. National Security Calculus for a New Millennium. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2000.

Editor and chapter author, The Chinese Armed Forces in the 21st Century. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 1999. 

“China’s Vulnerability Dilemma.” In Proceedings from the Conference on Countering the Missile Threat: International Military Strategies, Ed. Jim Colbert, 27-30. Washington, DC: The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, 1999.

Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military History. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999.

China’s Military Potential. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 1998.

The ASEAN Regional Forum: Asian Security without an American Umbrella. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 1996.

Editor and chapter author, China’s Military Modernization: International Implications. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Journal Papers, Magazine Articles, and Op-Eds

“Breaking China's Stranglehold on the U.S. Rare Earth Elements Supply Chain,” American Foreign Policy Council, 2021

“What India’s Relationship with Iran Means for America,” The National Interest, February 2021.

“Hypersonic Weapons,” American Foreign Policy Council, 2019.

Mobilization in Communist China and Case Studies, Association of the United States Army, Land Warfare paper 136, 2020.

 What the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Can Do to Thwart the Army’s Multi-Domain Task Force, Association of the United States Army, Land Warfare paper 126, 2019.

“The Limitations of Military-Civil Mobilization: Problems with Funding and Clashing Interests in Industry-Based PLA Reserve Units,” China Brief, Jamestown.org, October 2019.

“The Tiananmen Massacre Remembered at 30 Years: The Chinese Communist Party’s Political and Military Considerations,” China Brief, Jamestown.org, June 2019.

“Mil Hypersonic Weapons in China’s Military Strategies,” American Foreign Policy Council, Defense Technology Brief, May 2019. 

“The PLA Contingency Planning in the Case of India,” in The People’s Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China, published by the U.S. National Defense University, Rand Corporation, and the Council on Advanced Policy Studies in Taiwan, 2015.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army and Space Warfare: Emerging United States-China Military Competition (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 2007) https://www.aei.org/publication/the-chinese-peoples-liberation-army-and-space-warfare/

“China and the Battlefield in Space.” Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Chinese Military Update, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 2003): 3-5.

“China Waging War on Space-Based Weapons.” FoxNews.com online edition, 11 August 2003.

“Unfiltered Intelligence.” Distributed nationally by Scripps-Howard News Service, September 2002.

“Yes: China’s Propensity for Settling Disputes with the Use of Force Poses a Direct Threat to U.S. Interests in the [Pacific] Region.” Insight Magazine, August 2002: 40, 42.

“Forging a New, Alliance-Based Approach to Export Controls.” Foresight Magazine (Japan), February 2001.

“Yes: The United States Should Feel Threatened by China’s Growing Role in the International Military/Political Arena.” Retired Officer, December 2000: 35-36.

“Three New Looks at China.” Parameters 30, no. 4 (Winter 2000/2001).

“China Pursues Great Power Status.” Orbis Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Spring 1994): 157-175.

Army War College Monographs

Taking the Fight to the Enemy: Chinese Thinking about Long Distance and Expeditionary Operations (July 2016)

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army and Information Warfare (March 2014)

Chinese Nuclear Forces: Operations, Training, Doctrine, Command, Control, and Campaign Planning (May 2007)

The Asean Regional Forum: Asian Security Without an American Umbrella (December 1996)