Poverty of Riches. New Challenges and Opportunities in PLA Research.

摘要

This paper provides an overview of the development of PME in the PLA since 1950. The PLA has gradually improved the quality of its educational system and thereby the basic educational level of its officers, though many significant problems remain. Moreover, and perhaps more importantly in the long term, the nature of PME in China is changing, moving from a highly specialized system based on the Soviet military towards a system that increasingly looks like the American system (in form if not always in content). These changes in structure, teaching style and content, and goals have very significant implications for the combat potential of the PLA in the 21st century.