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| Tango01 | 25 Sep 2014 10:33 p.m. PST |
"In the days before the Internet, it was difficult to find detailed, timely information on foreign armed forces. Secretive, backward China was a particularly difficult country to assess. The Chinese War Machine changed that. The 1979 book was, for a long time, the best look at the Chinese armed forces an ordinary person could hope to get. The authors and contributors — including a youthful Bill Sweetman—hailed from highly-regarded institutions including Sandhurst, the Warship Society, the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute, the Rand Corporation and Jane's. And The Chinese War Machine is still useful. It's a reminder of how far Beijing's military has come in just 35 years. The People's Liberation Army in The Chinese War Machine wore spinach-color army uniforms, practiced aerial tactics with toy airplanes and sailed in green coastal waters…"
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