Cortez A. Cooper III

Overview

Commentary

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  Getting to Know the Competition

  Americans are facing a new reality in global great power relations that will define the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy for the foreseeable future. Understanding China's threat perceptions, while remaining clear-eyed regarding differences in objectives, is essential to developing strategies to deter conflict.

  May 13, 2019 RealClearDefense

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  Experts, Scholars Evaluate Chinese Strategic Thinking

  On April 30, experts, scholars, and government analysts gathered at RAND Corporation offices in Arlington, Va., to evaluate changing Chinese strategic thinking on threat perceptions, doctrine, and strategic concepts for employing military power to advance national goals.

  May 12, 2014

Publications

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  Report

  People's Liberation Army Operational Concepts

  In this report, authors assess China's military theory, strategy, and guiding principles, in addition to doctrinal or operational concepts, to help U.S. strategists and planners formulate responses to China's evolving military strategy and doctrine.

  Sep 29, 2020

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  Report

  Chinese Views of Big Data Analytics

  The authors of this report use Chinese primary-source materials to provide a preliminary analysis of China's expectations for the use of big data analytics and the country's plans and strategies for development of big data analytic capabilities.

  Sep 1, 2020

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  Report

  China's Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories, and Long-Term Competition

  To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report assessed how successful China might be at implementing its grand strategy goals over the next three decades.

  Jul 24, 2020

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  Testimony

  PLA Military Modernization: Drivers, Force Restructuring, and Implications

  Testimony presented before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on February 15, 2018.

  Feb 15, 2018

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  Report

  Transformation of Taiwan's Reserve Force

  Assesses Taiwan's current reserve force and discusses steps that Taiwan can take to enhance the role of the reserves in deterring and, if necessary, defending against a cross-Strait invasion.

  Feb 22, 2017

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  Report

  The PLA and China's Rejuvenation: National Security and Military Strategies, Deterrence Concepts, and Combat Capabilities

  This study describes China's national and security strategies and its approach to war and escalation control; summarizes its military capabilities developments; and reviews its concepts for deterrence in strategic and conventional domains.

  Dec 6, 2016

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  Brochure

  China, Inside and Out: A Collection of Essays on Foreign and Domestic Policy in the Xi Jinping Era

  This collection of essays explore some of the realities of China's overriding philosophies.

  Oct 20, 2015

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  Multimedia

  U.S.–Japan Alliance Conference Series Proceedings

  In a series of conferences, U.S. and Japanese experts explored the challenges for the U.S.-Japan alliance associated with China's military modernization drive and increasing foreign policy assertiveness.

  Jan 21, 2015

• Journal Article

  Journal Article

  China's Aircraft Carrier Program: Drivers, Developments, Implications

  This paper examines first the drivers, the operational capabilities, and then the future trajectory of China's carrier program. We evaluate the implications of the carrier program for the balance of maritime power in the western Pacific and beyond.

  2015

• Testimony

  Testimony

  Joint Anti-Access Operations: China's "System-of-Systems" Approach

  Testimony presented before the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission on January 27, 2011.

  Jan 27, 2011

• Testimony

  Testimony

  The PLA Navy's "New Historic Missions": Expanding Capabilities for a Re-emergent Maritime Power

  Testimony presented before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on June 11, 2009.

  Jun 8, 2009