Preparing for Great Power Conflict: How Experience Shapes U.S. and Chinese Military Training

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Program

Over the past two decades, the U.S. military and China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) have been shaped by very different experiences: the U.S. military has gained significant direct combat experience, but has done so against technologically inferior, nonpeer adversaries; the PLA meanwhile has had no direct combat experience and has designed concepts of operation based on indirect observations and lessons from U.S. operations since 1991.

Please join the RAND National Security Research Division on Thursday, July 13, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern for the launch of Preparing for Great Power Conflict: How Experience Shapes U.S. and Chinese Military Training, a new report by Mark Cozad, RAND senior international defense researcher, Keith Gierlack, Cortez A. Cooper III, Susan G. Straus, et al. In conversation with RAND senior policy researcher Michelle Grisé, Cozad and team will discuss the effects these differences have on military training, as well as on readiness for and performance in a major power conflict.

About PRH

The Personnel, Readiness, and Health Program (PRH), part of the RAND National Security Research Division, conducts research and analysis on strategic human capital management in the national security sector. The PRH research portfolio is framed around four broad themes: personnel management, readiness, support programs and services, and health services and systems. PRH's ongoing projects—including the career development of military and civilian personnel; individual and unit readiness; family support, reintegration, and quality-of-life programs; and military health policy—are broadly applicable to U.S., allied, and partner forces.

Contact

Please register to attend. Contact Sharlyn Harlequin with questions about the event.