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Title: The {open_quotes}Command and Control{close_quotes} philosophy of the Communist party of China

Abstract

China`s central political authorities have constructed a system which is designed to enable them to exert their personal influence and control over each level of every organization in the country -- both civil and military. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is represented at all levels of each and every organization, including the People`s Liberation Army (PLA). These Party entities are intended to both provide oversight and to ensure that Party policies, directives and orders are obeyed. This penchant for political control, which may have its roots in China`s imperial past, appears to have been reinforced by the early developmental path chosen by the Party`s leadership. Current attempts aimed at maintaining political control of its resources, especially the military, are embodied in the formal system of {open_quotes}Political Work.{close_quotes} In the PLA, this system of political control results in the involvement of political organs in day-to-day military matters to an extent unheard of in the West. Further work is needed in order to understand, more fully, both the system of {open_quotes}Political Work{close_quotes} and its contributions to the overall military (and civil) command and control philosophic of the Communist Party of China.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
212749
Report Number(s):
SAND-95-2932
ON: DE96009153; TRN: 96:002464
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jan 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; CHINA; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; RESOURCES; CONTROL; MILITARY PERSONNEL

Citation Formats

Kominiak, G J, Eisenberger, J C, and Menaul, K L. The {open_quotes}Command and Control{close_quotes} philosophy of the Communist party of China. United States: N. p., 1996. Web. doi:10.2172/212749.
Kominiak, G J, Eisenberger, J C, & Menaul, K L. The {open_quotes}Command and Control{close_quotes} philosophy of the Communist party of China. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/212749
Kominiak, G J, Eisenberger, J C, and Menaul, K L. 1996. "The {open_quotes}Command and Control{close_quotes} philosophy of the Communist party of China". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/212749. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/212749.
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title = {The {open_quotes}Command and Control{close_quotes} philosophy of the Communist party of China},
author = {Kominiak, G J and Eisenberger, J C and Menaul, K L},
abstractNote = {China`s central political authorities have constructed a system which is designed to enable them to exert their personal influence and control over each level of every organization in the country -- both civil and military. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is represented at all levels of each and every organization, including the People`s Liberation Army (PLA). These Party entities are intended to both provide oversight and to ensure that Party policies, directives and orders are obeyed. This penchant for political control, which may have its roots in China`s imperial past, appears to have been reinforced by the early developmental path chosen by the Party`s leadership. Current attempts aimed at maintaining political control of its resources, especially the military, are embodied in the formal system of {open_quotes}Political Work.{close_quotes} In the PLA, this system of political control results in the involvement of political organs in day-to-day military matters to an extent unheard of in the West. Further work is needed in order to understand, more fully, both the system of {open_quotes}Political Work{close_quotes} and its contributions to the overall military (and civil) command and control philosophic of the Communist Party of China.},
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year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1996},
month = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1996}
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