英文摘要 |
Strategic culture can be conceived as a coherent and persistent entity of ideas, in a given socio-historical context, shared by a security community in regard to the use of armed forces and the role of military institutions. Strategic culture is not an independent variable, but a context of meaning that helps us understanding the preference of strategic choice. Using strategic culture as theoretical framework, this article tries to apply an historical interpretation to contemporary China's military doctrine: Active Defense. We find some valuable historiographical records about Active Defense from the early Song's military struggles with Liao Dynasty during the 10th century. Mao Zedong's writings about People's War, during the communist revolution war and the resistance war against Japanese invasion, make Active Defense one of the central believes of the People's Liberation Army. Deng Xiaoping raises Active Defense to the highest level of China's Grand Strategy and terms it as Peace and Development. However, Active Defense does not mean de-militarization. On the contrary, the pressure to resolve the Taiwan Issue increases while the transformation of China's economy accelerates. The PLA Navy's modernization during the last decades and its Near Sea Active Defense doctrine, have no intention to become an expansionist offensive navy, but to reunify Taiwan and achieve the territorial integrity. |