National Defense University of PLA (20210124173405)

Teaching Building of National Defence University

The National Defense University () is a

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headquartered in Haidian,

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, China, with constituent and affiliated military academies nationwide. Established in 1985 by a

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, the university is under the "institutional leadership" of the Central Military Commission. The university is the highest

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institution of China. The current president of the university is

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(PLA) lieutenant general Xiao Tianliang.

History

The National Defense University originated from the Red Army teaching team founded by

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in 1927. It has successively experienced the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army University and the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in the war years, as well as the Higher Military Academy and the Military and Political University after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In December 1985, by a military order signed by Deng Xiaoping, then

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, the National Defense University was established by merging the People's Liberation Army's Military Academy, the Political Academy, and the Logistics Academy. In 2017, a textbook published by the PLA National Defense University called the ''Science of Military Strategy'' debuted the potential for biological warfare to include "specific ethnic genetic attacks." In July 2017, under the chairmanship of

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, according to the order of the Central Military Commission, the former National Defense University, the Nanjing Institute of Political Science, the Xi'an Institute of Political Science, the PLA Academy of Art, the PLA Logistics Academy, the Shijiazhuang Ground Force Command Academy, the Armed Police Academy of Political Science, and some departments of the Equipment Academy merged to form the new National Defense University.

Events

The university hosted visitors from Singapore and Australia as well as partnered with foreign firms such as

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for

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arrangements. In 2015, the People's Liberation Army National Defense University formed a think tank called the China National Security Studies Centre.

Planning

Planners at National Defense University project China's space military actions in space as retaliatory or preventative, following conditions like an attack on a Chinese satellite, an attack on China, or the interruption of a PLA amphibious landing. According to this approach, PLA planners assume that the country must have the capacity for retaliation and

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against a powerful opponent. PLA planners envision a limited space war and therefore seek to identify weak but critical nodes in other space systems.

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