This book will explore China’s strategic goals and describe the military measures that the PLA is implementing to achieve these goals. It will argue that theater geography, financial asymmetries, and gaps in international law encourage the PLA to engage in a projectile-centric strategy that is destabilizing in nature, yet unlikely to change because it is the most effective means available for assuring that the Chinese threshold for victory could conceivably be reached in a conflict. It will conclude with recommendations for Indian, Pakistani, and Tibet policymakers and defense planners