New details about the founding of China's Navy reveals critical
historical context and insight into future strategy From 1949 to
1950, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to
establish a navy and secure China's periphery. The civil war had
been fought with a peasant army, yet in order to capture key
offshore islands from the Nationalist rival, Mao Zedong needed to
develop maritime capabilities. Mao's Army Goes to Sea is a
ground-breaking history of the founding of the Chinese navy and
Communist China's earliest island-seizing campaigns. In this
definitive account of a little-known yet critical moment in China's
naval history, Toshi Yoshihara shows that Chinese leaders
refashioned the stratagems and tactics honed over decades of
revolutionary struggle on land for nautical purposes. Despite
significant challenges, the PLA ultimately scored important
victories over its Nationalist foes as it captured offshore islands
to secure its position. Drawing extensively from newly available
Chinese-language sources, this book reveals how the navy-building
process, sea battles, and contested offshore landings had a lasting
influence on the PLA. Even today, the institution's identity,
strategy, doctrine, and structure are conditioned by these early
experiences and myths. Mao's Army Goes to Sea will help US
policymakers and scholars place China's recent maritime
achievements in proper historical context-and provide insight into
how its navy may act in the future.
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