Deng Xiaoping's Long War

Xiaoming Zhang is professor of strategy and history at the Air War College.

The definitive work on the subject...Well-researched and clearly-written study fills a gap in our knowledge about China's preparation and execution of the Third Indochina War"". - H-Diplo""[A] superb example of history writing at its best . . . [and] one of the best explanations of China's current strategic approach to military action. Essential"". - Choice""[A] skillful study. . . . Reminds readers of the reasons why fundamental distrust persists on both sides"". - Foreign Affairs""A useful synthesis . . . of the current state of knowledge on this subject"". - Journal of Chinese Military History""Valuable not only for its detailed description and assessment of the 1979 conflict, but importantly also because of its account of actions after the main hostilities"". - Asian Affairs""Explores the Sino-Vietnamese military conflict that ran from 1979 to 1991. . . . Draw[s] from an impressive range of Chinese sources for this work"". - Canadian Journal of History