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Examines trends during the Bush administration. Categories of allocation, openness to view, military intelligence, and challenges for Robert Gates.

The role of the nuclear arms in the Sino-Soviet dispute is discussed. It is demonstrated that US nuclear superiority over the USSR in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a sufficient cause of the dispute. The massive Soviet nuclear superiority over Peking, combined with the real threat that Moscow might use such forces against China in the late 1960s, caused Peking to seek detente with the USA. Prospects of arms control negotiations between the USSR and China. (DÜI-Sen)

The analytical approaches so far devoted to the contemporary People's Liberation Army (PLA) have been of three general types. First, biographical studies which explain events in terms of the individual military leaders and their inter-relationships. Second, some students of the PLA have devised analytical models of informal power structures. The behaviour of the PLA in the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," has been interpreted by some as determined by personal loyalties, latent regionalism, and cliques formed around common service in military units prior to 1949. Others have viewed the PLA as split between "professional" commanders and the political cadres in the armed forces – sometimes dubbed a "Red versus expert" analysis. These categories of studies have one thing in common; they treat PLA institutions as being manipulated by informal and extra-legal forces. The third type of study emphasizes organizational and institutional frameworks. This paper falls into the third category. It asks the question: to what extent were the military institutions the subject or object of developments in the Cultural Revolution? It concludes that the organizational structures of the PLA and the missions assigned them heavily influenced the political behaviour of military leaders in the provinces.