Introduction. The PLA beyond borders / Joel Wuthnow
Part I. Enabling operations: capabilities, infrastructure, and organizations. The PLA's expeditionary force: current capabilities and future trends / Kristen Gunness
Crossing the strait: recent trends in PLA 'strategic delivery' capabilities / Chung Chieh and Andrew N.D. Yang
China's overseas base, places, and far seas logistics / Isaac B. Kardon
PLA command and control of overseas operations / Phillip C. Saunders
China's air and maritime ISR in coastal defense and near seas operations / Shinji Yamaguchi
The PLA Strategic Support Force: a "joint" force for information operations / John Chen, Joe McReynolds, and Kieran Green
Part II. Into action: PLA operational concepts and practice. Reassessing China's use of military force / Andrew Scobell
Bomber strike packages with Chinese characteristics / Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
PLA operational lessons from UN peacekeeping / Joel Wuthnow
China's security assistance in global competition: the case of Africa / Jonah Victor
A new type of cross-border attack: the PLA's cyber force / Ying-Yu Lin
Space and Chinese national security: China's continuing great leap upward / Dean Cheng.