Study Of Yang Jie's Thought On National Defense Strategy

Yang Jie is a famous military theorist, revolutionist, diplomatist, and patriot inmodern China, as well as a representative figure of modern China's bourgeois nationaldefense theory. Based on experiences in military practices and theoretical researches allthrough his life, his thought on national defense strategy, which was developed fromChinese traditional military science, actively absorbed foreign achievements of militarythought and combined the China's conditions and times closely, was generated andformed,. Yang Jie's thought on national defense strategy which basically encompassesall the elements of national defense construction consists of universal national defensethought, people's national defense thought, the selection of the key parts of nationaldefense construction and etcetera. His thought has great influence on Chinese modernnational defense theory and practice of national defense construction.The paper aims togive an all-round review on history and present situation of Yang Jie's research,systematically study the main elements of his thought on national defense strategy,scientifically evaluate and analyse its historical position and effect, then obtain someenlightenments to how to strengthen national defense and army building. On one hand,it will help to have a deeper research on Yang Jie's military thought, and the research ofhistory of modern Chinese military thought. On the other hand, it will help to explorehow to apply military thought and theory correctly to instruct practice of nationaldefense and military in the period of military reform and transformation, thus get thecharacteristic and rule of construction of national defense and military.