The PLA at Home and Abroad - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army

SUSAN M. PUSKA, a retired U.S. Army Colonel,
is a researcher at the Defense Group, Inc., Center for
Intelligence Research and Analysis (CIRA). She currently
investigates Chinese dual-use RDA, military
modernization, and mobilization issues. Colonel Puska
served as the U.S. Army Attaché in Beijing during
2001-03, and an assistant Army attaché during 1992-
94. She attended The Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University
Center for Chinese and American Studies as a
China Foreign Area Officer (FAO) in 1988-89. Colonel
Puska’s publications include “Resources, Security and
Influence: The Role of the Military in China’s Africa
Strategy,” China Brief, May 30, 2007, “Assessing America
at War: Implications for China’s Military Modernization
and National Security,” in Shaping China’s Security Environment:
The Role of the People’s Liberation Army, (Carlisle,
PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War
College, 2006), and “SARS 2002-2003: A Case Study in
Crisis Management,“ in Chinese National Security: Decisionmaking
Under Stress (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies
Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005). Colonel
Puska holds an B.A. in archaeology and an M.A. in
China studies from the University of Michigan.
ANDREW SCOBELL is Senior Political Scientist at
the RAND Corporation. Prior to this he was Associate
Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School
of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
located in College Station, Texas. From August
1999 until August 2007, he was Associate Research
Professor in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S.
Army War College and Adjunct Professor of Political
Science at Dickinson College, both located in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania. He is the author of China’s Use of Military
Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March
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