It’s finally done … 😀
As already announced at the Harpia-PF-site (https://www.facebook.com/Harpia-Publish … 8/?fref=ts), here is Harpia’s latest publication soon to be available:
“Flashpoint China” is – together with “Iraqi Air Power Reborn” – one of the first books in an all-new format from Harpia Publishing. Those readers familiar with Harpia’s previous titles will recognize the layout, colour codes and high-quality paper. Compared to earlier Harpia titles, however, the new series are altogether more compact, running to a total of 80 pages, and enabling coverage of ‘smaller’ themes. Of course, these books also retain the now-familiar in-depth coverage, painstaking research and lavish illustrations (around 75 in all) of their ‘bigger brothers’.
But now to its content:
Originally initiated or born out of the idea to look out what’s the situation at the Chinese borders, to analyse what kind of issues are behind there, it evolved thru a historical review of the different flashpoints and disputes and added a look how does this fit to the current ORBAT. Main focus was therefore set on China’s sight and perception – if possible – to set a few things straight, that are often ignored, omitted or simply not even mentioned in the West.
Quite understandable this resulted in a huge amount of information concerning each and every different “flashpoint”, that in the end had to be cut down to a readable volume, especially since the 80-page limit was a strict “border not to be crossed”; indeed a demanding or even Herculean duty and I’m more than thankful to Tom, who had done this in majority.
In line of this process, the PLA announced its structural reform and even if the script was nearly done, we decided nearly by last-minute to rearrange everything and especially the maps – here another very grateful THANKs to James – in order to comply with the new Chinese command structure so that each chapter includes the latest photos of the frontline aircraft from the relevant command, an up-date ORBAT and a regional map with the relevant Chinese bases.
Overall, this booklet will describe and analyse the current and possible future conflicts between China and its neighbours from a Chinese perspective, with a particular focus on People’s Liberation Army air power. It includes a brief – to admit very brief but I hope sufficient long to explain – historical review.
As such I hope it was worth all efforts … but now it’s up to You to decide!
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