Institutional Domain
Military, National Security, and War Mobilization
Party control of the military, the CMC system, national security, civil-military fusion, and mobilization.
Party control of the military, the CMC system, national security, civil-military fusion, and mobilization. This page groups 20 articles and 6 cases by institution, mechanism, timeline, and documented event. Items may also appear in other domains when the same power process crosses organizational boundaries.
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Institution
5- The People's Armed Police: The Boundary Between Internal Security and Military CommandThe armed police conduct counterterrorism, emergency response, and protection of key sites under a system linking military command and domestic security.
- The Central Military Commission: Direct Party Command of Armed ForceThe Central Military Commission is the organizational center of Party command over the PLA and armed police; military nationalization is not the institutional objective.
- The National Defense Mobilization System: Bringing Local Government Into War PreparationNational-defense mobilization connects personnel, transport, industry, health, communications, civil defense, and local administration.
- The CMC Political Work Department: Loyalty, Personnel, and Ideological ControlThe political-work system connects personnel, Party organization, propaganda education, and loyalty to military command.
- The Five Theater Commands: Reorganizing Joint Operational CommandThe theater-command reform separates service force-building from joint operational command and organizes readiness by strategic direction.
Mechanism
7- Civil-Military Fusion: Moving Technology, Capital, and Talent Into DefenseCivil-military fusion seeks to shorten the distance between civilian research, supply chains, and military demand.
- Military Party Committees: Political Organization Inside CommandMilitary Party committees place major development, personnel, and political matters inside collective leadership and commander responsibility.
- Military Procurement Corruption and the Dual Chain of Political PurgeHow procurement, promotion, military discipline, and readiness rectification become connected in anti-corruption campaigns.
- Military Secrecy and Public AccountabilityMilitary secrecy has legitimate scope, but broad security language can obscure budgets, accidents, procurement, and personnel responsibility.
- The Holistic National Security Concept: Expanding the Security BoundaryThe holistic national-security concept places political, economic, technological, cultural, social, cyber, and overseas interests in one security vocabulary.
- Loyalty Purges: How Anti-Corruption Reorders Military PowerMilitary anti-corruption addresses real corruption while affecting promotion networks, procurement ties, factional security, and top-leader authority.
- Wartime Information Mobilization: Propaganda, Censorship, and Social OrganizationWar mobilization involves military information, public emotion, rumor control, platforms, and social resources.
Case
6- The Hong Kong Garrison and Symbolic DeterrenceThe presence of the garrison, public exercises, and official statements can change political risk without direct street deployment.
- Military Anti-Corruption: Purges in the Rocket Force and Equipment SystemPersonnel upheaval in the Rocket Force and equipment system joins procurement corruption, readiness credibility, and top-level control.
- PLA Mobilization During Covid: Medical Support and Political DisplayPLA medical support had real public-health functions and was also used in narratives of organizational efficiency and institutional superiority.
- Maritime Militia in the South China Sea: Blurring Actors in the Gray ZoneOverlap among fishing vessels, local subsidies, coast guard, and naval activity creates ambiguity and deniability.
- Taiwan Strait Exercises: Military Training as Political CoercionExercises around Taiwan serve training, deterrence, domestic mobilization, international signaling, and normalization of operations.
- Veteran Protests: When Military Identity Becomes a Stability TargetVeteran welfare claims touch military honor, local finance, organizational capacity, and social stability.
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6- The Hong Kong Garrison and Symbolic DeterrenceThe presence of the garrison, public exercises, and official statements can change political risk without direct street deployment.
- Military Anti-Corruption: Purges in the Rocket Force and Equipment SystemPersonnel upheaval in the Rocket Force and equipment system joins procurement corruption, readiness credibility, and top-level control.
- PLA Mobilization During Covid: Medical Support and Political DisplayPLA medical support had real public-health functions and was also used in narratives of organizational efficiency and institutional superiority.
- Maritime Militia in the South China Sea: Blurring Actors in the Gray ZoneOverlap among fishing vessels, local subsidies, coast guard, and naval activity creates ambiguity and deniability.
- Taiwan Strait Exercises: Military Training as Political CoercionExercises around Taiwan serve training, deterrence, domestic mobilization, international signaling, and normalization of operations.
- Veteran Protests: When Military Identity Becomes a Stability TargetVeteran welfare claims touch military honor, local finance, organizational capacity, and social stability.