Communist China as a Military Power

Ralph L. Powell, formerly a faculty member at Princeton University, was a professor at the National War College from 1954 to 1956 and again between 1958 and 1961. He also served as Counselor of Embassy for Public Affairs at Taipei on Taiwan in 1957–1958. Mr. Powell is author of The Rise of Chinese Military Power, 1895–1912 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955) and Politico- Military Relationships in Communist China (Washington, D. C.: Department of State, 1963).