The coming of the third front campaign -- Good people and good horses go to the third front -- Concentrating forces to wage wars of annihilation -- Produce first and consume later -- Industrial development amid cold war insecurity -- Epilogue: the demilitarization of Chinese socialism.

This paper continues and builds on efforts to center the study of national security policy as a field in American and comparative politics and public policy. The traditional division of labor that kept national security policy predominantly the province and concern of IR has eroded, especially...