Susan M. Puska is a Senior Intelligence Analyst with DGI’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. She specializes in Chinese military modernization, emerging dual-use technologies, military logistics, crisis management, and political-military issues. She served as the U.S. Army Attaché, U.S. Defense Attaché Office (DAO), U.S. Embassy, Beijing, during 2001-2003. Colonel Puska retired from the U.S. Army in 2005.

Susan Puska has a B.A. degree from Michigan State University and a M.A. degree in China Studies from The University of Michigan. She is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Defense Language Institute (DLI), Armed Forces Staff College, and The Johns Hopkins – Nanjing University Center for American and Chinese Studies.

Publications include:

Monographs:

People’s Liberation Army After Next, Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle, PA, 2000.

New Century, Old Thinking: The Dangers of the Perceptual Gap in U.S.-China Relations, Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle, PA, 1998.

Book Chapters:

"Resources, Security and Influence: The Role of the Military in China’s Africa Strategy," in China in Africa, Arthur Waldron, editor, The Jamestown Foundation, Washington D.C., 2008.

"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, Dr. Andrew Scobel and Dr. Larry M. Wortzel, editors, Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle, PA, 2006.

"SARS 2002-2003: A Case Study in Crisis Management,"in Chinese National Security Under Stress, Dr. Andrew Scobell and Dr. Larry M. Wortzel, editors, Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle, PA, 2005.

"The People’s Liberation Army General Logistics Department: Toward Joint Logistics Support,"in The PLA as Organization, James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N. Yang, editors, RAND, Washington, D.C., 2002.

Article:

"Resources, Security and Influence: The Role of the Military in China’s Africa Strategy", China Brief, 30 May 2007.