Posted on Feb 1, 2016
China Reorganizing Military to Close Gap with US
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RP Members should we be concerned? We have definitely given them 15 years of warfare to study!
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China's armed forces are undergoing a sweeping five-year reorganization aimed at creating central control over the military's nearly autonomous branches and creating a more lethal fighting force to close the gap with US capabilities, analysts say.
The restructuring is the most profound undertaken since the 1950s when Soviet advisers helped modernize the nation's post-civil war military, changes that will likely challenge long-held assumptions by the Pentagon, according to David M. Finkelstein, director of the China Studies division of CNA, a Washington, D.C.,-based research center.
The reorganization, which officially launched Jan. 1, will fundamentally redefine the roles, missions and authorities among the services -- particularly the People's Liberation Army, or PLA -- and the Central Military Command, Finkelstein wrote in a paper released Friday.
The changes include disbanding the country's seven military regions and replacing them with joint-warfighting commands in charge of "war zones" or "theaters of operation." Also newly formed will be the PLA Rocket Force, which will be responsible for the nation's nuclear and conventional missiles.
What are your thoughts?
China's armed forces are undergoing a sweeping five-year reorganization aimed at creating central control over the military's nearly autonomous branches and creating a more lethal fighting force to close the gap with US capabilities, analysts say.
The restructuring is the most profound undertaken since the 1950s when Soviet advisers helped modernize the nation's post-civil war military, changes that will likely challenge long-held assumptions by the Pentagon, according to David M. Finkelstein, director of the China Studies division of CNA, a Washington, D.C.,-based research center.
The reorganization, which officially launched Jan. 1, will fundamentally redefine the roles, missions and authorities among the services -- particularly the People's Liberation Army, or PLA -- and the Central Military Command, Finkelstein wrote in a paper released Friday.
The changes include disbanding the country's seven military regions and replacing them with joint-warfighting commands in charge of "war zones" or "theaters of operation." Also newly formed will be the PLA Rocket Force, which will be responsible for the nation's nuclear and conventional missiles.
China Reorganizing Military to Close Gap with US
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I wish we'd never sent their NCOs to our service academies - that was ultimately stupid.
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why would we hope for that? they're communists bent on removing the US from power. I hope they fail completely and the gap widens permanently!
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I think the greatest threat would be the creation of a new training system for all inductees -- and career NCOs as well as officers -- that would put an emphasis on creative approaches to tactical problems. This, combined with a focus on small unit leadership similar to our squads and fire-teams, would force us to deal with a numerically superior force that would be painfully close in ability to our own well trained troops. At some point, we will undoubtedly engage with the PRC's ground forces again, as we did in Korea. Such an engagement will be costly regarding casualties should the PRC adopt a tactical, educational, and motivational regimen that models our own.
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