China Military Construction on US-Soviet Templates

[nightcrawler]

DefenceDog: China Military Construction on US-Soviet Templates

Abstracts:

• From the White Paper makes it clear that China is very well studied all the latest American military theory and based on them is hosting a "revolution in military affairs with Chinese characteristics." A typical mechanized army will be implemented the provisions of the network-centric warfare. The Chinese have borrowed from the Americans as the concept of "joint operations" (ie, the interaction of all branches of the armed forces). The White Paper says that the focus of the PLA is shifting from quantity to quality and the scale and efficiency. The leitmotif of the entire document as is the idea of ​​the maximum capacity of Chinese military power based on the latest scientific and technological achievements.
  
• Very remarkable point: within the next five years in each military unit level Brigade/Regiment appears at least one professional psychotherapist, and in each Division company level – at least three of his aides. If the latter plans to "saturation" the PLA will psychologists; it seems to be first in the world. I wonder why would they?
  
• It must be noted that GDP growth in China almost every year, the highest in the world (and this despite the enormous absolute size of GDP) while military expenditures are growing almost twice as fast as GDP. Here again the question arises: why would it?
  
• Even if we assume the aggression against China by the U.S. (which is also absolutely impossible, but let's say), then more than obvious: it can only be realized in the form of air-missile strikes on targets PLA, the defense industry and infrastructure in China. The landing of the same American troops on the Chinese coast is only possible if the U.S. government is some way wants to get rid of its Marine Corps. Accordingly to reflect such an extremely unlikely aggression China needs to develop the air force and Navy, the army is not useful at all, hardly need (more precisely, useless) mobilization activities.
  

 

[below_freezing]

Russia is worried. However, China's population density is actually similar to that of the Czech Republic. Even if we consider 96% of the population concentrated in the eastern half, our density will be similar to that of Vietnam, and nowhere near South Korea, Japan, Germany, UK or Italy.

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