The One Flaw In China s Military Rise: No Combat Experience
Beijing likes to talk a big talk, but a good military needs experience in addition to modern equipment and training.
Key point: Crack troops aren t called that for nothing. Here is why real-life experience with the stress of war matters for winning future fights.
A new assessment of the Chinese military by a reputable U.S. think tank concludes, in effect, that “the emperor has no clothes.” The authors of this report seem to be wary lest “… the US might be inclined to assume China has more sway in international affairs than its actual combat power merits.” This analysis claims to be more authoritative, based in part on an examination of “human capital” intangibles, which goes well beyond the rote “bean-counting” of simple force-structure analysis to look at command structures, health and recruiting, education, training, as well as corruption and civil-military relations.
China s 2027 Goal Marks the PLA s Centennial, Not an Expedited Military Modernization
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Global SOF Symposium, Uniting Special Operations Forces in Person in Florida
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A Detective in China: A Memoir of Sleuthing Out Trade Cheating SpyTalk
I first realized we were going to China while sitting at a bus stop outside the Commerce Department. It was late on a sunny spring afternoon in 1990. The Washington Monument rose high above as snarled rush-hour traffic inched along Constitution Avenue. I was reading
Life and Death in Shanghai, by Nien Cheng. Not really a beginner in Chinese but still struggling, I had an English copy and a Chinese version of the book balanced on both knees, comparing their otherwise identical passages about her arrest in 1966 at the start of Mao s manic Cultural Revolution.