Tag: pla
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One Child, One Soldier: China’s weakness in its reliance on conscription.
The article is worth reading, the summary is that the PLA depends on 2-year conscripts for about 40% of its force, and most of its infantry. While China still has a large population and can be picky about who it drafts, the army creates friction between the military’s expanding need for manpower and the economy’s…
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China’s One Child, One Soldier Policy
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/red-army-private-ryans-what-wargaming-says-about-chinese-willingness-strike-first-and-stay Small Wars Journal points out that any conflict between the US and China will not be a limited one, it will be total war when it comes. While the US has recently sought out to place limits on its conflict, China’s limits are within its demographics. With a one (or more recent two) child…
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Invasion or Coersion?
https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/08/10/the-big-taiwan-question-as-china-issues-warnings-and-holds-military-drills-is-a-chinese-invasion-imminent/ Grid runs an analysis of CCP motivations and methods for taking over Taiwan. While an all-out invasion is now definitely on the table, a perhaps more likely option for China is a campaogn of Coersion enforced by impacting Taiwan’s trade through a blockade. As Taiwan is highly dependent on maritime commerce, the CCP considered…
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