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Operationalizing Intelligentized Warfare: Xi Replaces the Strategic Support Force with Three New “Arms”​

This reorganization reflects the Central Military Commission’s dissatisfaction with the Support Force’s performance. The service

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with fragmented command-and-control, difficulty integrating its disparate missions, and alleged corruption in its leadership. Rather than attempt reform, Xi dissolved the branch and redistributed its core functions to the newly created “arms,”

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them more directly within the military’s

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The new services were furnished with facilities, equipment and personnel from the former Support Force, along with select assets from the traditional “branches.” For example, at some of its bases, the Aerospace Force assumed control of

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previously operated by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force. Each new “arm” now operates with a tailored mission, greater autonomy, and increased authority to coordinate with local units—key attributes for enabling joint, cross-service operations.

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LCR34 said:

The only way i see orbital kinetic weapon being worthwhile is being used as global missile defense system akin to Golden dome/star wars, where satellite launches kinetic kill weapon at BM being launched, where the trajectory still rather predictable.

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People’s Daily spells out PLA’s mid-century goal, with the US as a benchmark​

Defence academic explains Xi Jinping’s ‘world-class military’ goal and why the PLA must dominate​

Fu said Xi had brought forward the goal of “basic modernisation of national defence and the military” from the middle of this century to 2035, while setting a new centennial milestone for 2027 and a higher strategic goal of “building a world-class military” by the mid-21st century.

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