The US position isn't really different from Imperial Japan's in that their combat capability is heavily front-loaded while lacking the necessary backend for a true total war situation; basically from 2027 onwards the US forces will have a highly limited window of action before Chinese military-industrial capacity decisively grinds that down, and anything past 2030-35 would be even more demonstrably decisive. That's why I won't be surprised that from the moment the US starts a war against China the PLA will be able to take the fight all the way to the continental US.
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Xi already pass the age limit rules in cpc. Previously he changed the rules to accomodate his 3rd term. But what about now?
The rules were technically suspended, not abolished, but the intent from the get go was for 4 terms other conditions permitting. It’s not like the possibility of 4 terms has never been broached. Discussions of more than 2 terms started even before he formally ascended to the top position. The possibility of holding power for more than 2 terms wasn’t Xi’s design alone.
Either way it’s not like Xi is going anywhere. Once he’s taking a step back he’s still basically going to play the overseer role that Deng did. Xi isn’t disappearing from Chinese politics anytime soon.
Basically all officers on that level are logistic officers. What makes it different from the standard military office roles is the politics. There is a lot more education involved.
This is true of course, but it is also true that the senior officers likely have a level of thinking and comprehension of the modern way of war that is more limited than the more recent generations of officers, who are of course of lower rank and grade.
Then there is the culture of interpersonal relations (probably a bigger element that contributed to their dismissals) between the more senior officers and the more recent batch of officers who would have risen through the middle to upper ranks under the new system.
Taking all of those factors into account, it is balancing the totality of each "generation's" strengths and weaknesses for their respective jobs, but also the strengths and weaknesses of their norms and cultures of behaving, which likely determines their relative value to one another.
That isn't to say that all junior officers would be elevated to higher levels of command or the CMC without a care -- but rather that they are probably being deliberately selective in terms of trying to find successors with more modern experience, less problematic cultural behaviours, and with sufficient mindedness to operate at the more strategic and political levels of warfighting and military conduct.
I somewhat disagree with that statement. Xi should promote more personnel from the PLAN and PLAAF, removing the influence of the PLAGF, which is still very strong within the PLA's CMC.
Furthermore, all the purged men belonged to factions wielding enormous internal influence. Young officers who were promoted couldn't rise through the ranks without joining a faction. I believe that's what Xi is aiming for by leading the purges; they wanted to eliminate the factions within the PLA, and Zhang's downfall is a step towards that.
In my view, Xi wants to completely eliminate factionalism within the PLA. Therefore, the CMC, as a principle of managing the overall command, the theater commands to focus on combined military operations, and the branches of the armed forces to focus on force development, would require the elimination of factions within the PLA. In addition, there are several military personnel within the PLAGF and other branches who owe their positions exclusively to Zhang; it becomes clear that the purges will continue to remove this infection within the PLA.
There are several rumors on both Twitter and Telegram that some army groups are refusing to obey CMC orders.
This was posted 20 hours ago lol. Has anything happened since to confirm these rumors? Don’t fall for the psyop.
Complete BS.
Almost every day, someone captures footage of PLA convoys, as this is routine scheduling. These clowns, especially overseas dissidents, grab any random clip and claim it's as military coup.
You have to understand, these idiots can even spin the vehicle assembly for the 9·3 military parade into a military coup.
If I were them I’d worry more about getting detained and extradited to a third country by ICE than tweeting BS news on X.