I think you're being rather disingenuous with this line of reasoning. What do you think is easier: telling someone what projects they need to work on, or telling them that they need to change the way they approach their work?
Having control means being able to get the organisation to do what the leadership wants it to do. Yet, you are saying that having control does not mean that the leadership can get the said organisation to reform? How does that work again?
As for civilian vs military, how about the fact that the military chain of command is far more rigid? And that military personnelle live separate from the civilian society and do nothing but learn to obey orders all day long?
That did not prevent Marshal Lin Biao(林彪), 1 of the most decorated PLA generals, from leading an attempted coup now did it?
Having a rigid chain of command is exactly what makes it easier to mount coups if a particular general wanted to.
And finally, a hypothetical scenario where the CCP leadership itself is split is hardly evidence that the CCP does not have control over the PLA. How did the Zhao Ziyang incident support your point again?
If there is a split in the CCP leadership (hypothetically, say the President and the Premier had a falling out), who would the PLA listen to since they "do nothing but learn to obey orders all day long"? Whose orders would they take (especially when the CMC itself is split)?
That's great, I'm sure you can find much more venomous articles published by right-wing US media on the issue of illegal aliens. That STILL doesn't mean the US, or HK, is being "swamped", as you claim.
Do these pregnant mainland mothers stay in HK after giving birth? Do they get medical treatment for free? If not, how are they "swamping" HK?
I take it you didn't read the articles I posted?
It is clearly stated in the articles that:
1. some bills go unpaid,
2. the kids are registered as HK citizens, stay in HK and go to school in HK,
3. when ~50% of newborns in HK are from PRC mothers.
How is that not being swamped?
Ummm... no. I see you also subscribe to the western line that the CCP has complete control over anything published in PRC. That's completely untrue, of course. The CCP censorship is reactive, often after materials are published. You probably think the PRC never publishes anything controversial.
No. I did not say that.
General publications and publications authored by senior PLA officers are not the same thing, yet you attempted to lump all these together. Writings by PLA officers are generally published by the PLA. And the PLA is quite strict about what gets published, particularly those events/facts it deems "inconvenient". That's already 1 level of censorship.
After publication, if it is deemed "unsuitable", it gets recalled (or banned if necessary, such as Zhao Ziyang's memoirs). That's another level of censorship. Yet, no such thing happened to "Unrestricted Warfare".
Remember Yuan Shikai and what happened to him? Yeah, that's what happens to warlords that want to create a government by force in China.
Yuan Shikai (袁世凯) died because of disease. He was not tried for war crimes.
And since we are talking about PLA generals, why not mention Peng Dehuai (彭德怀), a great hero of the Chinese Civil War who was disgraced, beaten up, tortured, exiled and died in ignominy? So much for serving the CCP eh?
Your second argument could easily be turned around, as CCP political officers are present in every echelon of PLA command. And you also assume, falsely, that just because someone is in the military, he/she must be a warmonger.
I did not say "that just because someone is in the military, he/she must be a warmonger." That's you putting words in my mouth.
As for political officers, they certainly didn't prevent Marshal Lin Biao from planning an attempted coup now did they?