chinese land tactics and training

What kind of tactics does the PLA use ?? Their training consist of what ??

rommel said:

What kind of tactics does the PLA use ?? Their training consist of what ??

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We had this topic on the old forum but unfortunately we did not arrive at any conclusions. Their basic tactics are basically your "strike weakness" tactics. We did arrive at the conclusion however, that their training emphasizes a lot on physical strength and endurance. They also teach basic Kung Fu to them to my knowledge. A few theoritical classes a few times a week, plus some physical and range training, and the rest is free time... I don't know much.

i dont know about front line PLA brigades, but the soldier trainig in second line PLA infantry unit including: rifle training, weapon maintenance, 5-kilometer running, physic body exercise, sentry for core official place and occasionally 20-kilometer rural area running at night, plus vegetable growing, pig feeding, channel digging, help school and universty student military training, helping local society and governing, and Mao-theory educating. for me, iam law student, so i have also law course studying. if i remeber back somgthing else, i will tell you later.

President said:

i dont know about front line PLA brigades, but the soldier trainig in second line PLA infantry unit including: rifle training, weapon maintenance, 5-kilometer running, physic body exercise, sentry for core official place and occasionally 20-kilometer rural area running at night, plus vegetable growing, pig feeding, channel digging, help school and universty student military training, helping local society and governing, and Mao-theory educating. if i remeber back somgthing else, i will tell you later.

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Wow, they sure sound like true soldiers of the people.

omg, i forget an important role for second line soldier that is fighting with local street hooligan, rogue, scamp when the flooding time, we also be sent to help civilian fight floods and provide disaster relief.

In my opinion, growing vegetables and training with university/high school students is not a very good form of training for soldiers. Those notions might appeal to the CCP leadership, but if China wants to field a professional army, they can't have their soldiers feeding pigs and tending Chinese cabbage! They need to focus on physical training, have more 20km runs, and spend more time on drilling. Also, the modern army benefits greatly from wargame type excercises. The more realistic the exercises, the greater the benefit. Also, combat simulations in machinese greatly improve the readiness of armored forces. China can not hope to win wars with soldiers that tend vegetables!

yeah, because chinese army are oversized too much, there are so much surplus manpower, so i think only front line units are specialised for fast response in area war, the second line units are been reserved for massive war and national war, so we have more spare time to do something else, for example, if a war on taiwan, dont even need second line units to join, first line units is sufficient to finish the job. but if a war invasion to chinese soil, then second line units may be the new relays of troops

I noticed you used the term we. So did you serve in a PLA category B unit then? Which division/group army were you from? Were you a commisioned officer? You also mentioned you studied law. Did you study law at a military academy?

sure i were studied in military acadmy, i was two-direction student, that means i can choose to stay serve inside army after gruadate or serve civilian society. i use 'we' there were so much second line troops surrond my college, we stay together everyday and night. but i cant exactly tell u which division/group/category i were in.

i was two-direction student, that means i can choose to stay serve inside army after gruadate or serve civilian society

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So which did you end up choosing? A life in the army or being a civilian?