Minnie Chan
The state of war games, which started on Mon too examination reconnaissance, electronic communication, cybersecurity, air strikes too other battle skills, are aimed at increasing dry reason troops’ agreement of modern warfare, too fostering novel strategic dry reason forcefulness commanders later a sweeping PLA overhaul. More than 50 combat units involving near 2,100 officers are taking part at v grooming bases. They include airborne troops, especial forces too electronic warfare experts from dry reason forces from the Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern too Central dominance theatres, according to official social media accounts. The dry reason forcefulness said the state of war games started simultaneously at the Zhurihe Combined Tactics Training Base inward Inner Mongolia, too 4 military machine institutes inward Chongqing, Hefei too Hebei provinces too the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
The drill was meant to replicate combat weather condition too hence the troops would rest inward camps rather than barracks or dormitories, the dry reason forcefulness said via social media on Monday.
Military inspectors from the PLA’s anti-corruption watchdog, the military’s disciplinary commission, were sent to monitor the state of war games, with alive pictures too video footage beingness sent to relevant troops, it said.
The combat units were made upwardly almost alone of novel graduates too military machine officers from the surveillance troops, data safety force, cyberwarriors, especial fighting troops too a smasher squad from the army’s aviation unit, the dry reason forcefulness said on its WeChat account.
It said the v novel units were built with a destination of transforming the dry reason forcefulness from its traditional combat purpose into a modern dry reason forces to struggle with the navy too air force, every bit good every bit the newly established rocket forcefulness too strategic back upwardly unit of measurement dealing with electronic warfare.
These v house commands, representing China’s v strategic locations, were established yesteryear President Xi Jinping, who is chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission, inward Feb 2016 to supervene upon the army’s 7 military machine commands.
Xi besides decided to shed 300,000 members of the PLA, with the dry reason forcefulness the principal target, cutting the army’s size to 2 1000000 troops.
In his Communist Party congress study released inward October, Xi lay out an ambitious conception for the PLA, demanding that the military machine modernise yesteryear 2035 too locomote 1 of the strongest forces yesteryear 2050. He stressed that applied scientific discipline was at the nitty-gritty of combat strength too that the PLA needed to apply data applied scientific discipline too modern warfare strategies to advance.
Despite the emphasis, around leaders of the dry reason forcefulness failed to run across the novel requirements, according to The PLA Daily, the army’s mouthpiece.
“The scale of novel combat forces has been expanded too becomes to a greater extent than of import inward combat effectiveness later many traditional troops too outmoded weapons were dissolved with the military machine overhaul,” said a PLA commentary published on June 15.
“However, around commanders failed to empathize too study the existent purpose of novel combat forces, with around turning the novel units into superficial troops or fifty-fifty ‘master of none’ … too around fifty-fifty immersing inward traditional combat drills, letting the novel combat units locomote an isolated fighting force.”
Hong Kong-based military machine practiced Song Zhongping said the novel combat units were inward house final year, but at that spot was no serious grooming for them.
“Electronic warfare – similar cyberwarriors too dry reason forces aviation air smasher operations – are stregically of import inward modern combat, every bit many novel weapons besides postulate the back upwardly of electronic facilities,” Song said, adding that the PLA’s electronic warfare strength volition meliorate when its Beidou programme, which is besides known every bit Compass too tin compete with the United States’ GPS, is completed yesteryear 2020.
“The Beidou arrangement volition definitely ‘add wings’ to the PLA, but only when all service troops are able to operate the novel combat skills smoothly,” Song said. “That’s why electronic warfare has been a obligatory part of the PLA commanders’ assessment measure if they are going to larn a promotion.”
Professor He Qisong, a defence forcefulness policy specialist at Shanghai University of Political Science too Law, said the drills this calendar week indicated that the PLA was exploring a novel grooming model to gain commanders too soldiers for modern warfare.
“All the electronic warfare operations postulate a comprehensive too condom cybersecurity network. That’s why the strategic back upwardly forcefulness was established [in piece of cake 2015], too it has played a fundamental supporting purpose inward dissimilar service troops,” he said.
“As a traditional dry reason forcefulness without existent combat sense since the piece of cake 1970s, it actually takes fourth dimension for the dry reason forces to interruption inward modern warfare operations with too hence many newly established units.”
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