![]() ![]() Its fundamental principles were based on the belief that people – not machines – still retained the ability to fight and win wars in the name of the Party, since as Mao put it “power grows out of the barrel of the gun”. In those years, the central strategic logic of the PLA, under the strategic guidance of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was the organization – at the grassroots level – and the implementation – at the national level – of the People’s War Doctrine a doctrine which was destined to shape Chinese military and strategic development until today. ![]() A mission that turned into a solely China-led revolution when Mao realized that his Soviet comrades had decided to pull out. The strategic logic of the time was the idea that China, along with the Soviet Union, should continue the communist revolution worldwide. ![]() A revolutionary setting that had lasted for the next thirty years, basically until Mao’s death in 1976. The first one comprises the so-called Mao era of “revolutionary doctrine,” Deng era of “modernization doctrine,” and the Jiang era of “high tech doctrine.” The second, inevitably built on the previous one, comprises the era of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping.įor what concerns the first phase, after the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) kept the strategic revolutionary logic that had characterized its early military phases under Mao since 1927: the year of its creation. To answer this question, we can split the last seventy-year Chinese military history into two phases. After seventy years and with a parade that is conceived to show China’s strength, a question seems to capture the general public: how has China – until not long ago a backward, rural country, with a mostly peasant population – changed and developed its army and associated security logic in the last seventy years, reaching the powerful military status we know today? New missiles, tanks, and army sections are supposed to be carried through Chang An Avenue, the main street cutting through Tiananmen Square. According to the worldwide media, on October 1 the Chinese government will surprise the world by showing new military devices during the parade. Everything is ready for the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. ![]()
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