Alot of good info, Andy. Sorry for this late reply but I read this last night but couldn't put two words together after spending the day with #1 Daughter. Speaking 5-year-old-nese for a day wrecks my English (actually any intelligeble conversation for the night).
The fact that a WZ may ecompassed more than one MR tells me that MR is heading the way of the dodo. It's an admin HQ more and more. General Staff may be assigned from central command which means more than one MR are now lacking qualified Staff.
I find "campaign corps" to be extremely interesting. It's now formalized; at least the concept is now formalized. There's meat to our theories now. What this does tell me is that when putting a WZC package together; there's now a set requirement and not just taking what's available.
It also fit into our understanding of the PLA's version of "Joint Force," ie, you have this much time in this area to do your job. You get the hell out when your time's up regardless if you finish the job or not.
I really do find this extremely revealling
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3. Synergize all the essential campaign factors such as strength, space, times, mean, etc. to form an integrated operation force.
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Translation: A well co-ordinated battle plan with no flexibility of deviation, ie Attack by Echelon. Still Communist Military style of thinking here.