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xinhui · 06-23-2006, 03:13 AM

Col:

I am going to slap myself silly. OMG!

I think I got it, but not sure I can make myself clear, but here goes.

Remember all those folks keep asking why PLA had not equipped their MIB with latest and greatest, after thinking about this in-lights of recent notes, there might be an explanation: Logistic!

I got into an exchange with Bryan C regard rather PLA units carry their equipment with them when they are selected to be the blue army of that year. The answer is no, they don’t. They travel light to their training base to pick up the vis-mod equippment to conduct the training as the bad guys.

After the 1984 one million men de-mobilization, PLA conducted three additional rounds of downsizing (in sum, 900,000 men, including 3 armored divisions) where all those equipping went? I think they are being stored in the hundred of National Defense mobilization centers (another name for depot), each one of those centers is regiment in size and they are dotted China’s boarders. You train the way you fight so you want to pick up the same equipment at the depot as the one you trained in. In order to increase mobilization speed, PLA moves their troops light and give them their heavies at the boarder. This way, the reaction time is greatly increased. (Am I making any sense?) On the other hand, they give latest to 38/39 GA because they will bring their own heavy with them in the same logistic train. As for the dated equipment, fortification is the force multiplier, when you can flood every junctions with troops, you can afford to time for some to digging. If you can force Opforce limited options, you can channel them, hence “move the enemy” Only recently, I noted more and more MIB are equipped with up-to-date equipments such as WZ551 APC and Type 96 MBT. Change in doctrine? Or they just can’t get any miles out of those old junk?

Here is another view: To the west, most of the PLA troops are stationed in Lanzhou and Chengdu (200,000) near the Tibet-Qinghai highway, not in either Xinjing or Tibet. In time of war, Lanzhou MR boys can go either Tibet or Xinjing, Chengdu MR boys can go either Tibet and Vietnam. Beijing MR can go either Xinjing and near DPRK. And, Jianan MR’s role is national reserve. There is a reason why Indian military visited Lanzhou MR HQ.

06-23-2006, 03:13 AM	#15 (permalink)
xinhui Lei Feng Protege *Defense Professional* Join Date: 05-17-06 Posts: 656	Col: I am going to slap myself silly. OMG! I think I got it, but not sure I can make myself clear, but here goes. Remember all those folks keep asking why PLA had not equipped their MIB with latest and greatest, after thinking about this in-lights of recent notes, there might be an explanation: Logistic! I got into an exchange with Bryan C regard rather PLA units carry their equipment with them when they are selected to be the blue army of that year. The answer is no, they don’t. They travel light to their training base to pick up the vis-mod equippment to conduct the training as the bad guys. After the 1984 one million men de-mobilization, PLA conducted three additional rounds of downsizing (in sum, 900,000 men, including 3 armored divisions) where all those equipping went? I think they are being stored in the hundred of National Defense mobilization centers (another name for depot), each one of those centers is regiment in size and they are dotted China’s boarders. You train the way you fight so you want to pick up the same equipment at the depot as the one you trained in. In order to increase mobilization speed, PLA moves their troops light and give them their heavies at the boarder. This way, the reaction time is greatly increased. (Am I making any sense?) On the other hand, they give latest to 38/39 GA because they will bring their own heavy with them in the same logistic train. As for the dated equipment, fortification is the force multiplier, when you can flood every junctions with troops, you can afford to time for some to digging. If you can force Opforce limited options, you can channel them, hence “move the enemy” Only recently, I noted more and more MIB are equipped with up-to-date equipments such as WZ551 APC and Type 96 MBT. Change in doctrine? Or they just can’t get any miles out of those old junk? Here is another view: To the west, most of the PLA troops are stationed in Lanzhou and Chengdu (200,000) near the Tibet-Qinghai highway, not in either Xinjing or Tibet. In time of war, Lanzhou MR boys can go either Tibet or Xinjing, Chengdu MR boys can go either Tibet and Vietnam. Beijing MR can go either Xinjing and near DPRK. And, Jianan MR’s role is national reserve. There is a reason why Indian military visited Lanzhou MR HQ. Last edited by xinhui : 06-23-2006 at 13:36 PM.