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The PLA is not a traditional nation-state military. It is a part, and the armed wing, of the CCP and controlled by the party, not by the state. The PLA's primary mission is the defense of the party and its interests. The PLA is the guarantor of the party's survival and rule, and the party prioritizes maintaining control and the loyalty of the ...
Formally, the PLA fell under the command of the PLO's Military Department, but in practice, none of the governments involved relinquished control of the brigades. From an early point, the PLA became especially influenced by Syria. [6] The PLA was originally organized into three brigades, named after historic battles: [7]
On May 19, the Central Military Commission began mobilizing PLA units in anticipation of the announcement of martial law order. In addition to the Beijing and Tianjin Garrisons, at least 30 divisions were sent to Beijing from five of the country's seven military regions. [citation needed] At least 14 of PLA's 24 army corps sent troops. Reliable ...
[9]: 148 More than 2.8 million PLA officers and soldiers worked as administrators for schools, factories, enterprises, and villages. [9]: 148 The PLA's role resulted in increased civilian-military integration and growth in the number of PLA soldiers to more than 6 million by the middle of the 1970s. [9]: 148
During the initial mobilisation of the units tasked with quelling the unrest, Xu Qinxian, commander of the 38th Group Army, refused to order his army to mobilise. [6] He explained that his refusal to mobilise was as a result of having received a verbal command to do so from the Central Military Commission, but not having received one in writing.
The PLA first became interested in modern special warfare in the mid-1980s when it was shifting from the "People's War" to "active defense." [12] After the reform, PLA special operations forces are organized under the combined corps level, as special operations brigades (Chinese: 特战旅; pinyin: Tèzhànlǚ). [23]
Special effort was made to discredit the PLA's role in the Cultural Revolution; the PLA's support for the left was described as incorrect because it caused factionalism within the military. While emphasizing the necessity and appropriateness of reforms to modernize the military, political education also sought to guarantee military support for ...
The incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China, known in Chinese historiography as the Peaceful Liberation of Xinjiang (Chinese: 新疆和平解放), was the takeover of Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the waning days of the Chinese Civil War. At the time, Xinjiang was ...