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  2. List of countries by number of military and paramilitary ...

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    All of the 172 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers such as the two Koreas and Vietnam, include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel. Some countries, such as Italy and Japan, have only volunteers in their armed forces. Other countries, such as Mauritius ...

  3. People's Liberation Army - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China. It consists of four services — Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force —and four arms— Aerospace Force, Cyberspace Force, Information Support Force, and Joint Logistics Support Force.

  4. List of global manpower fit for military service - Wikipedia

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    The following list projects the total number of people around the globe that are eligible for military service. ... China: 314,459,083: 296,763,134

  5. List of divisions of the People's Liberation Army - Wikipedia

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    The People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China has had many divisions since it was officially established in 1949. However, a growing number of land and air combat divisions have been disbanded in favour of brigades, a process largely completed by the time the 2015 PLA reforms were implemented around 2017.

  6. Terracotta Army - Wikipedia

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    The mound where the tomb is located Plan of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and location of the Terracotta Army ().The central tomb itself has yet to be excavated. [4]The construction of the tomb was described by the historian Sima Qian (145–90 BCE) in the Records of the Grand Historian, the first of China's 24 dynastic histories, which was written a century after the mausoleum's completion.

  7. People's Liberation Army Ground Force - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The People's Liberation Army Ground Force[ a ] (PLAGF), or the PLA Army, [ 3 ] is the land-based service branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and also its largest and oldest branch. The PLAGF can trace its lineage from 1927 as the Chinese Red Army; however, it was not officially established until 1948.

  8. Conscription in China - Wikipedia

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    For example, the term "conscripts" (Chinese: 义务兵; pinyin: Yìwùbīng; lit. 'obligated soldier') refers to all enlisted military personnel regardless of their status as recruited, conscripted, or voluntarily joined. Similarly, the term "conscription" (Chinese: 征兵; pinyin: Zhēngbīng; lit. 'conscription') makes no distinction between ...

  9. History of the People's Liberation Army - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century (2012) excerpt and text search; Cole, Bernard D. The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century (2nd ed., 2010) Fisher, Richard. China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach (2010) excerpt and text search; Fravel, M. Taylor.