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In the People's Republic of China, the special operations forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA SOF) are units that conduct direct action and reconnaissance, including in enemy rear areas, to prepare the advance of friendly forces; they also perform counter-terrorism operations, although that mission is formally assigned to People's Armed Police.
1955–1959: Public Security Corps, under the PLA; 1959–1963: People's Armed Police, under the joint leadership of the MPS and the PLA; 1963–1966: Chinese People's Public Security Force, under the joint leadership of the MPS and the PLA; 1966–1982: PLA Internal Guard, absorbed into the PLA in an integrated structure. In 1971 and 1973 ...
Prior to 2016, the PLA was governed by four general departments. These were abolished after the military reforms in 2016 by order of Chairman Xi Jinping, replaced with 15 departments that report directly to the CMC. [ 2 ]
The Information Support Force was established on 19 April 2024, together with the disestablishment of the Strategic Support Force. [3] [4]The new arm replaced the information support function of the previous Strategic Support Force, servicing the mission of coordinating the construction and application of network information systems within the People's Liberation Army, a critical part of multi ...
“[Hope] was in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for a little more than a week,” Kotb shared during a March 2023 episode of Today. “I’m so grateful she’s home. … “I’m so ...
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 ...
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]
The Palestine Liberation Army (PLA; Arabic: جيش التحرير الفلسطيني, romanized: Jaysh at-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnī) is ostensibly the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), set up at the 1964 Arab League summit held in Alexandria, Egypt, with the mission of fighting Israel.