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Brief history of PLA’s approach to warfare and its future aspirations

People's Liberation Army (PLA) serves the communist party of China (CCP) and still acts as military wing of Party whose warfighting strategies, doctrines, theories and tactics have been consistently and continuously guided, shaped and controlled by party and its leadership specially Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping. Broad guiding principles of PLA’s approach to warfare includes ‘Sinicization of Marxism’ to include thoughts of Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, 3 war strategy, Xi Jinping Thoughts on Chinese style modernization. Note: Image representation is generated by Google Gemini and may deviate from true facts/figures. PLA started reforming its military strategy including tactics since the time of ‘The Long March’ (1934-35) and more precisely from 2nd Chinese civil war. Mao Zedong’s led communist forces (Red Army established in 1927 and renamed as PLA in 1947) proclaimed war against nationalists (Kumitong-KMT) to establish democratic coalition govern...