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CHINA’S PLA | RAPID MODERNISATION AND MILITARY REFORMS

People’s Liberation Army (PLA) including the Air Force and Navy [PLAAF, PLAN] is undergoing rapid modernisation aimed at expansion of capabilities in multiple domains – land, aerospace, sea, undersea and cyber. President Xi Jinping who assumed the mantle of Chairman of the Central Military Commission in 2012 undertook the process of reforms. The aim of PLA military reforms has been identified as enhancing ability to conduct joint operations; improve its ability to fight short-duration, high-intensity regional conflicts at greater distances from the Chinese mainland; and strengthen the CCP’s control over the military. https://www.security-risks.com/securi... PLA Army is rapidly modernising, emphasising mobility across theaters, mechanisation of combat brigades, creation of high-mobility infantry and combined-arms battalions, and the delivery of advanced command, control, communication, computers, and intelligence (C4I) equipment that provides real-time data-sharing at the division and brigade level. The PLAN is the largest navy in Asia, with more than 300 surface ships, submarines, amphibious ships, and patrol craft. It is also an increasingly technologically advanced and flexible force. The PLAAF is the largest air force in Asia and the third largest in the world, with more than 2,700 total aircraft (not including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)) and 2,100 combat aircraft (including fighters, strategic bombers, tactical bombers, multi-mission tactical, and attack aircraft). The PLARF, renamed from the PLA Second Artillery Force (PLASAF) and formally established as a service in reforms announced in December 2015, trains, equips, and operates China’s land-based nuclear and conventional missiles. https://www.security-risks.com/securi... Chinese military writings describe informatisation to comprise of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) Modernisation, Electronic Warfare (EW) and cyber warfare capabilities as the core of military modernisation indicating developing asymmetric capabilities https://www.security-risks.com/securi... Of interest to India in the Western Theatre in which the basic structure of the Group Army is a manoeuvre force of six combined-arms brigades. Each group army thus has six combined arms manoeuvre brigades and six combat support brigades to include an artillery brigade, an air defense brigade, an army aviation (or air assault) brigade, a special operations forces (SOF) brigade, an engineer and chemical defense brigade, and a service support brigade. Importantly the emphasis on modernisation is on combat proficiency for war fighting. Thus training and exercises are carried out with a realistic perspective as blue on red forces. Modernisation has been supported by the PLA Defence Industry, which has developed a strong indigenous capability thus supporting the armed forces through regular inductions, and upgraded modernised versions of combat equipment over a period.