Posted on 03/26/2017 12:16:34 PM PDT by C19fan
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is set to increase the size of its Marine Corps from about 20,000 to 100,000, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on March 13. According to unnamed PLA insiders and experts interviewed by SCMP, elements of the expanded Marine Corps would be stationed abroad, including Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and Gwadar in southwest Pakistan.
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There WILL be a war in the SC Sea.
Bannon and Trump both know it, are preparing for it.
This will be scary and interesting.
That’s “Maline Corps,” pilgrim.
Horde: Smallest unit of the PLA.
Meanwhile in America, Gunney can face a lawsuit from a recruit for using the F-word or making him/her crawl in mud. If WW2 were fought today, we’d have lost in less than a month. How far downhill weve come...
To invade Taiwan? But of course.
Wonder how many of them will be some type of “corpse-man”? At least Austrian won’t be a prerequisite.
Russia won't like this, as the Russians are very sensitive as to what is developing on their borders. -Tom
This time maybe we can arm Viet Nam to handle their age long enemy, China.
They can become allies of India, the Phillipines, Taiwan and S. Korea with Japan this time instead of against Japan as in WWII! Australia would probably join in a trade and defense alliance.
Yes. Right now the US military is roughly 1.4 million or less than one half of one percent of the population.
If China maintained a military force equal to the US in terms of a percentage of the population, it would be around 55 million people or equal to one sixth of the US population or easily five to one.
Full copper washed steel jacket!
Those rules are about to turn around. The butt-smooching faux officers’ corps under the regime of the Former Occupant of the White Hut, 2009-2017, are about to be “kicked upstairs”, to remain at meaningless positions, with no possibility of promotion from now to forever, until they get so disgusted they resign from the service. Meanwhile, other officers, chafing at the restrictions they have been laboring under for the past eight years, will be selected to redirect the mission of the military, restoring it to defending the United States, and ending the social experimentation.
Paid for with the stupidity that free traitors refer to as “free trade”.
Men outnumber women in China by 33 million.
That’s a very large number of expendable males aka cannon fodder.
33 million ,ore men? That’s a lotta potential jar heads.
“Russia won’t like this, as the Russians are very sensitive as to what is developing on their borders. -Tom”
Russia may not like it but don’t have the cash or the means to prevent it.
1) Trump should declare feminism illegal. 2) Ban them to their own island. 3) Take those 33 million excess Chinese males and put them on the same island. Everyone’s happy.
Here is a link to the Wikipedia on the PLAMC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Marine_Corps
The Wikipedia article gives the size of a PLAMC brigade as 6,000 Marines.
The Wikipedia article gives the composition of a PLAMC Brigade as:
Each Brigade comprises all or most of the following:
1 x Armoured Regiment (1 x Tank Bns and 2 x Armoured Rifle w/Type 05 Amphibious Assault Vehicle and Type 05 Amphibious Infantry Fight Vehicle),
2 x Marines Bns,
1 x Howitzer Bns w/PLZ-07 SP Howitzer
Missile Battalion (HJ-8 & HJ-73 ATGM’s and HN-5 SAM’s),
A mixed Engineer and Chemical Battalion;
Communications and Guard Battalion;
Field Maintenance Battalion
All that armor will be of little use on those tiny artificial islands the Chinese are building in the South China Sea. Heck, probably couldn’t even park all the rolling stock on some of them.
The article cited above says there will be 6 brigades created (up from the three listed in the Wikipedia article) 6 x 6K = 35K, not 100k. Even if it was 6 in addition to the 3 already established, that is only 53K.
Either way, that’s a lot of force structure unaccounted for.
Wonder what else is being planned?
As for putting them on those islands: cut them off and let them starve. But only after bombing its infrastructurew to pieces. Then they can starve and die of thirst.
Make that 36k for 6 brigades and 54k for 9.
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