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The recorded military history of China extends from about 2200 BC to the present day. This history can be divided into the military history of China before 1912 , when a revolution overthrew the imperial state, and the period of the Republic of China Army and the People's Liberation Army .
The People's Liberation Army ( PLA) is the military of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 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.
109 BCE. Gojoseon–Han War. The Han dynasty defeats and conquers Gojoseon (in the northern Korean peninsula). 104 BCE. War of the Heavenly Horses. The Han dynasty defeats Alexandria Eschate. This is one of the only wars between Chinese and Greek cultures. 3000 prized horses were brought back to China for breeding.
Battle of Chamdo (or Qamdo; Chinese: 昌都战役) [b] was a military campaign by the People's Republic of China from 6 to 24 October 1950 to take the Chamdo Region from a de facto independent Tibetan state. The campaign resulted in the capture of Chamdo and the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China. [3] First Taiwan Strait ...
Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-15450-2. Military Power of the People’s Republic of China, 2007. Department of Defense: Annual Report. Zhu, Zhiqun. (editor). (2011). The People's Republic of China Today: Internal and External Challenges. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 981-4313-50-5
Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 (Princeton University Press, 2019) online reviews; Jencks, Harlan W. From Muskets to Missiles: Politics and Professionalism in the Chinese Army 1945-1981 Westview, 1982; Nelson, Harvey W. The Chinese Military System: An Organizational Study of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Boulder
Ranks of the PLA Air Force. v. t. e. The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, [ a] formerly the Second Artillery Corps, [ b] is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and controls China's arsenal of land-based ballistic, hypersonic, cruise ...
v. t. e. The recorded military history of China extends from about 2200 BC to the present day. Chinese pioneered the use of crossbows, advanced metallurgical standardization for arms and armor, early gunpowder weapons, and other advanced weapons, but also adopted nomadic cavalry [ 1] and Western military technology. [ 2]