ironface said:
The chinese doctrine is fighting using your head
Whispering Death said:
I was inspired by the other China thread on the same page to ask this question but I felt it required a different thread because the other one is quite a varied and rambling one.
What is China's basic military strategy? We know that the U.S. places it's faith in air power while the Soviets believed in the power of armor and mechanized infantry. So what kind of doctrine would China use in a war? I was really surprised to learn about its lack of aircraft carriers of a strategic bomber. Surely their generals don't still believe in WW1/Korean War style human waves attacks.
right let me explain this better, alot people misunderstood this statement by leading them to think only the chinese uses brain.
the philosophy of war is to use brain rather than superior men quality. is like where a gd fighter to kill tenths of men while strategy could kill millions. thoughtout the ages u would no find much "shock troops" of the chinese but rather clever in strategy, strategy as in, not to face the enermy totally directly (but flanks or encirculement etc..), through diplomacy, spies etc...., these where very advance strategies compare with any other country thoughtout the ages (excluding recently of course), not as plain as just chraging head on with heavy knights, which u see in alot of in western battles.
in fact, read about the wars of china, then u would understand why the chinese always say they concentrate on strategy rather than men quality.
u could still see it today, the chinese tend to concentrate on their missile technology, there is a chinese saying the best way to win is not to not through wars and battles (concept of not losing men).
another example is in ancient china, where a battle where the oxs were tied with dry grass by their tail, light it with fire, then the the ox chraged towards the enermy lines. u should read chinese war history, u would find it very enjoyable if u like cunning tactics. also the mongols were also very cunning too and very sucessful (with the use of ambush, and to balance their weakness with the enermy, examples are lighting 5 touchs for each man at night, making the small mongol armies look huge), as u can see its empire once did stretch from korea to the middle of germany.
