Michael David Peck
U.S. Army M1A2 tank during exercise at National Training Center in 2019. Photo by Spc. Nathan Franco, DVIDS The last time that China and America fought a major ground battle was in the Korean War, almost 75 years ago.
But that Chinese army of poorly equipped peasants – who still came perilously close to ejecting U.S. forces from the Korean peninsula – are long gone. If U.S. troops were to fight the People’s Liberation Army of today, they would encounter a foe that is far more technologically and tactically sophisticated than in 1950. The PLA’s evolution can be seen in a scenario recently tested by U.S. Army experts: what would happen if a Chinese Heavy Combined Arms Brigade (HCAB) fought a U.S. Army Brigade Combat Team (BCT)? These are roughly equivalent units of about 5,000 soldiers each.
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