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From: dave@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (David Becker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: People's Liberation Army
Summary: Chinese civil war?
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Date: 7 Jun 89 03:35:09 GMT
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From: dave@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (David Becker)


With the networks giddily(no news like blood and guts) passing on the rumor
that 27th army may be about to take on the 38th army, could someone describe
for this newsgroup the organization, manning and equipment of China's military?

McNiel/Lehrer interviewed a Navy advisor on China.  She descibed the
27th army as loyal to China's President (apparently due to the number
of relatives he put in top posts).  The President is a hard liner and
seems to have used this army for the weekend massacre.
The 38th is Beijing's normal garrison as far as I could understand and
loyal to a different top government figure.  The big rumor coming from
diplomats in the Embassy row area of town is that the 27th is digging
in in that area and the 38th may be coming.

>From the news reports this division of loyalty seems to be a long time
part of the PLA's structure.  Is this impression correct?

Now what readers of this group will really want to see is wild
speculation on what an urban battle between the two armies would be
like.

Just heard on Nightline: 27th is composed of 3 divisions of 7 or 8
	thousand men
-- 
David Becker 
and another bug bites, and another bug bites   another bug bites the dust
db@kolonel.MN.ORG