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Justin, could you please make a video explaining how political commissars function in communist nations and how Russia's imitation of a Military Political Department impacts their performance in the war?
Great video. Fluent Chinese here, USAR/FFL served without distinction. Chinese arms procurement is driven by conflicting industrial and military policies 1) it's all export oriented 2) it's all dual use 3) it's all driven by party connections So you have a local party leader who has a factory with export potential and that export product can also be used for the military! welcome to monocular digital night vision lit and culture is talking in code, virtue signalling. they are not aggressive but are not cowards and even if they are man for man less effective they still outnumber the USA 3 or even 4 to one. I don't wish to be alarmist or to tip the hand too much. But if you see their arms procurement as about dual use and exports and kickbacks and espionage (to get tech) it makes much more sense And yeah, their military doctrine is less effective. I give them no pro tips.
Soviet influenecs are mostly in kit and toe though they still have the kommissar system so every lieutenant has a political officer. in an actual war they would degrade quickly to the maoist people's army model. they DO have the kit AND social organization to master in theory combined arms operations but thankfully to present that's only theoretical. they would NOT collapse in combat they would degrade gracelessly to small unit infantry artillery operations much like the Russians have THOUGH unlike the russians they would have force regeneration and institutional learning because they are not a nation of scheming dishonest drunk thieves. they are still over-estimating their military capacity and gearing up for a wara they have zero chance of winning, but that is because their political-warfare doctrine has the idea built right into it of losing a war to win the peace. their corruption is by the way only cronyism so don't expect let alone plan for pilfering: all the Chinse economic criminals know that they are even more subject to the whims of the party, ESPECIALLY if they themselves are party members (at which point factional infighting combinese with crony corruption for interesting combos). Japan, alone, could stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. But the Chinese don't understand that, which makes a potentiall dangerous situation, so our deterrence must be obvious and must be overwhelming. They should be glad I'm arguing against economic warfare. So yeah, military containment with economic engagement is what I argue for. They may not have figured out all their gear sucks. They need to figure that out. Great video.
@@majorborngusfluunduch8694 No, I actually started college 3 years ago, which is less stressful than playing ranked at 6+ for me, so yeah, quite a while lol
Its hard to find videos on Chinese military stuff that isnt either westerners saying Chinese tanks are made of cardboard, or the Chinese propaganda implying their soldiers are almost supernatural in their martial prowess
Thier military vehicles are known to have many problems and aren’t that compatible with wide range of munitions. It is why they are sending weapons, vehicles and parts to Russia so they can test their durability in Ukraine
"Sir, we intercepted a Chinese order, I think you should see this: "In shadows deep where wisdom dwells, The mind’s sharp blade, a tale it tells. With silent strength, the roots entwine, Victory blooms where thoughts align." "lieutenant, what the fuck is this?" "OwU"
after watching all your night vision videos, I've just started blind folding myself every day so that I can function and spiritually perceive my target through the teachings of the I'Ching
this is the least brainrot circlejerked video on the PLA i have ever seen on youtube, bravo discussing the one man showism problem, the systems confrontation doctrine, even the more decentralized nature of the PLA, bravo. hopefully this goes a ways towards steering people away from the "lol temu weapons human wave army!!!!" type of view
I really wanted to get into the "receiving the first blow" aspect of Chinese doctrine but it made the video way too long so I'll probably adapt that into a different topic
@@Justin_TaylorI don't think I've ever seen someone look into this topic in such detail. Do you have a list of the sources you've used so I can pour over them myself?
Yeah exactly, As much as I don't like the Chinese government, Americans more broadly need to understand that the chinese military still has rifles and missiles and drones and all this stuff. lol, it's not like every single person in china is some bumbling idiot with completely worthless equipment. American racism and jingoism is a problem and it blinds many people to the facts that we actually do have
@@jeffbenton6183 I’ll have to find it but the primary source on this video were excerpts from a book looking at their military culture. This video was just the tip of the iceberg there’s some really cool stuff. If you google “Chinese military culture” and find the link on /r/warcollege there will be some good sources.
You forgot the weirdest thing about the PLA it is *not* China’s military, it is the armed wing of the CCP. Each unit down to the company level has a dual command structure with both a military commander and a political officer (literally a Commissar), and the political officer usually has the final word in executing how orders are carried out. Down to the squad level each unit has a Party Committee made up of soldiers who are full CCP members.
Huh, it's interesting the differences and and similarities we have to that structure. We don't specifically have a structure like that. But.. we have an unofficial structure that is similar.
As another comment pointed out, their role isn't comparable to the way it was many decades ago. Taiwan also uses political commissars, and those don't hold the same kind of weight they used to either.
06:28 Kinda funny that Americans love Sun Tzu's art of war but In China proper they're like "Naw fam you gotta read the LOTR of Chinese history to get strategy"
to be clear - it is mandatory for all PLA officers to know Sun Tzu AOW and Maos Peoples War. But also that While in West its FM3.90 and White Sun War and that kinda thing
It's actually quite terrifying how little we, as a western public, know about the chinese state, politics and army despite their size. Especially considering that this ignorance could very well work in their favor.
Blame advertisers. The Western internet was sanitized so people would stop seeing all the nasty stuff in the world. Why spend money on fancy luxury items when other people are suffering under oppressive regimes that we take advantage of to keep our luxury goods cheap! Your made in china cotton goods are produced off slave labor. Merry Christmas! 😂
Good point. However, this could very much be a double-edged sword. If we as a public have no idea what China's capabilites are, then they certainly have no idea how much our government knows about them. And if we're going to use the context of how other asian militaries operates, then a conclusion should be drawn of an insane level of corruption at all levels.
China learned a lot from Russia's mistakes. Their command is a fair bit less centralized and I think they're more careful about how their logistic network goes. Plus they have a decent bit of new kit. But just like it happened with Russia, nobody will know the true extent of china's capabilities until some conflict happens. The whole weird north korea ish military exercises are a bit sketchy tho. Also taiwan being the first true test of the modern chinese army is a big, big ask since beach landings are real scary.
I worked quiet a bit in China, what is really crazy is their rate of improvement. I would guess that on first contact they would loose heavily to a western military but they quickly would test and improve. Different to us they also have much less aversion to loss of life and on the drone side they are much more advanced. A bit like they do economically, they set up 100 different autonomous companies and just look what works and which survives.
@@leonfa259 If it's a land war then I'll agree but the only conflict that could get the west into confrontation with China is Taiwan. D-day was done after misdirecting a whole two to three army and they only fought the skeleton crew, imagine how much worse it could get with a heavily fortified island nation
They probably won't need to do beach landings under fire. They can just blockade the island. Or, even more likely, keep bluffing about invading for the next 50 years, meanwhile convincing the younger generation in Taiwan to want to join the mainland out of their own volition.
@@leonfa259 How are they more advanced on drones when we are making fighter jet escorts? They are more in to using converted civilian-to-military drones and they do have nice ones but the only ones saying Chinese drones are better also skeptical of the US military to an unfair degree.
Absolutely. They moved from "quantity has a quality of its own" to "let's try to make the best tanks/planes/ships possible". The Type 05 amphibious armored vehicle is the US Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle project - but actually working, and at scale. They move twice as fast as the US amphibious vehicles on water. On top there are fire support variants which can't carry troops but have 105mm cannons, as opposed to the US 30mm. Yes, China doesn't start a fight every few years, they don't have the practical experience US/Russian troops have, but to present them as complete idiots with junk equipment is not helping anyone.
@@nikolatasev4948 I find it fascinating that alot of china's hardware were successful attempts at building something the US gave up in the prototype stage. Pershing 2 -> DF15, DF16, DF21D, DF26 ect. NLOS -> HJ10 and CM501 HTV2 -> DF17 OICW -> QTS11 XM2001 -> PLZ05 RAH66 -> Z19 Stryker MGS -> ZTL11 various laser platforms -> Silent Hunter
This isn't really a defence of using Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin as basis for military strategy, but it is a bit unfair to compare them to Magic Tree House, seeing as Romance and Water are two of the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature. I don't know enough about the Great American Novel(s) to come up with an equivalent. The military saying they're using these novels is probably for PR purposes, since the image of honourable warrior-poet tactician who wins by courage and guile (e.g. Zhuge Liang, who while a real person, is also basically mythologised into superhuman levels of military genius) is what they're trying to evoke.
It would be comparable to the "Red Badge of Courage" set during the American Civil War or "Gravity's Rainbow" set in WW2. Both are considered some of the greatest American novels.
It depends if they are using these books to set a tone for their military, rather than actually derive serious operational planning from them. Starship Troopers is on the reading list of many Western military academies, but nobody would claim it's used to plan an assault landing on a hot LZ.
There's a lot wrong with this video and a lot right. Most of this is due to as you mentioned hard to obtain info or just out of date. The PLA actually looks more like the US structure wise than any other country in practice and moving towards combined arms, China being the closest to the US than any other. A lot of its old combat doctrine is actually Japanese ironically, and that rank issue was a real problem. However, China reformed all of this in the 90s/2000s, a lot of information and video clips you show are not from the last 15 years. The reforms happened beginning of the Vietnam-Sino war, but that was just poorly documented by mass media as a PLA loss. PLA performance was considered ok, nothing good but nothing bad. The strategic and political win was quite evident, with China shattering USSR and countries trust in them and stopping Vietnam gaining any further regional power. Current training is nothing like what happened in the 90s, where PLA commanders looked good with these karata dances. The Iraq war shattered PLA confidence and the reforms were extreme. The idea of "rehearsing" is completely thrown out in the last decade. What you did get right is PLA philosophy is very different. It's heavily based on the concept of "friction", and achieving objectives, not kill counts. The PLA's primary focus is disrupting the enemy to the point they can't complete their mission which is very simliar to US thinking (objective focus). They just arrived at that answer from a different stand point. Commanders from all levels have more power, and there is a large focus on giving low level soldiers the ability to make deicsions. The literacy thing is not a good point, Mao had soldiers and all peasants etc attend learnings and the only way to do this was to read. The reason why soldiers aren't well educated (but they can all read) is that its not well looked on. There are cultural issues still with the army (considered a bad job, but tbh all countries have this issue). The biggest issue I see is transparency rather then competence right now for the PLA, in contrast the biggest issue with the US is lack of oversight. Similar but different.
"A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine." -Anonymous Soviet Warplanner
you can tell a lot about culture and capabilities of an army by the amount of actual shooting and tactical training they are doing, a lot of countries focus on theatrical bs for propagit videos/military parades but their soldiers shoot 2 mags in their entire conscript career
Parts of it are quite interesting if you think that it comes from a military tradition that fought in extremely asymmetrical conditions(chinese civil war, sino-japanese war to some extent, korean war, sino-vietnamese war). For instance the relatively large amount of power given to brigade commanders makes sense if you think about a military unit fighting some kind of guerrilla campaign, or the non-importance of territory control in favour of attrition.
@@ethanm8093 you think youve gotten away with giddily namedropping your favourite sub as a means to signal how smart you are, and then topping it off with a meaningless, cigar-wafting musing on "content these days" but i know the truth - you are a low functioning aspie.
Yeah that part in particular sounded less like doctrine and more like the ignorance of completely untested military. The thing is taking the hill DOES change things it lets you control ground have a more defensible position denies enemy movement without risking loss to yourself. I was explicitly taught that killing the enemy is NOT the goal of war. It's the means the tool. But goal is to achieve whatever youre fighting for conquest it's land counter insurgency it's pacification
That is a lot of ASSUMPTIONS extracted from a decision to field digital night vision because they are cheaper. 1) Having the cheaper digital NVG means troops can start training with an integrated networked system. Instead of abandoning projects with potential like the US did with theirs. 2) Chinese do absolutely train in highly contested environment, and the cynical selection of cherry picked videos of PLA doing front flips are now non-existent, especially since the 2016 reforms. 3) 20 years of the US fighting goatherders do not give them the necessary experience to fight in a war where hypersonic missiles are flying at their ships in the Western Pacific.
The US Navy is having missiles fired at them by the Houthis right this second. The PLAN hasn't intercepted a missile fire in anger... perhaps since the 70s depending on what Vietnam had available, or perhaps they have not once had an AShM fired at them. Furthermore the USN and Air Force have many thousands of aircraft sorties against live targets under their belts, the Chinese have zero. The Chinese only have their training, the Americans have both that and experience. My only concerns are political willpower in the US and bottlenecks in supply (rocket motor production, all semiconductors if Taiwan has Chinese submarines interdicting container ships). In 15 or 20 years add warship and submarine count to that list of concerns, but for a war tomorrow we would be alright, although anyone expecting a cakewalk with low casualties will be shocked by the low lifespans of sailors and aircrew on both sides.
@@shamasmacshamas7135 The US navy has no combat experience past procedural experience in things like firing missiles, and tracking targets. Which can be wholly replicated in a training environment. The US navy may be more profession at it, but that does not constitute a gap in combat experience, because the US have little relevant experience. If the US experience from the Middle East was so relevant, then Army Vision 2028, or the Major Marine Corps reforms won't be needed. But they are being enacted, precisely because the relevant experience is inadequate.
Just to add a layer to the topic of their use of poetry and idiomatic language: Chinese is a very figurative language. They aren’t reciting complex verses in the sense that we in English would see a lot of words on the page that each represent their own meaningful part of the sentence. It’s more that the idioms (成语）have almost become their own single morphological units over the amount of time and distance that they’ve been employed.
Literacy is a huge impact on an army. The Prussians first took advantage of this by creating modern NCOs. Because back then, only nobles could read and give out orders according to their commander's plan. But if said noble got exploded by Sergei, then everyone in that regiment would get stuck doing nothing in the battlefield. That creates gaps that the enemy can exploit and an opportunity for mass panic. But if your sergeant can pick up his commander's orders and somewhat achieve them while maintaining discipline, it can go just as planned. It also allowed the lower class to develop in a martial class in Prussia, because everyone had the ability to move up. It's pretty interesting if you look into it.
What year/period did they start doing this? I always knew about German/WW2 "mission planning" and small unit competence, but I never knew where it came from.
@ Frederick I crested the infrastructure for the Prussian army. His son, Frederick the Great used his system to match the great powers despite being 1/5th the size. Frederick I was really obsessed with it because Brandenburg had lost 1/3 to 1/5 of its population in the 30 yrs war. A good reason tbh.
@@Justin_Taylor Please do Part 2. With China in the news, it would be valuable to actually get some info about their military, as opposed to their new weapons, which is all everyone else seems to focus on.
Dongfeng mengshi are actually humvee, the Chinese bought license for them in the 90s 🤣 it crazy how much shit american sold or transfer to the Chinese from 1975-2000. From c130-s70 Blackhawk , training of their officer , humvee , join tank development,... Not only american but also french and British
An odd part for me is sorting out security and uprising suppression units. A lot of dictatorships have units with paramilitary capacity who serve as coup defence or revolt suppression.
Water Margin fricking slaps bro don't sleep on it, actually just a blast to read, especially all the funny social interactions in the beginning and window into a ming authors idea of what people in the song were like.
One thing that people kept saying is "Us military is more experienced" now that is entirely not true. first of all, experience from tradoc doesn't mean much of anything. because most of the people that had combat experiences have now got out after two or so rotations. and most of the fights in the past century for US are basically gurella fightings, against afghan villagers and vietcons. last time US and China had a fight, China was in the middle of a civil war, and PRC was just established, with outdated equipments and terrible cold weather protections and limited rations, still manage to push americans back to the 38th. don't underestimate China.
Digital data converts analog signal to discrete before processing and being converted back to continuous waveforms (light). In the case of light, analog can be processed directly without conversion. This tends to be harder to implement though. Source I am an electrical engineer.
As a service member I can tell you half of our crap doesn’t work, CCO’s break down all the time and you see soldiers ripping them apart and having to use iron sights. During my deployment in Syria, vehicle part replacements took months and they were very expensive, the army gives you a one million dollar equipment that breaks after a 2 weeks of use and you need to wait for 5 months for a replacement. We had to steal from the air force… I mean tactically acquired several key items from the Air Force.
It's hard for me to imagine a disorganised Chinese military. Basically all militaries across East, Southeast and South Asia are extremely professional especially given the high volume of border and maritime border disputes there. If they weren't, there would probably be an ongoing war over a border dispute at the moment.
I'm gonna be clear on the Friction thing. It is more complicated and more central to what hes saying They do have oporders, but theyre built with flexibility in mind. I'm going to paraphrase from ATP7-100.3 here. Their main goal, (IAW Sun Tzu) is to disturb and distrupt enemy command and control cycles at every level - Tactical through manuever, deception and Electronic Warfare; Operational through a mobile positional warfare, using multi domain warfare to seek small systems that disrupt the enemy OP; and strategic through undermining alliances, civillian morale ect. They view non-kinetic actions breaking enemy C2 as most important. The focus is on eliminating enemy cohesion through information warfare.
Strategically speaking: China's thousands of years of history are very rich in writings about politics and military, alliances and struggles, confrontations and battles, and even giving up without a fight; in other words: there is no lack of deep understanding of war in China. At the same time China has experienced very many wars in its history, on a scale as large as a 60% reduction in population. China understands that war means the loss of life and the annihilation of wealth. In terms of battles: in modern times, China has experienced the Korean War and the Sino-Vietnamese War, two wars close to modern times, and basically understands the great difference between hot weapons and the cold weapons of ancient times. Due to the huge loss in the Korean War, there is an assertion in the Chinese Internet environment: the Chinese army has: “insufficient firepower phobia”. Especially after China witnessed the “Gulf War” in 1990, China has invested a lot of energy in the construction of technological and informatization of the army. Tactically, thanks to the Chinese Communist Party's guerrilla roots during the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese military has a long tradition of “light infantry”, and even in the modern naval system the Chinese Navy has the 22 series of guerrilla-type ships that displace hundreds of tons of water and carry eight anti-ship missiles and reach speeds of up to 50 knots. Large warships such as the 055 type 052D type are contained in the air defense, anti-ship and other full-featured type or large or small modern dreadnoughts, both mixed regimental combat, but also independent travel record. From the individual: China's military, both teamwork, order obedience, but also to train people's individual ability, especially to understand the war (understand for whom to fight), to understand the battle (understand how to overcome), so the troops in the company level have a political officer: political commissar. In addition, there is a proverb in the Chinese army: advanced weapons are only tools, but what really wins the war is the man! Generally speaking, the Chinese army is modeled after the Soviet Union and the United States, taking into account the economic, industrial and demographic situation of China. China's leaders now believe that development is the most important thing, and that the only thing they really need to prepare for by force is the recovery of Taiwan. But this war will not happen until it is completely irreversible.
This was surprisingly informative, and it actually gave me insights I've been looking for over the past five or so years. Thank you for that. If you have any other videos on the strategic and tactical distinctions between various major military forces across the world, I'd love to see them
Interesting that Muricans still try to lecture other military forces jokingly even after the failure in Afghanistan. Did you have a plan back then and how did it work out for ya?
@@Joe._Biden It wasn't popular and lasted too long. Plus Biden's evacuation was an historic disaster, but to say we lost that war is nonsense. Plus, war is so much more complex than win/lose
@@Joe._Biden yeahhhhhhhhh we won the wars like Vietnam and Iraq yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Fortunately, the Soviet Union collapsed early, otherwise the Russians would have learned the USA optimistic war propaganda.😄
@@Joe._Bidenyeah i can tell because i still see american soldiers in Afghanistan… oh wait those are the taliban in abandoned us uniforms and equipment.
You know you're dealing with a real China expert when they pull out the social credit memes. The social credit system is totally real. Ask literally any Chinese person.
you are analyzing the propaganda footage that they use for "cool points" as their actual strategies. sorry dude but the information value in your videos is equal to the usual short 10sec tiktoks brainrot but in a 10minutes format, with some US bias peppered on top of it...
You don’t need to have a physical plane to copy it. Here you go friend: www.eurasiantimes.com/f-22-f-35-b-2-bombers-sensitive-data-leaked/?amp Arm yourself with knowledge
The chinese reseaech into low observable aircraft comes from the nighthawk shot down over belgrade. They bought the wreck from serbia. The J20 is an Su27 dressed up in nighthawk clothes basically. It has bo direct relation to the US's more recent stealth programs. Bht it is fumny, how the blatantly wrong propaganda mill keeps contradicting itself. A year ago all you could hear is that its a MiG1.44, when it doesnt even bore a superficial resemblence to that aircraft, and now its appearently a Raptor copy.
what do you exactly know about "chinese analog night vision" lol? do you doomscroll weibo posts, or bilibili? probably not considering you need an id card to register for those you are the analogue of a chinese person talking about how the abrams is outdated when they only watch self-cherrypicked videos published by a non-credible source on bilibili
You missed a really good example during the sloganneering (probably spelt that wrong) part. Evans Carlson of the marine Raiders was an observer who was attached to Maos army during the communist revolution and adopted the term "Gung ho" and their egalitarian structure into the marine Raiders.
Its called a DSP, you take a source (from a digital light sensor, a camera) then you run it through a DSP (digital signal processor), where by you amplify certain binary segments of the digital image and you can also apply other kernels (filters) to the image to get the image you so desire. This should actually give you a superior image than using an analog system. Given you are limited with analog systems as all you do is take the wave forms (don't convert them to binary via quantization), send them through a frequency filter (low pass, high pass, band pass and so on) and then use some sort of amplification method to increase the frequencies you want. The digital method basically lets you photoshop the image in real time, the analog one is limited to just amplification and signal filtering. So the digital method is limitless and the latency you complain about is only a matter of using the right hardware and not an inherit flaw, a slow DSP or microcontroller will cause higher latency for example. You also claim battery issues, I don't see how other than they used the wrong batteries or they used a bad DSP/CPU or something that drinks more energy than it should, this can also happen with analog, you can use cheap filters that waste more power and so on. There is nothing stopping a digital NVG system from having a higher res, lower latency, and a better image, other than simply cost and general supply constraints. (I am a final year electrical engineer so I'm sure I got some of that right)
the fact that their NODS are monocular probably also point to it's usage as night operation navigation and identification rather than actual general night vision, i mean this as they probably are trained to aim with the other eye in dark (which is not better than actual western night vision doctrine but atleast mitigate the problem with digital Night vision). could also be that they use it to just guide tracers onto target rather than aiming with the NODS
to be honest it's also pretty concerning that they are adopting this stop gap relatively quickly when considering the PLA only just started rolling out body armor and digital equipment a few years ago, like yea they are still pretty behind on this but will eventually catch up if they try hard enough
Digital nods are much more cheaper to mass equip . ever since china build up their massive air power and naval power the need of deploy huge number of super well equipped troops in war no longer a thing . meanwhile china still need to maintain huge number of troops to perpare , patrol border , trainning ...etc , and trainning ruin/break stuff alot > cheaper NVG is better . and the real good NVG better save for real combat situation . you can easily see top tier analog NVG include quad eyes one being used currently in many PRC counter terrorism special force , military police ...the one most likely have real chance of actual combat
"I wrote in a joke like every other word" this is exactly why i cannot watch these kinds of story telling youtubers that weave a tangled web of nonsense tangeants, wikipedia factoids and painfully unfunny jokes without taking a breath
Damn... that dude at the end is going to be cleaning that gun for a week.... he was firing his own smoke screen. You don't really need a plan when your army doctrine is literally Zerg the enemy.
I'm not a big fan of the larping, but I adore poetry or novelty in military. From "the die is cast", then "England expects every man to do his duty", "we shall fight on the beaches", "tiger tiger tiger", even "the world wonders" or "nuts". A little bit of inspirational material to charge once again unto the breach is quite... nice, for such terrible thing that is war.
Say what you want about china but the fact is everything we say is speculation. We know very little about the intricacies of that structure. I so I take all these “military channels” with a grain of heavy salt. We are almost ignorant to what china truly has and how it works.
A very good example to help people learn to identify facts and opinions🤣It's so ridiculous to see Americans are relying on an 'expert' who even strongly believes in the 'social credit' sh*t to teach them about China's military lol
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Thats not true at all: "In 2023, the sex ratio of the total population in China ranged at approximately 104.5 males to 100 females. The gender ratio in the United States attained a value of 97 males per 100 females In 2024, the sex ratio of the total population in the United Kingdom is 97.833 males per 100 females." Its basically the same. If you wanted to get a girl you can, especially a fit uniformed military man lol. You only hear about certain parents only selecting men because its unique and the government wants you to. Que the 1000th economist article about China collapsing lmao. Also there is no tech that can really ensure a man before, and now unlike other countries that banned screening for disabilities, they banned screening for gender. Now basically no one cares if a woman or a man gets born, both are encouraged.
@@oo-xb6gv It is true. It's obvious you're a Chinese bot, just pushing fake information to make China look better. The One Child policy was a disaster for China.
Three kingdom romance and water mash are more on brotherhood and loyalty rather than military strategy. I noticed the difference in China and the USA in the way of thinking, not only in the military, that Chinese try to divide a complex problem into smaller, simpler and more operable things while the US makes the original problem even more complicated, like you said, planning, planning on planning, eventually shift the focus of the original problem to process.
Comparing tanks and planes on an individual basis is stupid and useless, tactics, doctrine, logistics, cost, adaptability, training, recruitment, morale, willingness to take and inflict losses and on and on are not only much more important and influences how to evaluate a weapon system. The endless discussions about kit a the internet are funny but also futile. I get it, it’s tangible and looks like you can measure it and then you can argue 50 years about penetration values but it say nothing about the effectiveness and efficiency of an armed bureaucracy and how achievable the political goals are it’s given, how well it’s tailored to these goals and how willing a people is to accept the cost of achieving it.
I'm Japanese and I'm also interested in Chinese history. Basically, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Magin, and Sun Tzu's Art of War and Seven Military Classics were among the books read by Chinese army and rebels and guellira. Nurhaci, the founder of the Qing Dynasty, read these books, as did the peasant rebels. The regular and guerrilla warfare of Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Kuomintang were also strongly influenced by these. It was thanks to these factors that China was able to win the Sino-Japanese War. These books contain excellent strategies,which were useful in the wars of the time. I've also read a lot of US military manuals (FM-XX) and Soviet military books, and I can say with confidence that they're still useful today. They're also read by the Japanese military guys！
You need 144hz refresh rate, sub frame latency, and 1080p resolution. It is lossible, but that that point you can also afford a photoelectron amplifier stack, and make a proper analouge NVD, which is more relyable and runs out of battery much slower.
@egoalter1276 yes, but as more of these high-quality digital ones come out, they're lieable to become cheaper due to market competition. It's not likely to happen the same way with analog. I don't disagree as thins stand though.
The Chinese are expanding so fast and so suddenly that it wouldn't surprise me to see them introduce systems only to completely replace them a few years later. They are just in a very different place than the western world , they are experiencing a rate of rapid change we cant relate to because they last time it happened to us was the industrial revolution.
The country has already undergone an industrial urbanization. Its currently a hybrid between private companies, state capitalism and old state run companies. It has a growing divide between urban and rural China.
@@SusCalvinI wouldnt really say a growing divide. The divide was already there and it was huge but being rapidly mended. The Chinese governments whole big focus is on boosting rural areas and making them self sufficient but sending cadre and training them on new tech, telling them which stuff will give them the most profit if they grow or produce etc while gifting them to tools to do it. I think they called it the poverty elimination campaign or something
@@marcosburgos8415 I know the party is aware of it, but I'll have to see how well it works. They have done different rural vitalization drives. The rural areas are not growing poorer, they are growing richer at a slower rate. Overall, the party draws a lot of its legitimacy from how many are no longer in extreme poverty since the 80's and 90's.
The cultivation of a warrior spirit, the emphasis of war as an art form rather than a trade, has been greatly underestimated by the United States, and I think we will rediscover that sentiment in this century.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out for them. I used to be one of those “our military is the best in the world” guys up until I saw Ukraine’s (aka NATO’s) military in the current conflict get thrashed by Russia who has been using a lot of old tech to great effect against some of the newest and highly trained militaries in Europe. Watching Iran’s hypersonics go through Israeli’s “Iron Dome” at will was another one of these revelations. The impending conflict is an inevitability whether it’s next year, next decade or next century… it’s the final draft of the teams that has yet to be decided and if there is one thing the last world war has taught us is that all the technology that the world’s most advanced country Germany could muster wasn’t enough to overcome the sheer numbers that the USSR could raise or overcome the unforeseen logistics of Mother Nature’s unforgiving Russian winter. The unimaginable numbers that Russia, China, Iran & North Korea as well as their possible future allies paired with some of the cutting tech that they have been pioneering in hypersonic & drone technology are going to make for an apocalyptic event not to mention the Nuclear capability that they possess. We live in a multi polar world whether people want to admit that or not… this is NOT 1989 anymore where the US stands alone as the sole superpower. This advantage was squandered by the authors of the “clean break” memo that wasted that advantage to advance Israel’s dominance instead of the US. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail but I fear that the group that is in control seeks to destroy all of us just the same… we are all their enemies and perhaps that is something we all have in common that can unite us. Time will tell, may God give us the strength & the courage to fight this evil.
Russia's performance in Ukraine has been completely subpar for the level of power they purport themselves as. Ukraine should, by every metric, have been crushed in weeks. Russia demonstrated a consistent inability to manage supplies for prolonged operations, secure supply lines, coordinate combined arms offensives, handle mechanized assaults, and many other fundamentals of large scale conventional warfare. It would be like if a somewhat better trained and prepared Iraq was able to somehow bog down a third of the US military for multiple years on end because the US made put all their stock into a 100km long supply convoy and promptly got it stuck in the middle of nowhere for artillery to annihilate. Also, the idea that Russia is just using old tech is patently false: They have spent plenty of assets that fall under a "modern/near-peer" description in Ukraine, they are now using old assets to make up for attrition without further atrophying the "high" part of their high/low structure. Iron Dome was only ever meant to intercept large volleys of low velocity, often homemade, artillery. Not hypersonics. Interceptors of hypersonics are completely different systems from Iron Dome. The US still maintains utter dominance in naval warfare, logistics, electronic warfare, aerial warfare, signal intelligence, combined arms warfare, and command & control over Russia. It has similar dominance - if to a smaller but still considerable degree - over China in the same regards. This is also ignoring the capabilities of its allies alongside it.
@@bluntcabbage6042 this is propaganda cope. You would do yourself and everyone else a favor to realize this. The Yemeni military is sinking ships at will and the US can do NOTHING about it to the extent that they have had to admit this much to their embarrassment. As for Naval Superiority, Hypersonic Weapons can sink any ship at any time. This was not the case just a few years ago, ships were well defended albeit not invincible but now the US’s legendary Aircraft Carriers are mere sitting ducks. Ukraine aka NATO built up its military for a decade while lying to Russia about their intentions. One of the largest and most technically advanced militaries in Europe is practically EXTINCT. Everyone is dead and they are rounding up teenagers and old men because no one is left. Even with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS that Zelenskyy was busy stealing to buy houses in Florida (Look it up) for when he eventually flees his country like a typical jew. Even the entire military industrial manufacturing of the western world can’t begin to build enough munitions. The US and Europes stockpiles have been dangerously depleted with no way of replenishing them any time soon. Where as the Russian military is now BIGGER than it was before the war due to rigorous recruitment and their military industry has been able to produce more than ALL of NATO combined. You have completely lost the picture thinking that the 4 of the world’s largest militaries Nuclear Armed and with tech the US DOES NOT POSSESS as well as robust industrial capabilities that left the US’s shores long ago aren’t a world ending threat. Stop listening to US press releases and due actual research. The US said their was WMD’s so they could carry out the “Clean Break Memo” for the past TWO DECADES, dude wake up… I get it, it feels warm & cozy to feel morally superior and militarily invincible but this isn’t your imagination, this is cold hard reality where all of the virtue signaling and propaganda our government spins is useless well I guess not totally useless since you buy it hook line and sinker, let me guess “there is no genocide is Gaza & Israel is our greatest ally” how’s that working out for you… dude, I’m not even mad at you brother, your view is what you have been told to have your entire life but at some point we have to break with the programming. They hinted at blowing up Nordstream, then they did, then they denied it. They told US they had “Surprises” for Russian then told Americans in Russia to “stay away from concert halls” in press conferences and then denied having any involvement when the terrorist fled to Ukraine and got caught even though we KNOW that NATO is running the show their and nothing gets done without their approval. We aren’t the “good” guys, just some guys that must choose to be good or bad.
@@CantonSecurity There is no legitimate evidence that Yemeni militia groups are sinking US Navy ships "at will". This is pure and quite obvious propaganda from groups willing to use Arma 3 footage as "proof" of their exploits. You are also regurgitating talking points straight from hypersonic missile advertisements. They are not an end-all-be-all for naval warfare, they are severely limited in many ways. The USN is nowhere near as vulnerable to them as you claim them to be. Russia's military is getting larger because they've entered a war economy and have partially mobilized. The US and NATO have not adopted a war economy and have not mobilized. This is a fundamental difference - the US and NATO are in a peacetime posture where their military numbers reflect as such. Had the US entered its own war economy and mobilization, its military would also greatly increase in size. This is a moot point. Pray tell, what tech does the US' competitors have that it does not? The US has had hypersonic missile technology for years - it is and was a matter of doctrine to not pursue them as doggedly as China or Russia. I harbor no ill will towards you but 90% of your reply looks like schizophrenic propaganda. You unironically parroted talking points from Russian and Chinese shills that get paid to run propaganda on Twitter.
I can't remember if your other videos have background music, but boy oh boy did i find this background music annoying. Good analysis on the Chinese culture though.
@@Justin_Taylor I will answer for him. The music is fine just needs to be turned down maybe 1-2db if that. It could be the song though that got loud at parts. Nothing crazy and you could still hear everything you said.
This actually makes me nervous if they're leaning into the chaotic shitshow reality of war. We think they're overly centralized top down clowns. But they're not. "If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions."
@@dustyarain Maybe because the ones they made for the US and other western countries are sabotaged when we war China, scary to think they can possible make them explode in combat.
@@raymoncism just don't trust any xyz youtuber... they make state of the art night/thermal for civilians and we don't know what they have for military...
@@1.4billion65 They did fight a war abroad (enough of We never send troops abroad like USA Bullshit). But considering how they rather not talk about it like the Korean War, you can see it wasn't glorious.
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Justin, could you please make a video explaining how political commissars function in communist nations and how Russia's imitation of a Military Political Department impacts their performance in the war?
Great video. Fluent Chinese here, USAR/FFL served without distinction.
Chinese arms procurement is driven by conflicting industrial and military policies
1) it's all export oriented
2) it's all dual use
3) it's all driven by party connections
So you have a local party leader who has a factory with export potential and that export product can also be used for the military! welcome to monocular digital night vision
lit and culture is talking in code, virtue signalling.
they are not aggressive but are not cowards and even if they are man for man less effective they still outnumber the USA 3 or even 4 to one.
I don't wish to be alarmist or to tip the hand too much. But if you see their arms procurement as about dual use and exports and kickbacks and espionage (to get tech) it makes much more sense
And yeah, their military doctrine is less effective. I give them no pro tips.
Soviet influenecs are mostly in kit and toe though they still have the kommissar system so every lieutenant has a political officer. in an actual war they would degrade quickly to the maoist people's army model. they DO have the kit AND social organization to master in theory combined arms operations but thankfully to present that's only theoretical. they would NOT collapse in combat they would degrade gracelessly to small unit infantry artillery operations much like the Russians have THOUGH unlike the russians they would have force regeneration and institutional learning because they are not a nation of scheming dishonest drunk thieves. they are still over-estimating their military capacity and gearing up for a wara they have zero chance of winning, but that is because their political-warfare doctrine has the idea built right into it of losing a war to win the peace. their corruption is by the way only cronyism so don't expect let alone plan for pilfering: all the Chinse economic criminals know that they are even more subject to the whims of the party, ESPECIALLY if they themselves are party members (at which point factional infighting combinese with crony corruption for interesting combos).
Japan, alone, could stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. But the Chinese don't understand that, which makes a potentiall dangerous situation, so our deterrence must be obvious and must be overwhelming. They should be glad I'm arguing against economic warfare. So yeah, military containment with economic engagement is what I argue for.
They may not have figured out all their gear sucks. They need to figure that out.
Great video.
❤
Fortunately, not even China is immune to the most reliable source of secret military info: angry gamers in War Thunder forum
We just need to beg Gaijin to put China as a playable country in WT, and all that sweet info comes right in
@@projectdeveloper9311 boy have I got news for you
@@projectdeveloper9311My goodness you have not been on the game in a very long time have you? Honestly good for you.
@@majorborngusfluunduch8694 No, I actually started college 3 years ago, which is less stressful than playing ranked at 6+ for me, so yeah, quite a while lol
@@projectdeveloper9311 Some PLA mad lad has already leaked classified info on tank ammunition. So this plan is already bearing fruit
Its hard to find videos on Chinese military stuff that isnt either westerners saying Chinese tanks are made of cardboard, or the Chinese propaganda implying their soldiers are almost supernatural in their martial prowess
It's good to see! As an American it's really hard to get a read on China and I'm always trying to challenge my bias.
Gotta go digging and read between the lines. Rip liveleak.
Thier military vehicles are known to have many problems and aren’t that compatible with wide range of munitions. It is why they are sending weapons, vehicles and parts to Russia so they can test their durability in Ukraine
Eurasian Naval insights is ok. Definitely Chinese biased, but mostly solid and factual info. A mature commentator.
@@burnttoaster6313Why are you just making things up?
"Sir, we intercepted a Chinese order, I think you should see this:
"In shadows deep where wisdom dwells,
The mind’s sharp blade, a tale it tells.
With silent strength, the roots entwine,
Victory blooms where thoughts align."
"lieutenant, what the fuck is this?"
"OwU"
AW SHITR I THINK IT LOOKED AT ME!
Sun Zhu say
"be a rover , and a fighter"
hahaha, poetry has a pattern, and orders written in a poetry style can be decoded easily if you know the pattern
That's why we have 35M in army bud.
@@無題6376 35 Million corpses to march over while singing the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme.
Digital night vision isn't night vision in the traditional sense, or any other sense.
-5000 social credit ⬇️
@@Justin_TaylorNo wait I'm sorry please
after watching all your night vision videos, I've just started blind folding myself every day so that I can function and spiritually perceive my target through the teachings of the I'Ching
The night vision master himself appears
It is however very cheap and good for static observation, which is better than not being able to see at all.
Chinese Night Vision vs 9 Million American Fireflies
You would not believe your eyes if ten millio-
@@mrautism. You should have put it through Google translate
@@shaetteb1272I don't get it
@@shaetteb1272 Huh?
@@mrautism. so it would have been in Chinese. 你不會相信自己的眼睛，如果有一千萬隻螢火蟲...
this is the least brainrot circlejerked video on the PLA i have ever seen on youtube, bravo
discussing the one man showism problem, the systems confrontation doctrine, even the more decentralized nature of the PLA, bravo.
hopefully this goes a ways towards steering people away from the "lol temu weapons human wave army!!!!" type of view
I really wanted to get into the "receiving the first blow" aspect of Chinese doctrine but it made the video way too long so I'll probably adapt that into a different topic
@@Justin_TaylorI don't think I've ever seen someone look into this topic in such detail. Do you have a list of the sources you've used so I can pour over them myself?
Yeah exactly, As much as I don't like the Chinese government, Americans more broadly need to understand that the chinese military still has rifles and missiles and drones and all this stuff. lol, it's not like every single person in china is some bumbling idiot with completely worthless equipment. American racism and jingoism is a problem and it blinds many people to the facts that we actually do have
@@jeffbenton6183 I’ll have to find it but the primary source on this video were excerpts from a book looking at their military culture. This video was just the tip of the iceberg there’s some really cool stuff. If you google “Chinese military culture” and find the link on /r/warcollege there will be some good sources.
@@Justin_Taylor Please make a video on that, it's a very key part of PLA doctrine.
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Why?
@@Buconoir asking questions -40 credits
@@bingus_the_dongustalking about questions -500 social credits
The so called the social credits bullshit is the best proven for stupidity and ignorance of the West and its uneducated people😂
@@thebasedspectre3048 Glory to the comrades posting these comments! +500 social credits
You forgot the weirdest thing about the PLA it is *not* China’s military, it is the armed wing of the CCP. Each unit down to the company level has a dual command structure with both a military commander and a political officer (literally a Commissar), and the political officer usually has the final word in executing how orders are carried out. Down to the squad level each unit has a Party Committee made up of soldiers who are full CCP members.
Huh, it's interesting the differences and and similarities we have to that structure.
We don't specifically have a structure like that.
But.. we have an unofficial structure that is similar.
That isn't really the case, the commissar of the PLA is much more like a chaplain.
As another comment pointed out, their role isn't comparable to the way it was many decades ago. Taiwan also uses political commissars, and those don't hold the same kind of weight they used to either.
For history context, Deng xiao ping was a military commissar during the war years
@@callusklaus2413 we do? where are the unofficial republican and democrat leaders in our ranks?
06:28 Kinda funny that Americans love Sun Tzu's art of war but In China proper they're like "Naw fam you gotta read the LOTR of Chinese history to get strategy"
to be clear - it is mandatory for all PLA officers to know Sun Tzu AOW and Maos Peoples War. But also that
While in West its FM3.90 and White Sun War and that kinda thing
My guy, there is literally a USMC recomended reading list and Starship Troopers used to be on it
@@BlackMetalVengeance I'm doing my part!
The book is almost entirely different to the movie with the same characters and a few of the plot points@@economicallyunviablekitten
@ yeah, that’s pretty common knowledge. I just love unnecessarily calling out that line for my own enjoyment.
8:00 "Plans are useless but planning is everything" - I forgot
Gen. Eisenhower
It's a great line, I was honestly thinking the same thing when I got to the same part of the video.
'No plan survives contact with the enemy. That is why we improvise.'
"Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth."
@@LeeviHokka126 "The enemy can't figure out what we're doing if we don't know what we're doing either."
It's actually quite terrifying how little we, as a western public, know about the chinese state, politics and army despite their size. Especially considering that this ignorance could very well work in their favor.
Blame advertisers. The Western internet was sanitized so people would stop seeing all the nasty stuff in the world. Why spend money on fancy luxury items when other people are suffering under oppressive regimes that we take advantage of to keep our luxury goods cheap!
Your made in china cotton goods are produced off slave labor. Merry Christmas! 😂
Good point. However, this could very much be a double-edged sword. If we as a public have no idea what China's capabilites are, then they certainly have no idea how much our government knows about them. And if we're going to use the context of how other asian militaries operates, then a conclusion should be drawn of an insane level of corruption at all levels.
They know little of the west aswell, most people only know the community around them
@@BeansWorld-v3ethey have spies
@@BeansWorld-v3eThey probably know more about US than we do about them, thanks to traitors within our military, defense industries, and other means.
China learned a lot from Russia's mistakes. Their command is a fair bit less centralized and I think they're more careful about how their logistic network goes. Plus they have a decent bit of new kit.
But just like it happened with Russia, nobody will know the true extent of china's capabilities until some conflict happens.
The whole weird north korea ish military exercises are a bit sketchy tho. Also taiwan being the first true test of the modern chinese army is a big, big ask since beach landings are real scary.
I worked quiet a bit in China, what is really crazy is their rate of improvement. I would guess that on first contact they would loose heavily to a western military but they quickly would test and improve.
Different to us they also have much less aversion to loss of life and on the drone side they are much more advanced.
A bit like they do economically, they set up 100 different autonomous companies and just look what works and which survives.
@@leonfa259 If it's a land war then I'll agree but the only conflict that could get the west into confrontation with China is Taiwan. D-day was done after misdirecting a whole two to three army and they only fought the skeleton crew, imagine how much worse it could get with a heavily fortified island nation
Literally Taiwan is China. So we got China vs China war aka Second Chinese Civil War.
They probably won't need to do beach landings under fire. They can just blockade the island. Or, even more likely, keep bluffing about invading for the next 50 years, meanwhile convincing the younger generation in Taiwan to want to join the mainland out of their own volition.
@@leonfa259 How are they more advanced on drones when we are making fighter jet escorts? They are more in to using converted civilian-to-military drones and they do have nice ones but the only ones saying Chinese drones are better also skeptical of the US military to an unfair degree.
Post WW1 Germany was called the Weimar Republic (1918-1933).
Don't say that name, TH-cam will demonetise you
@@pedrocesarsakihara1853 no, they wont. the weimar republic and nazi germany were two diffrent governments.
@@playyourturntodieatvgperson i know, it's a joke
@@pedrocesarsakihara1853 ah, apologies
Officially/legally, the nation was called Deutsches Reich from 1871 to 1945. Weimar Republic is just a common shorthand.
It's very incorrect to say that foreign influence isn't in the PLA, the U.S military in the gulf war had a huge influence on the modern PLA.
Absolutely. They moved from "quantity has a quality of its own" to "let's try to make the best tanks/planes/ships possible".
The Type 05 amphibious armored vehicle is the US Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle project - but actually working, and at scale. They move twice as fast as the US amphibious vehicles on water. On top there are fire support variants which can't carry troops but have 105mm cannons, as opposed to the US 30mm.
Yes, China doesn't start a fight every few years, they don't have the practical experience US/Russian troops have, but to present them as complete idiots with junk equipment is not helping anyone.
@@nikolatasev4948 I find it fascinating that alot of china's hardware were successful attempts at building something the US gave up in the prototype stage.
Pershing 2 -> DF15, DF16, DF21D, DF26 ect.
NLOS -> HJ10 and CM501
HTV2 -> DF17
OICW -> QTS11
XM2001 -> PLZ05
RAH66 -> Z19
Stryker MGS -> ZTL11
various laser platforms -> Silent Hunter
@@hughmungus2760 thats because the US realized that those platforms weren't viable for their needs/wants or couldn't fufill the result needed.
This isn't really a defence of using Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin as basis for military strategy, but it is a bit unfair to compare them to Magic Tree House, seeing as Romance and Water are two of the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature. I don't know enough about the Great American Novel(s) to come up with an equivalent. The military saying they're using these novels is probably for PR purposes, since the image of honourable warrior-poet tactician who wins by courage and guile (e.g. Zhuge Liang, who while a real person, is also basically mythologised into superhuman levels of military genius) is what they're trying to evoke.
It's probably more equivalent to reading classical texts like Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War or Vegetius' De re Militari.
It would be comparable to the "Red Badge of Courage" set during the American Civil War or "Gravity's Rainbow" set in WW2. Both are considered some of the greatest American novels.
It depends if they are using these books to set a tone for their military, rather than actually derive serious operational planning from them. Starship Troopers is on the reading list of many Western military academies, but nobody would claim it's used to plan an assault landing on a hot LZ.
There's a lot wrong with this video and a lot right. Most of this is due to as you mentioned hard to obtain info or just out of date. The PLA actually looks more like the US structure wise than any other country in practice and moving towards combined arms, China being the closest to the US than any other. A lot of its old combat doctrine is actually Japanese ironically, and that rank issue was a real problem. However, China reformed all of this in the 90s/2000s, a lot of information and video clips you show are not from the last 15 years. The reforms happened beginning of the Vietnam-Sino war, but that was just poorly documented by mass media as a PLA loss. PLA performance was considered ok, nothing good but nothing bad. The strategic and political win was quite evident, with China shattering USSR and countries trust in them and stopping Vietnam gaining any further regional power.
Current training is nothing like what happened in the 90s, where PLA commanders looked good with these karata dances. The Iraq war shattered PLA confidence and the reforms were extreme. The idea of "rehearsing" is completely thrown out in the last decade. What you did get right is PLA philosophy is very different. It's heavily based on the concept of "friction", and achieving objectives, not kill counts. The PLA's primary focus is disrupting the enemy to the point they can't complete their mission which is very simliar to US thinking (objective focus). They just arrived at that answer from a different stand point. Commanders from all levels have more power, and there is a large focus on giving low level soldiers the ability to make deicsions.
The literacy thing is not a good point, Mao had soldiers and all peasants etc attend learnings and the only way to do this was to read. The reason why soldiers aren't well educated (but they can all read) is that its not well looked on. There are cultural issues still with the army (considered a bad job, but tbh all countries have this issue). The biggest issue I see is transparency rather then competence right now for the PLA, in contrast the biggest issue with the US is lack of oversight. Similar but different.
Sadly so many people who talk shit about the PLA really have no actual idea what it is. I don't like the PRC but I don't want to lie about them.
Thank you!
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I have acquired the night vision you show. In fact, I've got the entire kit from boots to helmet to body armor. I'll make a video on it.
I wouldn’t believe anyone who left this comment unless it was you
Omg Oxide cameo
Oh shit, the sir is here.
"A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."
-Anonymous Soviet Warplanner
That was a nazi. Guderian probably.
If we don’t know what we’re doing, the enemy certainly can’t know!
@ exactly
you can tell a lot about culture and capabilities of an army by the amount of actual shooting and tactical training they are doing, a lot of countries focus on theatrical bs for propagit videos/military parades but their soldiers shoot 2 mags in their entire conscript career
"And maybe you live in one of THESE states." Dawg I think you've stumbled upon the greatest marketing angle possible for a VPN.
lol didnt even notice that part
Parts of it are quite interesting if you think that it comes from a military tradition that fought in extremely asymmetrical conditions(chinese civil war, sino-japanese war to some extent, korean war, sino-vietnamese war). For instance the relatively large amount of power given to brigade commanders makes sense if you think about a military unit fighting some kind of guerrilla campaign, or the non-importance of territory control in favour of attrition.
The entire video might as well be a recap of a single 2 year old reddit post that gets pulled up when you search anything related to the topic
that's what youtube is these days. like 99% of new videos are just a cliffnotes on some recent topic. it's like information junk food
@@JewTube001fr
Literally a r/warcollege audiobook
This entire channel is just rehashing shitposts from NCD, hilarious what passes for content these days
@@ethanm8093 you think youve gotten away with giddily namedropping your favourite sub as a means to signal how smart you are, and then topping it off with a meaningless, cigar-wafting musing on "content these days" but i know the truth - you are a low functioning aspie.
I actually watched your sponsorship and I do in fact live in one of "those" states
What's the deal with those states?
@@Nickrioblanco1 they require age verification for "certain" websites
chinese humvee are not an knock off per say bc they just payed AM General and bought the design
I believe their modifications made the vehicle worse such as worse suspension.
@@orlock20 i don't know a lot about those but I do know the first gen are armored against 7.62, so worse suspension can simply be weight.
Cappy's pupil is learning well from his skills.
That whole "who cares about geography compared to inflicting casualties" mindset reminds me of the American strategy in Vietnam...
Yeah that part in particular sounded less like doctrine and more like the ignorance of completely untested military.
The thing is taking the hill DOES change things it lets you control ground have a more defensible position denies enemy movement without risking loss to yourself.
I was explicitly taught that killing the enemy is NOT the goal of war. It's the means the tool. But goal is to achieve whatever youre fighting for conquest it's land counter insurgency it's pacification
That is a lot of ASSUMPTIONS extracted from a decision to field digital night vision because they are cheaper.
1) Having the cheaper digital NVG means troops can start training with an integrated networked system. Instead of abandoning projects with potential like the US did with theirs.
2) Chinese do absolutely train in highly contested environment, and the cynical selection of cherry picked videos of PLA doing front flips are now non-existent, especially since the 2016 reforms.
3) 20 years of the US fighting goatherders do not give them the necessary experience to fight in a war where hypersonic missiles are flying at their ships in the Western Pacific.
The US Navy is having missiles fired at them by the Houthis right this second. The PLAN hasn't intercepted a missile fire in anger... perhaps since the 70s depending on what Vietnam had available, or perhaps they have not once had an AShM fired at them.
Furthermore the USN and Air Force have many thousands of aircraft sorties against live targets under their belts, the Chinese have zero. The Chinese only have their training, the Americans have both that and experience. My only concerns are political willpower in the US and bottlenecks in supply (rocket motor production, all semiconductors if Taiwan has Chinese submarines interdicting container ships). In 15 or 20 years add warship and submarine count to that list of concerns, but for a war tomorrow we would be alright, although anyone expecting a cakewalk with low casualties will be shocked by the low lifespans of sailors and aircrew on both sides.
@@shamasmacshamas7135 The US navy has no combat experience past procedural experience in things like firing missiles, and tracking targets.
Which can be wholly replicated in a training environment.
The US navy may be more profession at it, but that does not constitute a gap in combat experience, because the US have little relevant experience.
If the US experience from the Middle East was so relevant, then Army Vision 2028, or the Major Marine Corps reforms won't be needed. But they are being enacted, precisely because the relevant experience is inadequate.
@@shamasmacshamas7135
China doesn't have to worry about the Houthis because of their diplomacy
Diplomacy is the best way to solve problems
Well said.
The "US actually has combat experience" cope is so weak, it's hilarious how people have been leaning on it for so long.
@@mehmetbozkurt3274I mean I don't get you people. Do you want US to fail because "hurr durr US bad" or you genuinely love the CCP? 🤔
Just to add a layer to the topic of their use of poetry and idiomatic language: Chinese is a very figurative language. They aren’t reciting complex verses in the sense that we in English would see a lot of words on the page that each represent their own meaningful part of the sentence. It’s more that the idioms (成语）have almost become their own single morphological units over the amount of time and distance that they’ve been employed.
Literacy is a huge impact on an army. The Prussians first took advantage of this by creating modern NCOs. Because back then, only nobles could read and give out orders according to their commander's plan. But if said noble got exploded by Sergei, then everyone in that regiment would get stuck doing nothing in the battlefield. That creates gaps that the enemy can exploit and an opportunity for mass panic. But if your sergeant can pick up his commander's orders and somewhat achieve them while maintaining discipline, it can go just as planned. It also allowed the lower class to develop in a martial class in Prussia, because everyone had the ability to move up. It's pretty interesting if you look into it.
What year/period did they start doing this? I always knew about German/WW2 "mission planning" and small unit competence, but I never knew where it came from.
@ Frederick I crested the infrastructure for the Prussian army. His son, Frederick the Great used his system to match the great powers despite being 1/5th the size. Frederick I was really obsessed with it because Brandenburg had lost 1/3 to 1/5 of its population in the 30 yrs war. A good reason tbh.
@@nicholasgutierrez9940 But was that when the Prussian NCO system was created? Linear warfare did not require a huge number of small unit leaders.
11:10 not sure if dude said, 'Well at the very least they could, Read' or 'Well at the very least they could, Breed'
Selective hearing
Actually one of the best and most insightful videos I've seen recently, congratulations.
It was originally supposed to be significantly longer but the video was getting too long, so I might do a part 2
@@Justin_Taylor Please do
@@Justin_Taylor Please do Part 2. With China in the news, it would be valuable to actually get some info about their military, as opposed to their new weapons, which is all everyone else seems to focus on.
Virgin US Marine eating crayons vs Chad PLAGF soldier quoting Sun Tzu
yes this is a joke but
1 marine = 30 bugmen
Poetry orders written by commanders was found on dead North Vietnamese Soldiers in the war.
i usually skip right past sponsor ads but im so proud of you that i actually watched the whole thing. get that bag son
Dongfeng mengshi are actually humvee, the Chinese bought license for them in the 90s 🤣 it crazy how much shit american sold or transfer to the Chinese from 1975-2000. From c130-s70 Blackhawk , training of their officer , humvee , join tank development,... Not only american but also french and British
13:11 Cool I actually learned something. Or connect the thoughts that I already knew but had not connected. Thanks awesome video
An odd part for me is sorting out security and uprising suppression units. A lot of dictatorships have units with paramilitary capacity who serve as coup defence or revolt suppression.
Water Margin fricking slaps bro don't sleep on it, actually just a blast to read, especially all the funny social interactions in the beginning and window into a ming authors idea of what people in the song were like.
And Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Shit's fye.
That whole slogan thing isn't limited to the military - thats just generally a very Chinese / Chinese government thing.
One thing that people kept saying is "Us military is more experienced" now that is entirely not true. first of all, experience from tradoc doesn't mean much of anything. because most of the people that had combat experiences have now got out after two or so rotations. and most of the fights in the past century for US are basically gurella fightings, against afghan villagers and vietcons. last time US and China had a fight, China was in the middle of a civil war, and PRC was just established, with outdated equipments and terrible cold weather protections and limited rations, still manage to push americans back to the 38th. don't underestimate China.
The Chinese published their research papers in their own language
Digital data converts analog signal to discrete before processing and being converted back to continuous waveforms (light).
In the case of light, analog can be processed directly without conversion. This tends to be harder to implement though.
Source I am an electrical engineer.
Sorry not “harder”, more expensive.
analog nvg better
source trust me bro
@@pekka405analog nvg is objectively better tho
china's doctrine is evolved for defense of a specific territory, but is not ideal for taking and holding territories outside of the core.
As a service member I can tell you half of our crap doesn’t work, CCO’s break down all the time and you see soldiers ripping them apart and having to use iron sights. During my deployment in Syria, vehicle part replacements took months and they were very expensive, the army gives you a one million dollar equipment that breaks after a 2 weeks of use and you need to wait for 5 months for a replacement. We had to steal from the air force… I mean tactically acquired several key items from the Air Force.
12:45 oh, like US rifle twirling? 😂
It's hard for me to imagine a disorganised Chinese military. Basically all militaries across East, Southeast and South Asia are extremely professional especially given the high volume of border and maritime border disputes there. If they weren't, there would probably be an ongoing war over a border dispute at the moment.
I'm gonna be clear on the Friction thing. It is more complicated and more central to what hes saying
They do have oporders, but theyre built with flexibility in mind. I'm going to paraphrase from ATP7-100.3 here. Their main goal, (IAW Sun Tzu) is to disturb and distrupt enemy command and control cycles at every level - Tactical through manuever, deception and Electronic Warfare; Operational through a mobile positional warfare, using multi domain warfare to seek small systems that disrupt the enemy OP; and strategic through undermining alliances, civillian morale ect. They view non-kinetic actions breaking enemy C2 as most important. The focus is on eliminating enemy cohesion through information warfare.
Third video i've watched of yours. Great content and you are an engaging speaker. Good stuff.
Strategically speaking: China's thousands of years of history are very rich in writings about politics and military, alliances and struggles, confrontations and battles, and even giving up without a fight; in other words: there is no lack of deep understanding of war in China. At the same time China has experienced very many wars in its history, on a scale as large as a 60% reduction in population. China understands that war means the loss of life and the annihilation of wealth.
In terms of battles: in modern times, China has experienced the Korean War and the Sino-Vietnamese War, two wars close to modern times, and basically understands the great difference between hot weapons and the cold weapons of ancient times. Due to the huge loss in the Korean War, there is an assertion in the Chinese Internet environment: the Chinese army has: “insufficient firepower phobia”. Especially after China witnessed the “Gulf War” in 1990, China has invested a lot of energy in the construction of technological and informatization of the army.
Tactically, thanks to the Chinese Communist Party's guerrilla roots during the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese military has a long tradition of “light infantry”, and even in the modern naval system the Chinese Navy has the 22 series of guerrilla-type ships that displace hundreds of tons of water and carry eight anti-ship missiles and reach speeds of up to 50 knots. Large warships such as the 055 type 052D type are contained in the air defense, anti-ship and other full-featured type or large or small modern dreadnoughts, both mixed regimental combat, but also independent travel record.
From the individual: China's military, both teamwork, order obedience, but also to train people's individual ability, especially to understand the war (understand for whom to fight), to understand the battle (understand how to overcome), so the troops in the company level have a political officer: political commissar. In addition, there is a proverb in the Chinese army: advanced weapons are only tools, but what really wins the war is the man!
Generally speaking, the Chinese army is modeled after the Soviet Union and the United States, taking into account the economic, industrial and demographic situation of China. China's leaders now believe that development is the most important thing, and that the only thing they really need to prepare for by force is the recovery of Taiwan. But this war will not happen until it is completely irreversible.
6:53 is “Starship Troopers” by Heinlein still on the USMC Officer Candidate reading list?
It is on the commandants reading list. As well as a bunch of other BS like enders game.
This was surprisingly informative, and it actually gave me insights I've been looking for over the past five or so years. Thank you for that. If you have any other videos on the strategic and tactical distinctions between various major military forces across the world, I'd love to see them
Interesting that Muricans still try to lecture other military forces jokingly even after the failure in Afghanistan.
Did you have a plan back then and how did it work out for ya?
@@leonana11 wtf is that emoji where did you get that
@@Justin_Taylor lol, just ignore that clown bro. We won in Afghanistan so hard
@@Joe._Biden It wasn't popular and lasted too long. Plus Biden's evacuation was an historic disaster, but to say we lost that war is nonsense. Plus, war is so much more complex than win/lose
@@Joe._Biden yeahhhhhhhhh we won the wars like Vietnam and Iraq yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Fortunately, the Soviet Union collapsed early, otherwise the Russians would have learned the USA optimistic war propaganda.😄
@@Joe._Bidenyeah i can tell because i still see american soldiers in Afghanistan… oh wait those are the taliban in abandoned us uniforms and equipment.
You know you're dealing with a real China expert when they pull out the social credit memes.
The social credit system is totally real. Ask literally any Chinese person.
😂😂
😂
I mean it is real, but only for a small fraction of society such as CCP party members
@@leonfa259 It's not.
No one in the CCP is going to lose brownie points for playing video games, or whatever other nonsense.
@@theredbar-cross8515 if there is really such thing，it's mean ccp care everyone in the country?
you are analyzing the propaganda footage that they use for "cool points" as their actual strategies. sorry dude but the information value in your videos is equal to the usual short 10sec tiktoks brainrot but in a 10minutes format, with some US bias peppered on top of it...
Anyone saying chinese copied f22 would imply they got their hands on one, very stupid claim.
You don’t need to have a physical plane to copy it. Here you go friend: www.eurasiantimes.com/f-22-f-35-b-2-bombers-sensitive-data-leaked/?amp
Arm yourself with knowledge
The chinese reseaech into low observable aircraft comes from the nighthawk shot down over belgrade. They bought the wreck from serbia. The J20 is an Su27 dressed up in nighthawk clothes basically. It has bo direct relation to the US's more recent stealth programs.
Bht it is fumny, how the blatantly wrong propaganda mill keeps contradicting itself. A year ago all you could hear is that its a MiG1.44, when it doesnt even bore a superficial resemblence to that aircraft, and now its appearently a Raptor copy.
I'm trying my absolute best not to get autistic about Chinese analog night vision bc it isn't very good.
more modern chinese analogue nightvision is better, the stuff exported to the USA is often dogshit though.
what do you exactly know about "chinese analog night vision" lol?
do you doomscroll weibo posts, or bilibili? probably not considering you need an id card to register for those
you are the analogue of a chinese person talking about how the abrams is outdated when they only watch self-cherrypicked videos published by a non-credible source on bilibili
You missed a really good example during the sloganneering (probably spelt that wrong) part. Evans Carlson of the marine Raiders was an observer who was attached to Maos army during the communist revolution and adopted the term "Gung ho" and their egalitarian structure into the marine Raiders.
Want to know the real China military? Stop searching on the Google.😂
Its called a DSP, you take a source (from a digital light sensor, a camera) then you run it through a DSP (digital signal processor), where by you amplify certain binary segments of the digital image and you can also apply other kernels (filters) to the image to get the image you so desire. This should actually give you a superior image than using an analog system. Given you are limited with analog systems as all you do is take the wave forms (don't convert them to binary via quantization), send them through a frequency filter (low pass, high pass, band pass and so on) and then use some sort of amplification method to increase the frequencies you want. The digital method basically lets you photoshop the image in real time, the analog one is limited to just amplification and signal filtering. So the digital method is limitless and the latency you complain about is only a matter of using the right hardware and not an inherit flaw, a slow DSP or microcontroller will cause higher latency for example. You also claim battery issues, I don't see how other than they used the wrong batteries or they used a bad DSP/CPU or something that drinks more energy than it should, this can also happen with analog, you can use cheap filters that waste more power and so on. There is nothing stopping a digital NVG system from having a higher res, lower latency, and a better image, other than simply cost and general supply constraints. (I am a final year electrical engineer so I'm sure I got some of that right)
The 33k subscribers still seems wild
the fact that their NODS are monocular probably also point to it's usage as night operation navigation and identification rather than actual general night vision, i mean this as they probably are trained to aim with the other eye in dark (which is not better than actual western night vision doctrine but atleast mitigate the problem with digital Night vision). could also be that they use it to just guide tracers onto target rather than aiming with the NODS
to be honest it's also pretty concerning that they are adopting this stop gap relatively quickly when considering the PLA only just started rolling out body armor and digital equipment a few years ago, like yea they are still pretty behind on this but will eventually catch up if they try hard enough
The idea of not having OPORDs is fucking mindbogling to me
What’s an OPORD?
Operations Order
Isnt the wests critique of soviet style doctrine is that its too rigid and usually say that decentralization is important? Which is it now?
@@u2beuser714 somewhere in between the rigidity of the soviet method & the lack of structure of the CCP’s method. That’s not complicated
@@u2beuser714Somewhere in between obviously
Digital nods are much more cheaper to mass equip . ever since china build up their massive air power and naval power the need of deploy huge number of super well equipped troops in war no longer a thing . meanwhile china still need to maintain huge number of troops to perpare , patrol border , trainning ...etc , and trainning ruin/break stuff alot > cheaper NVG is better . and the real good NVG better save for real combat situation . you can easily see top tier analog NVG include quad eyes one being used currently in many PRC counter terrorism special force , military police ...the one most likely have real chance of actual combat
When looking at Chinese gear, do not trust what you are looking at. China likes to put on a show.
"I wrote in a joke like every other word" this is exactly why i cannot watch these kinds of story telling youtubers that weave a tangled web of nonsense tangeants, wikipedia factoids and painfully unfunny jokes without taking a breath
Damn... that dude at the end is going to be cleaning that gun for a week.... he was firing his own smoke screen.
You don't really need a plan when your army doctrine is literally Zerg the enemy.
when was the last time the usa won a war?
First gulf war
Mid 90s.
11:21 oh god the backlash on those motors, the wobble is visible
Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a book to teach loyalty? Uh... did any of their generals actually read the book? At all? Even one page?
I think they do. Historical stories, even Chinese nationalism in 1920, is considered safe by the party.
I think they specifically talk about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei when teaching loyalty
Ahh yes Guan Yu the super loyal dude that defected to Wei for a bit
So, Americans don't like to read, and they tend to think we 中国🇨🇳 are the same.
By the way, use Three Kingdoms to teach loyalty? Americans never cease to amuse me😂😂
I'm not a big fan of the larping, but I adore poetry or novelty in military. From "the die is cast", then "England expects every man to do his duty", "we shall fight on the beaches", "tiger tiger tiger", even "the world wonders" or "nuts". A little bit of inspirational material to charge once again unto the breach is quite... nice, for such terrible thing that is war.
Say what you want about china but the fact is everything we say is speculation. We know very little about the intricacies of that structure. I so I take all these “military channels” with a grain of heavy salt. We are almost ignorant to what china truly has and how it works.
did you even watch the video
If you have a good plan then your troops know how to adapt when things go to shit and still accomplish the mission
A very good example to help people learn to identify facts and opinions🤣It's so ridiculous to see Americans are relying on an 'expert' who even strongly believes in the 'social credit' sh*t to teach them about China's military lol
Modern Chinese military equipment is heavily modified versions of Russian and US design. In recent years, the development becomes more independent.
"Do their junior enlisted soldiers marry strippers as often as ours do."
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divided by country, united in degeneracy
Due to the old One Child policy, most PLA soldiers don't have anyone to marry. It's why most young men in China are having to marry older women.
How th did my united in degen comment get deleted 😓
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Thats not true at all: "In 2023, the sex ratio of the total population in China ranged at approximately 104.5 males to 100 females. The gender ratio in the United States attained a value of 97 males per 100 females In 2024, the sex ratio of the total population in the United Kingdom is 97.833 males per 100 females." Its basically the same. If you wanted to get a girl you can, especially a fit uniformed military man lol. You only hear about certain parents only selecting men because its unique and the government wants you to. Que the 1000th economist article about China collapsing lmao. Also there is no tech that can really ensure a man before, and now unlike other countries that banned screening for disabilities, they banned screening for gender. Now basically no one cares if a woman or a man gets born, both are encouraged.
@@oo-xb6gv It is true. It's obvious you're a Chinese bot, just pushing fake information to make China look better. The One Child policy was a disaster for China.
Do you have a link to the info on China's concept of "friction" in military doctrine, I'd be intrested at reading it?
5:05 analog has a warmer sound
@@JinKee only if you spend 5k on a specialized cable and make sure you treat the room you’re using the NVGs in
did they just do a combat roll in middle of a fire fight training 😂😂
Three kingdom romance and water mash are more on brotherhood and loyalty rather than military strategy. I noticed the difference in China and the USA in the way of thinking, not only in the military, that Chinese try to divide a complex problem into smaller, simpler and more operable things while the US makes the original problem even more complicated, like you said, planning, planning on planning, eventually shift the focus of the original problem to process.
I seriously want to see this guy do a video regarding Microsoft PowerPoints contribution to Warfare
Comparing tanks and planes on an individual basis is stupid and useless, tactics, doctrine, logistics, cost, adaptability, training, recruitment, morale, willingness to take and inflict losses and on and on are not only much more important and influences how to evaluate a weapon system. The endless discussions about kit a the internet are funny but also futile. I get it, it’s tangible and looks like you can measure it and then you can argue 50 years about penetration values but it say nothing about the effectiveness and efficiency of an armed bureaucracy and how achievable the political goals are it’s given, how well it’s tailored to these goals and how willing a people is to accept the cost of achieving it.
I'm Japanese and I'm also interested in Chinese history.
Basically, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Magin, and Sun Tzu's Art of War and Seven Military Classics were among the books read by Chinese army and rebels and guellira.
Nurhaci, the founder of the Qing Dynasty, read these books, as did the peasant rebels.
The regular and guerrilla warfare of Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Kuomintang were also strongly influenced by these.
It was thanks to these factors that China was able to win the Sino-Japanese War.
These books contain excellent strategies,which were useful in the wars of the time.
I've also read a lot of US military manuals (FM-XX) and Soviet military books, and I can say with confidence that they're still useful today.
They're also read by the Japanese military guys！
They were useless 80 years ago, literally nothing translates today with the advent of total battlefield awareness with drones and opticals.
Did the United States win the Korean War and the Vietnam War? !😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Both of those places have a McDonalds. We won.
@@Justin_Taylor germany has BMW, Adidas, mercs stores and what not in the US. they won.
@@FH-rp5or and your mom has one of my t shirts
@@Justin_Taylor your 9 year old insult vocabulary is very hurtful. 😢
@@FH-rp5or thanks I’m trying to egg you on because it helps the video perform better
The thing about night vision is becoming more and more untrue every year. It's definitely getting pretty damn close.
You need 144hz refresh rate, sub frame latency, and 1080p resolution. It is lossible, but that that point you can also afford a photoelectron amplifier stack, and make a proper analouge NVD, which is more relyable and runs out of battery much slower.
@egoalter1276 yes, but as more of these high-quality digital ones come out, they're lieable to become cheaper due to market competition. It's not likely to happen the same way with analog. I don't disagree as thins stand though.
A little racist bias and "facts" from other TH-cam channels I see.
When you holla, when you speak, remember, you don't know me
Ayo Mr Taylor
Is there anywhere I can read more about the poetry to give order stuff?
The Chinese are expanding so fast and so suddenly that it wouldn't surprise me to see them introduce systems only to completely replace them a few years later.
They are just in a very different place than the western world , they are experiencing a rate of rapid change we cant relate to because they last time it happened to us was the industrial revolution.
The country has already undergone an industrial urbanization. Its currently a hybrid between private companies, state capitalism and old state run companies. It has a growing divide between urban and rural China.
@@SusCalvinI wouldnt really say a growing divide. The divide was already there and it was huge but being rapidly mended. The Chinese governments whole big focus is on boosting rural areas and making them self sufficient but sending cadre and training them on new tech, telling them which stuff will give them the most profit if they grow or produce etc while gifting them to tools to do it.
I think they called it the poverty elimination campaign or something
@@marcosburgos8415 I know the party is aware of it, but I'll have to see how well it works. They have done different rural vitalization drives.
The rural areas are not growing poorer, they are growing richer at a slower rate. Overall, the party draws a lot of its legitimacy from how many are no longer in extreme poverty since the 80's and 90's.
The cultivation of a warrior spirit, the emphasis of war as an art form rather than a trade, has been greatly underestimated by the United States, and I think we will rediscover that sentiment in this century.
One suggestion comes from China. You can look for information about China on social media in China. Such as bilibili
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out for them. I used to be one of those “our military is the best in the world” guys up until I saw Ukraine’s (aka NATO’s) military in the current conflict get thrashed by Russia who has been using a lot of old tech to great effect against some of the newest and highly trained militaries in Europe. Watching Iran’s hypersonics go through Israeli’s “Iron Dome” at will was another one of these revelations. The impending conflict is an inevitability whether it’s next year, next decade or next century… it’s the final draft of the teams that has yet to be decided and if there is one thing the last world war has taught us is that all the technology that the world’s most advanced country Germany could muster wasn’t enough to overcome the sheer numbers that the USSR could raise or overcome the unforeseen logistics of Mother Nature’s unforgiving Russian winter. The unimaginable numbers that Russia, China, Iran & North Korea as well as their possible future allies paired with some of the cutting tech that they have been pioneering in hypersonic & drone technology are going to make for an apocalyptic event not to mention the Nuclear capability that they possess. We live in a multi polar world whether people want to admit that or not… this is NOT 1989 anymore where the US stands alone as the sole superpower. This advantage was squandered by the authors of the “clean break” memo that wasted that advantage to advance Israel’s dominance instead of the US. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail but I fear that the group that is in control seeks to destroy all of us just the same… we are all their enemies and perhaps that is something we all have in common that can unite us. Time will tell, may God give us the strength & the courage to fight this evil.
Russia's performance in Ukraine has been completely subpar for the level of power they purport themselves as. Ukraine should, by every metric, have been crushed in weeks. Russia demonstrated a consistent inability to manage supplies for prolonged operations, secure supply lines, coordinate combined arms offensives, handle mechanized assaults, and many other fundamentals of large scale conventional warfare. It would be like if a somewhat better trained and prepared Iraq was able to somehow bog down a third of the US military for multiple years on end because the US made put all their stock into a 100km long supply convoy and promptly got it stuck in the middle of nowhere for artillery to annihilate. Also, the idea that Russia is just using old tech is patently false: They have spent plenty of assets that fall under a "modern/near-peer" description in Ukraine, they are now using old assets to make up for attrition without further atrophying the "high" part of their high/low structure.
Iron Dome was only ever meant to intercept large volleys of low velocity, often homemade, artillery. Not hypersonics. Interceptors of hypersonics are completely different systems from Iron Dome.
The US still maintains utter dominance in naval warfare, logistics, electronic warfare, aerial warfare, signal intelligence, combined arms warfare, and command & control over Russia. It has similar dominance - if to a smaller but still considerable degree - over China in the same regards. This is also ignoring the capabilities of its allies alongside it.
@@bluntcabbage6042 this is propaganda cope. You would do yourself and everyone else a favor to realize this. The Yemeni military is sinking ships at will and the US can do NOTHING about it to the extent that they have had to admit this much to their embarrassment. As for Naval Superiority, Hypersonic Weapons can sink any ship at any time. This was not the case just a few years ago, ships were well defended albeit not invincible but now the US’s legendary Aircraft Carriers are mere sitting ducks. Ukraine aka NATO built up its military for a decade while lying to Russia about their intentions. One of the largest and most technically advanced militaries in Europe is practically EXTINCT. Everyone is dead and they are rounding up teenagers and old men because no one is left. Even with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS that Zelenskyy was busy stealing to buy houses in Florida (Look it up) for when he eventually flees his country like a typical jew. Even the entire military industrial manufacturing of the western world can’t begin to build enough munitions. The US and Europes stockpiles have been dangerously depleted with no way of replenishing them any time soon. Where as the Russian military is now BIGGER than it was before the war due to rigorous recruitment and their military industry has been able to produce more than ALL of NATO combined. You have completely lost the picture thinking that the 4 of the world’s largest militaries Nuclear Armed and with tech the US DOES NOT POSSESS as well as robust industrial capabilities that left the US’s shores long ago aren’t a world ending threat. Stop listening to US press releases and due actual research. The US said their was WMD’s so they could carry out the “Clean Break Memo” for the past TWO DECADES, dude wake up… I get it, it feels warm & cozy to feel morally superior and militarily invincible but this isn’t your imagination, this is cold hard reality where all of the virtue signaling and propaganda our government spins is useless well I guess not totally useless since you buy it hook line and sinker, let me guess “there is no genocide is Gaza & Israel is our greatest ally” how’s that working out for you… dude, I’m not even mad at you brother, your view is what you have been told to have your entire life but at some point we have to break with the programming. They hinted at blowing up Nordstream, then they did, then they denied it. They told US they had “Surprises” for Russian then told Americans in Russia to “stay away from concert halls” in press conferences and then denied having any involvement when the terrorist fled to Ukraine and got caught even though we KNOW that NATO is running the show their and nothing gets done without their approval. We aren’t the “good” guys, just some guys that must choose to be good or bad.
@@CantonSecurity There is no legitimate evidence that Yemeni militia groups are sinking US Navy ships "at will". This is pure and quite obvious propaganda from groups willing to use Arma 3 footage as "proof" of their exploits.
You are also regurgitating talking points straight from hypersonic missile advertisements. They are not an end-all-be-all for naval warfare, they are severely limited in many ways. The USN is nowhere near as vulnerable to them as you claim them to be.
Russia's military is getting larger because they've entered a war economy and have partially mobilized. The US and NATO have not adopted a war economy and have not mobilized. This is a fundamental difference - the US and NATO are in a peacetime posture where their military numbers reflect as such. Had the US entered its own war economy and mobilization, its military would also greatly increase in size. This is a moot point.
Pray tell, what tech does the US' competitors have that it does not? The US has had hypersonic missile technology for years - it is and was a matter of doctrine to not pursue them as doggedly as China or Russia.
I harbor no ill will towards you but 90% of your reply looks like schizophrenic propaganda. You unironically parroted talking points from Russian and Chinese shills that get paid to run propaganda on Twitter.
0:39 MR AND MRS CHAD.😢😊
"hopefully we never find out" amen
I can't remember if your other videos have background music, but boy oh boy did i find this background music annoying.
Good analysis on the Chinese culture though.
Is it too loud or the music itself is annoying? Genuine question.
@@Justin_Taylor I will answer for him. The music is fine just needs to be turned down maybe 1-2db if that. It could be the song though that got loud at parts. Nothing crazy and you could still hear everything you said.
@Justin_Taylor too loud and doesn't fit the vibe. Sounds like background music in a laid back beach bar.
@@landenmorton4543 agreed. doesnt fit the vibe, and a tiny bit too loud.
This actually makes me nervous if they're leaning into the chaotic shitshow reality of war. We think they're overly centralized top down clowns. But they're not. "If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions."
Dont know where you are coming from but latest thermal and night vision are all coming from China...
China makes cheap analog nvgs, but doesn’t use them themselves, so…
@@raymoncism tooo smart to make them but too fool not to use them?
@@dustyarain yes. Everyone with a brain knows analog is better. By far.
@@dustyarain Maybe because the ones they made for the US and other western countries are sabotaged when we war China, scary to think they can possible make them explode in combat.
@@raymoncism just don't trust any xyz youtuber... they make state of the art night/thermal for civilians and we don't know what they have for military...
You forgot Sino-Vietnamese conflicts of 1979-1991.
Ok, what about it?
@@1.4billion65 They did fight a war abroad (enough of We never send troops abroad like USA Bullshit). But considering how they rather not talk about it like the Korean War, you can see it wasn't glorious.
@@jasonchao343 who are we?
i’m sorry if you live in these states 😭 3:03
I do it’s the worst
Whats up with those states?
As someone who lives in NC, the ban is rough here
@theactualeverest5088 corn is not easily accessible.....I heard it from a friend
@@agent_aphelion dear god no
Nobody currently in the Chinese Army has fought in a war or seen combat. That's all we need to know.
7:42 Tzeentch: “All according to keikaku.” (Translators’s note: Keikaku means “plan”)
No. 🫵
Krikau sounds like kek, means plan and would make a great deity thats also very kek
"All according to cake"
Editors note; he means keikaku
Translators note; keikaku means plan.
Citation from DBZA
editorializing by me.
welcome back cody ko i like the new mustache