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The Mountaintop Mirage: Why Xi’s Military Purges Cannot Produce the Force He Wants
War on the Rocks — 2026-04-28T07:30:31+00:00
During the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, a 26-year-old company commander’s unit was pinned down by a fortified hilltop. After frontal assaults failed, the junior officer made an extraordinary request: an entire battalion, four times the size of his own unit, for a jungle flanking maneuver. The reg...
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