Ancient history

The Birth of the People's Republic of China Army

The Chinese, for their part, had to admit that a war against a well-equipped and determined army was not won by repeated suicidal attacks. Nor could numerical superiority alone compensate for primitive logistics, inadequate communications, fragile and intermittent methods of supply, and sparse fighter training.
Besides, in the end of the war, Chinese techniques could compete with the most sophisticated techniques of the United Nations and their military arsenal was infinitely more perfected in 1953 than in 1950.
In fact, the Korean War had contributed to the establishment of the first elements around which the very powerful Chinese people's army of today was to be organized. This war also provides stark and devastating proof of what modern forces can accomplish and what armies with inferior equipment have to lose.