Why 84% of PLA Soldiers Died in Vietnam 1979

Описание: In February 1979, China invaded Vietnam with up to 600,000 troops to "teach them a lesson." What happened next became one of the most humiliating defeats in modern Chinese military history.

Despite 3-6:1 numerical superiority, the People's Liberation Army suffered catastrophic losses: 26,000 killed in just ONE MONTH—comparable to America's entire Vietnam War casualties. At Cao Ba Lanh, a 20-man Vietnamese platoon held off 2,800 Chinese troops, inflicting 422 casualties in 5 hours. The Battle of Lao Cai took 16 days and cost 8,000 Chinese casualties to capture a single city.

China's goals: Force Vietnam out of Cambodia and reassert regional dominance. The results: Complete strategic failure. Vietnam stayed in Cambodia for another 10 years, and China withdrew without achieving any objectives.

This is the forgotten war that exposed the PLA's "humiliating ineptitude" against battle-hardened Vietnamese forces. Using outdated Korean War human-wave tactics against guerrilla masters, China learned a brutal lesson about modern warfare.

The 1979 disaster forced Deng Xiaoping's complete military overhaul—the "Four Modernizations" that created today's PLA. But the question remains: Has China really solved the problems that killed 26,000 of its soldiers in 30 days?

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