The People's Liberation Army should expand the scale of its special forces to adapt itself to future wars, in line with China's military reform, writes the PLA Daily, the official paper of China's armed forces.
"The form of war has changed, so has the way operations are carried out," Xi Jinping, China's president and head of the Central Military Commission, said in a recent speech. "Our [the PLA's] military mindset and principles for operations must progress with time" to strengthen our capability in information gathering, the system itself, elite troops and collaboration.
Special forces carry out specific missions on a limited scale. Their task-oriented nature, along with their high mobility and efficiency makes them ideal for regional contingencies.
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