Armed forces of the Republic of China

The Republic of China or Taiwan maintains important Armed forces to which the country devotes nearly 16,80% of the budget of the State (figures of 2003).

Personnel

The Armed forces of the Republic of China consist of a force of active of approximately 300.000 men and 3.870.000 reservists. Any young man having reached the 18 years age must carry out his military service. A plan of reorganization and optimization of the units should make it possible to reduce manpower to 270.000 about 2012, while maintaining a military training obligatory for all the young men.

The officers qualified, are well trained, technically effective. As a whole, the body of the officers tends nevertheless to being very preserving. The recruitment of young officers is difficult because of the competition with the private medium which offers gravitational careers to number of them.

The moral one of the volunteers is generally regarded as being rather low, because in particular of these difficulties of retention of the qualified personnel, of the reductions of force, management to old and a military culture with a structure of command very rigid not supporting the initiatives and takings risk on the lower levels of the hierarchy.

The tendency however seems to change since the wages and advantages of the military careers were notably improved to be able to be put in competition more favorably with the private medium.

Because of its historical heritage (with the last control of Continental China), the Army traditionally was the most important component of the military forces of the Republic of China. The awakening that the Army would have a role limited for the defense of the island in the event of attempt at invasion by the popular Armée with release of the Popular republic of China, involves a progressive decline of the terrestrial component with a setting in front of the air forces and naval.

Organization

The following commands defer to the commander-in-chief who is itself under the orders of the Minister for the Defense and the President of the Republic of China:

the Armed with the Republic of China
the Navy of the Republic of China
the Body of the Navy of the Republic of China
the Air force of the Republic of China
the military Police force of the Republic of China

The Garde-côtes of the Republic of China were formed as an entity disctincte in 2001 starting from units of the armed forces and the police force.

Principal feats of arms and battles

Operations and battles in Continental China (1912-1949)

Forwarding of North: 1925
First communist insurrection: 1927-1937

Revolt of Nanchang: 1927
Revolt of Harvests of Fall: 1927 Incidental
of Xi' year: December 12th, 1936

Second Sino-Japanese War/Second world war: 1937-1945 Incidental

of the Bridge Marco Polo: July 7th, 1937
Battle of Shanghai: August 13rd - November 9th, 1937
Battle of Nanjing: October-December 1937
Battle of Taierzhuang: March 24th - April 7th, 1938
First Battle of Changsha: September 17th - October 6th, 1939
Second Battle of Changsha: September 6th - October 8th, 1941
Third Battle of Changsha: 24 décember 1941 - January 14th, 1942
Défense of Sichuan: 1942 - 1943
Battle of Hengyang-Changsha: June 1944 - April 1945

Chinese Civil war: 1945 - 1949 Incidental

of the New Fourth Army: 1940 Incidental
228: February 28th - March 1947

Operations and battles in Taiwan (1949 at our days)

Battle of Kuningtou: October 25th, 25 - October 28th, 1949
Battle of the Island Denbu: 3 November 5th, 1949
First Battle of the Dadan Island: July 26th, 1950
War of Korea: 1950-1953, participation in the conflict by the sending of translators and the raids in China of South-west starting from the Burma
Battle of the Island Nanri: 11 April 15th, 1952
Battle of the Donshan Island: July 15th, 1953
First Crisis of the Strait of Taiwan: August 1954 - May 1955

Battle of the Islands Yijiangshan: January 18th, 1955
Evacuation of the Islands Tachen: 7 - February 11th, 1955

Second Crisis of the Strait of Taiwan: August 23rd - at the beginning of October 1958

Second Battle of the Dadan Island: August 26th, 1958

War of Vietnam: Small groups of the army of the Republic of China, disguised locally, take part in the conflict while ensuring of the missions of transport and technical assistance. This participation remained secret to avoid a conflict with the Popular republic of China.
Battle of DonYin: 1st may 1965
Battle of Wuchow: 13 November 14th, 1965
Third Crisis of the Strait of Taiwan: July 21st, 1995 - March 23rd, 1996
Participation in aid operations after the Tsunami in Southeast Asia of December 26th, 2004: January 2005

Traduction starting from the english language version of wikipedia

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