There is an old Chinese saying: Although a country is big, it will die if it is belligerent; Although the world is safe, forgetting the war will be dangerous. Over the past 70 years, the people's army has resolutely shown its sword and participated in many wars such as the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Sino-Indian Self-Defense Counterattack, the Zhenbao Island Defense War, and the Sino-Vietnamese Self-Defense Counterattack War, and our opponents are the United States, which is known as the world's strongest, the Soviet Union, the regional hegemon India, and Vietnam, which is known as the "world's third military power." We have all triumphed without exception. What an extraordinary history this is, worthy of the pride and pride of the Chinese people, and today we will take stock of a few famous battles.
Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea:
After more than 3 years of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Volunteer Army defeated the armies of 17 countries led by the United States, won a great victory, and laid the pattern of a major country in one fell swoop. This war has profoundly and continuously affected every Chinese and many generations of Chinese.
The victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea has won a peaceful and long-term strategic space for China's development. The result of the Korean War – the division of the Korean Peninsula rather than a unified state, the mutual checks and balances between North and South Korea, can be said to have maximized China's national interests.
Self-defense counterattack on the Sino-Indian border:
In the late autumn of 1962, armed conflict broke out between China and India in the border area. In order to safeguard territorial sovereignty and dignity, the Central Military Commission decided to conduct a self-defense counterattack operation. Chinese, in the face of internal and external difficulties, drove the Indians back to their hometown in only one month and won a complete victory in a "highland blitzkrieg." In the eastern sector, Chinese border troops entered the area south of the illegal "McMahon Line" near the traditional customary line, killing and capturing more than 8,700 Indian troops and capturing a large number of weapons, equipment and materials.
After the war, Chairman Mao said that this was "a military-political war, or a political-military war," and estimated that the war would guarantee stability for ten years. It turns out that this battle has brought fifty years of peace to the Sino-Indian border.
War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam:
This war was fought for a total of 20 years, when the American soldiers were of high combat quality and very sophisticated weapons, while the Vietnamese people were very backward, and in order to help the Vietnamese people gain independence and peace, china also sent anti-aircraft artillery units, minesweepers and engineering units, as well as railway troops and other excellent troops, and also delivered a large amount of materials to the Vietnamese region.
Counter-Attack against Vietnam:
With the help of our country, the Vietnamese side finally drove the US side out, but at this time the Vietnamese side was extremely inflated, and they began to provoke our country and hurt our people, and then our country began to launch a counterattack war against Vietnam in 1979. In just one month our country won the war, but we did not annex Vietnamese land and withdrew from Vietnam soon after the victory. The Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack operation, the Vietnamese self-defense counterattack to defend the frontier operation, also known as the Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack operation.
These wars can be called the founding war of our country, and our country has won the final victory without exception. Although our country does not like war, when it comes to national sovereignty, then our country will never be vague, after all, most of the time, war is the best way to solve the problem!