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The 2-million-strong Chinese Army recently conducted massive attack drills, tested warfare scenarios and practiced combat maneuvers in a large war game in northwestern China, raising questions about the extent of the countrys current preparation for a land war.The mock-combat operations included day and nighttime rapid assaults, live-fire strike tests, tactical training and weapons tests, according to a June 9 report in the Chinese Peoples Online Daily newspaper.The exercise included land-attack maneuvers, paratroopers and full-scale war scenarios involving armored vehicles, artillery, mechanized infantry tactics and scout missions.While the exercises are not likely to be viewed as surprising or unusual for China by Pentagon observers, these kinds of mechanized attack maneuvers, including some of Chinas newest modern weapons and armored vehicles, are likely to raise some concerns regarding the land war threat presented by the communist country.NEW SMALL US AIR

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