PLA explores new model of command training

The conference of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on assigning the command and confrontation training pilot task was held on March 5, 2012 at the Nanjing Army Command College. Nearly 100 leaders and experts from the leading organs of the PLA general headquarters/departments, troop units and educational institutions to be involved in the pilot work attended the meeting.

The PLA general headquarters/departments decided to adopt confrontation training as the basic training method for command body training and troop units' actual-troop exercise to realize the transformation of the command body training from the traditional model of organizing and conducting training solely by the command body to a new model of confrontation training which separates the command body, the simulated "Blue Army" and the directing and coordinating body. In order to encourage troop units to conduct confrontation training in a real sense, the actual-troop exercise will be transformed from one that is interfered by directing and coordinating body during the whole process to one that features independent confrontation drill by the "Red Army" and the "Blue Army".

As a pilot program of command and confrontation training, the "Army Operation Command Training Center" of the Nanjing Army Command College will organize commanding bodies at division and brigade levels to carry out confrontation drill with simulated commanding body organized by educational institutions in order to enhance the capability of commanding body in commanding actual combat and organizing training by using information system.

Troop units at brigade and regiment levels and the simulated "Blue Army" will be organized to conduct the actual-troop confrontation drill in the combined tactics training base in order to adopt simulation method to reflect the true situation on the battlefield and the result of the confrontation.

The pilot program of command and confrontation training and actual-troop confrontation exercise will be launched in the Nanjing Army Command College and a training base respectively in the third quarter of 2012.

Chen Yong, assistant to chief of general staff of PLA, attended and addressed the meeting.