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  • 13 July, 2020

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Training Mobilisation Order (TMO)

Training Mobilisation Order (TMO)

  • President Xi Jinping Thursday signed a mobilization order for the training of the armed forces, the first order of the Central Military Commission (CMC) in 2020.
  • Issued by Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the CMC, the order stressed strengthening military training in real combat conditions.
  • It also asked the armed forces to maintain a high level of readiness and step up emergency and combat training.
  • This TMO has led to the recent Galway clashes.
  • It is the strategy used by China to assess the real-time responses by the commanding officers during war-like scenarios.
  • It is a part of the military exercises program in Xinjiang province near to Ladakh.
  • The recent intelligence report from India suggests months of coordinated planning of the Chinese incursions into Indian territory along various parts of LAC is a part of this TMO.
  • The skirmishes and the recent approval of drawing a temporary buffer line along the LAC are the demands of Beijing to push back to Finger 18 away from Finger 4.
  • The order required strengthened joint command in training. It also stressed integrating new forces into the joint operations system.
  • Force-on-force training should also be strengthened and the evaluation system should be improved, according to the order.

Source: TH


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