Comparison of US and Chinese Military Armed Forces

Table comparison between the US and Chinese Military[edit]


Official name	United States Armed Forces	People's Liberation Army (Chinese: 中国人民解放军)
Service Branches	U.S. Army U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy U.S. Air Force U.S. Space Force U.S. Coast Guard	PLA Ground Force PLA Navy PLA Air Force PLA Rocket Force PLA Strategic Support Force
Supreme Command	Department of Defense	Central Military Commission
Leadership	Commander-in-Chief: President Joseph R. Biden Secretary of Defense: Lloyd Austin Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Charles Q. Brown Jr.	Chairman of the Central Military Commission: Xi Jinping Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission: General Zhang Youxia Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission: General He Weidong Minister of the National Defense: General Li Shangfu Chief of the PLA General Staff: General Liu Zhenli
Armed Forces Personnel	2,127,500 approx. (2019)^[1]	2,535,000 approx. (2019)^[1]
Military Expenditure	$877 billion (FY20)^[2]	$293 billion (FY20)^[2]
Percent of GDP	3.74% (2020)^[3]	1.75% (2020)^[3]
Nuclear Arsenal	5,113 warheads (ranked 2nd.)	500 warheads (ranked 3rd.)
Major Wars and Events	American War of Independence (1775–1783) Early national period (1783–1812) War with Mexico (1846–48) American Civil War (1861–1865) Post–Civil War era (1865–1917) Indian Wars (1865–1870) Spanish–American War (1898) Philippine–American War (1899–1902) Banana Wars (1898–1935) Moro Rebellion (1899–1913) Early 20th Century World War I (1917–1918) World War II (1941–1945) Cold War Era Cold War (1945–1991) Korean War (1950-1953) Vietnam War (1965–1973) Gulf War (1991) Post-Cold War Kosovo War (1999) War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Iraq War (2003–2010)	Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang (KMT) as the Chinese Red Army. (1927–1949) World War II against the Empire of Japan (1937–1945) Yangtze Incident (the battle against British warships on the Yangtze River (1949) Reclaiming of Tibet (1950–1951) Korean War (Under the banner of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army) (1950–1954) First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955) Second Taiwan Strait Crisis at Quemoy and Matsu (1958) Sino-Indian War (1962–1962) Border skirmishes with India (1967) Vietnam War (over 320,000 Chinese soldiers served in North Vietnam throughout the war). (1965–1970) Sino-Soviet border conflict. (1969 to 1978) Battle of the Paracel Islands (1974) Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) Border and naval skirmishes with Vietnam (1986, 1988) Tiananmen Square protests (1989) Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1995–1996) PLA Control of Hong Kong's Military Defense (1997) PLA Control of Macau's Military Defense (1999) China-India border skirmishes (2020-2022)

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Armed forces personnel, total - United States, China | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Military expenditure (current USD) - United States, China | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Military expenditure (% of GDP) - United States, China | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.

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[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Armed forces personnel, total - United States, China | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.

[:1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Military expenditure (current USD) - United States, China | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.

[:2-3] 3.0 ^3.1 "Military expenditure (% of GDP) - United States, China | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.

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