Mongolia tries to save Tibet from China

Mongolia would go down along with Tibet. Mongolia would not survive a war against China, which is probably why they let their ally go under the Chinese flag.
 
Mongolia would have been utterly crushed and would now also be a part of China. It has a total population of about two million people, it would have to arm them all (women, babies, the profusely old) to equal China's army...
 

Hendryk

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If you mean after 1950, when the PRC put an end to Tibet's de facto quasi-independent status, that would not only be militarily impossible (let's keep in mind that China's army was able to beat the US to a stalemate in Korea) but politically unthinkable as well. Mongolia had since 1924 become the People's Republic of Mongolia and was a Soviet vassal state. This would have been like suggesting that East Germany help, say, Hungary resist the 1956 Soviet crackdown.
 

ninebucks

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The Tibetan leaders didn't/don't live in the real world. They could have all the moral support in the world and they still would have spent their time chanting and hopping round in circles like idiots as the Peoples' Liberation Army marches in.
 
If you mean after 1950, when the PRC put an end to Tibet's de facto quasi-independent status, that would not only be militarily impossible (let's keep in mind that China's army was able to beat the US to a stalemate in Korea) but politically unthinkable as well. Mongolia had since 1924 become the People's Republic of Mongolia and was a Soviet vassal state. This would have been like suggesting that East Germany help, say, Hungary resist the 1956 Soviet crackdown.
They only achieved that stalement using human wave tactics actually.
 
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They only achieved that stalement using human wave tactics actually.
So? If it worked against technologiclly superior army, it will probblz work against an armz that is inferior in both numbers and technology.
 
With regards to military capabilities, I will say that while a stalemate was achieved between Chinese and U.S. forces in Korea (using a combination of human wave and infiltration tactics), by the time of the ceasefire that stalemate was beginning to show cracks in the face of increasingly glaring logistical and technological deficiencies in the PLA.

That being said, however, the PLA was still in perfectly fit shape to take on both Tibet and Mongolia with one hand tied behind its back.

Beyond that fact, the point still stands that Mongolia was a Soviet sock-puppet at that point in time, and the Soviet's were still plenty friendly enough with the PRC at that juncture that they wouldn't allow Mongolia to mess with affairs of its much larger and more important ally.
 
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