Mrstrategy
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What were the mistakes nationalist china made that lost her the civil war with communist china?
What were the mistakes nationalist china made that lost her the civil war with communist china?
Counting 1945 and later, I would say: Overextending Nationalist military resources trying to simultaneously occupy east, north and northeast (Manchuria) China. This prevented decisive campaigns to crush and uproot the Reds, allowed the Reds to eventually take the initiative, the eventual piecemeal defeat of nationalist armies, and even worse, the absorption of ex-nationalist soldiers and weapons into the communist armies. If the Chinese nationalist just focused on reclaiming everything up to the Lunghai railway (the railway running a couple hundred miles north of the Yangzi), or at most focused on reclaiming everything up to the Great Wall, but not beyond, the likelihood of the ChiNat forces being ground down and thrown out in just 5 years is greatly reduced.
-Not completely crushing the CCP even when it had the chance multiple times before the war with Japan started.
But wouldn't leaving Manchuria in Communist hands be unwise? It was the industrial heart of China, after all. Maybe take the US airlift but rather than fighting for Manchuria, either performing Scorched Earth or try to evacuate the industry. Would that work?
industrial heart? I thought it was the main barnyard for China(much like Nebraska is for the USA?)?
industrial heart? I thought it was the main barnyard for China(much like Nebraska is for the USA?)?
But wouldn't leaving Manchuria in Communist hands be unwise? It was the industrial heart of China, after all. Maybe take the US airlift but rather than fighting for Manchuria, either performing Scorched Earth or try to evacuate the industry. Would that work?
-Not completely crushing the CCP even when it had the chance multiple times before the war with Japan started.
This, inlcuding after 1945 where they had to opportunity again but were halted by the Americans when trying to take Manchuria.
it has been argued by Mariin Bernal that Chiang "*had* to send troops to Manchuria. .... Finally, and in my view this was crucial, Chiang had to be a national leader or he was nothing. If he failed in this he would be seen by China and the world to be a mere warlord. As 'leader of China' it was essential he assert himself in Manchuria which foreigners had been trying to prize away from China for the previous fifty years..."
Having Chiang in charge.What were the mistakes nationalist china made that lost her the civil war with communist china?
Starting the war in the first place, for one. The Nationalists should have consolidated a more powerful position over China by destroying the warlords first with the First United Front. But instead Chiang hated everything commie and uprooted leftist elements - both moderate and radical - in the Coup of 1928.What were the mistakes nationalist china made that lost her the civil war with communist china?
What were the mistakes nationalist china made that lost her the civil war with communist china?