ATP 7-100.3: Chinese Tactics

TL;DR — The US Army’s 252-page field manual on how the PLA fights — doctrine, formations, and operational method.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. US federal government work (17 USC §105).

Army Techniques Publication 7-100.3, August 2021. Approved for public release.

The Army’s own account of People’s Liberation Army tactics — command structure, formations, how the PLA thinks about the operational level, and what its doctrine says it will do. Written to train US units against a realistic opposing force.

A doctrine manual is an unusually honest document: it has to be accurate enough to train against, so it reflects what the Army actually believes rather than what it wants said publicly.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

252 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.