Comparison of US and Chinese Military Armed Forces

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen

Minister of National Defense General Chang Wanquan
Chief of PLA General Staff General Fang Fenghui

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)
World War I (1917–1918)
World War II (1941–1945)
Cold War (1945–1991)
Korean War Vietnam War (1959–1975)
Gulf War (1991)
Kosovo War (1999)
War in Iraq (2001–present)
War in Afghanistan (2001–14)
Iraq War (2003–2010)