WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders are concerned and totally jealous after China announced that its famed army of 8,000 terracotta sculptures has completed every course of the People’s Liberation Army mandatory web-based training.

Col. Marcus Bullock, spokesperson for Army G-3 Training branch, said that China has a long tradition of stifling levels of bureaucracy similar to Army Regulation 350-1 and other regs throughout the DoD.

“Remember that it was the great warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu who said, ‘Know yourself and Composite Risk Management, and you shall win 100 battles,” Bullock said.

This puts the U.S. in the unenviable position of potentially facing an adversary armed with knowledge of substance abuse programs, information awareness, resiliency, and other similarly critical warfighting skills. “This is an alarming level of lethality for the Terracotta Army,” Bullock said.

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