Here is an article I wrote one year ago, enjoy.PLA’s Response to the May 12th Earthquake – An assessment(Special thanks to Michael Little and William Murray)A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richer Scale jolted southwest China's Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. on Monday, May 12th, 2008. With more than 70,000 deaths, this earthquake was one of the largest natural disasters to hit China in