Just an fyi, Pierre Sprey is a bit of a controversial figure. He has argued that the army should abandon the M1 Abrams and go with M48's. Both war's in Iraq should have unequivocally shown that numeric superiority can be defeated by a more technologically advanced foe.

http://pogoarchives.org/labyrinth/09/07.pdf

China has since dramatically intensified their efforts in modernization learning from Iraqi mistakes from Dessert Storm.