Hong Kong, Feb. 10 -- Chairman Xi Jinping is rolling out a major education program to instil required levels of loyalty within the country's massive and highly politicized military.

The campaign is directed at top members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) because Xi believes their personal fealty to his ideological cause is inadequate.

Mao Zedong had a famous dictum that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. But Xi is worried the hands directly holding those guns do not share his vision of the supremacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He has to make sure those gun-wielding hands are steady and will do his bidding, and never turn the barrel against him.

On February 4 , Xi announced the rollout of his education init...