就狭义军事史范畴而言，解放战争起讫应该以中国共产党领导下的人民革命武装与国民党及其他反动势力武装之间大规模持续性军事冲突的最初爆发和最终结束为标志。由此解放战争应该始于１９４５年９月的上党战役，而终于１９５０年１０月的昌都战役，历时达５年，并非３年或４年。 In the narrow military history category, the war on liberation should be marked by the initial outbreak and eventually the end of a massive and persistent military conflict between the people’s revolutionary armed forces under the leadership of the CPC and the armed forces of the Kuomintang and other reactionary forces. Thus the war of liberation should begin with the Shangdang campaign in September 1945, and finally the battle of Qamdo in October 1950 lasted five years, not three years or four years.