Taiwanese Leaders Should Skip the Victory Day Parade in Beijing
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday announced that sluggish recruitment figures were once again forcing it to delay its plans to end military conscription next year, one of the major...
View ArticleTaiwan’s Invisible Frontier: Cyberspace
It has been a long since anyone fired in anger across the Taiwan Strait. The last large-scale outbreak of hostilities was the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis and minor clashes throughout the 1960s. Since...
View ArticleChina’s ‘Victory Day’ Military Parade: A Worrying Signal
Now that the intermediate-range nuclear missiles, combat aircraft, long-range bombers, rocket launchers, tanks, attack helicopters, 70,000 doves and countless balloons have cleared off from Tiananmen...
View ArticleImproving Readiness in the Military
Since taking office some seven years ago, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has consistently undermined the ability of the Taiwan armed forces to defend the nation against the possibility of attack from the...
View ArticleHandle With Care: The Pandora’s Box of Cyber Attacks
In his article “Taiwan’s Invisible Frontier: Cyberspace,” Michal Thim looks at cross-Strait interactions via the domain of cyberspace. While providing a good start to the discussion, I would like to...
View ArticlePreparing Taiwan’s Military to Fight the Right War
The Taiwanese military is in need of serious reform and restructuring. There hasn’t been much good news surrounding its military lately. The attempted transition to an all-volunteer force has run into...
View ArticleChina, Taiwan, and the Challenge of Military Transformation
Early on the morning of Jan. 17, 1991, began a series of events that have had a considerable impact on Chinese military modernization and the military balance across the Taiwan Strait. A U.S.-led...
View ArticleChina’s Aircraft Carrier Program: Implications for Taiwan and the Region
Ever since the surprising attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the aircraft carrier has become a symbol of naval power and an ultimate power projection tool. Nothing has epitomized the U.S. global...
View ArticleThe New Arms Sale to Taiwan and U.S. Policy Toward the DPP
It’s been a long time in coming, but multiple reports out of Washington suggest that at some point in December the Obama administration will announce its intention to sell Taiwan a new package of...
View ArticleTaiwan’s Submarine Program: Lessons from the Past and Expected Challenges
During the 1982 Falklands War between Argentina and the U.K., all but one ship of the Argentinian navy retreated to port after the controversial sinking of the General Belgramo light cruiser on May 2,...
View ArticleHarriers for Taiwan? Think Again
Taiwan’s air force has been trying for years to acquire new additions to its existing fleet of indigenous F-CK-1, French Mirage 2000, and U.S. F-16, all of which were delivered in the 1990s. Even...
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