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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...

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Taiwan’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...

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China’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...

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Improving 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...

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Handle 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...

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Preparing 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...

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China, 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...

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China’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...

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The 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...

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Taiwan’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,...

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Harriers 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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