Inside Taiwan’s Strategy to Counter a Chinese Invasion | WSJ
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Published 2023-08-15
WSJ takes a look at how serious China’s threats to Taiwan’s east coast are and explores whether the island needs to change its defense strategy.
0:00 Taiwan’s current strategy
1:38 The problem
4:15 Taiwan’s reliance on allies
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All Comments (21)
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Everyone in these comments is a retired 5 star general. How lucky of Taiwan to have all these experienced combat planners.
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Omg how I missed reading comments from the world's finest military advisors.
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It’s crazy that in his age he’s that dialed into modern strategy… that guy has been around 3 times as long as me, but only has so much knowledge it’s incredible.
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The island of Taiwan's secret weapon strategy is actually the rumbling of over 600,000 Colossal Titans.
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If there is one thing I learn about war , it's that war is extremely unpredictable
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informative! great production 👏👏
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The Wall Street Journal clearly cares more about the Taiwanese than the Americans in Hawaii.
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There a good reason why the US and her allies in the region are making a new island defensive chain system. The goal of it to basically dismantle the China navy during it invasion. Making China force to choose between striking at a American carrier strike force or the defensive front that can do not only cripple but has the potential to stop the invasion with short range strikes onto it fleet.
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I really agree. Distributed network warfare demands many more distributable, expendable and networkable delivery systems that can easily pick up and move to different locations.
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I hope Taiwan never gets invaded. The free world stands with you.
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Why mankind still sees war as an option is beyond my comprehension. 😔
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I hope the peace can continue 🙏
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It doesn’t take much to interrupt the ship to shore movement. Once that happens the elements on the far shore are in deep trouble.
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The problems of a full scale invasion of Taiwan is well known, but a maritime blockade of Taiwanese ports is somewhat more complicated. It will most likely not have a full military response by the US, but equally the US would not be able to supply Taiwan either. How long could Taiwan survive such a siege?
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Showing ones strength to an adversary and having it well known is the key to any deterrence. Many wars including much of WW2 would never have happened if the attacking side really knew what they were up against.
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Spot on... He's absolutely right. Many , small makes overwhelming very much more difficult.
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You need anti ship wall and air defense and drone defense. Long range anti ship and artillery .
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The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that unmanned aerial weapons, MANPADS and drones will play a far more significant part in any future conflicts. Taiwan should be building up these resources
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Unfortunatily Taiwan is too close to China.
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Let's be honest, a major portion of Taiwan's strategy for dealing with China in the event of an invasion involves drawing the United States into the conflict.
