Taiwan lives under the shadow of an authoritarian state determined to undermine, undercut, and extinguish Taiwanese sovereignty. One poisoned fruit of that effort is an induced defense incoherency and paralysis, which Taiwan has only recently and partly overcome. In part 1, I discussed how Taiwan needs an all-around defense centered on its new “strategy of erosion” (削弱戰略). This is a strategy intended to utilize Taiwan’s terrain to maximize defender advantages, and to systematically erode the PLA’s combat power as it presses in on the island—as well as to guard against a return of paralysis in defense planning.Read More
Making Time Work for Taiwan, Part 2
