Posted on 03/18/2010 9:40:10 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Republic of China Navy (ROCN), or Taiwan Navy, has an ambitious vision for its future strategy. According to the “ROC Navy Vision,” which is available on the Navy’s website, “Based on the guidance of ‘Command and control automation, Three-dimensional mobile strike capabilities and Missile-oriented weapon system,’ and through measures such as enhancing intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance, extending strike zone depth, expanding combat radius, accelerating response and contingency protection, the Navy aims to construct an effective deterring and three-dimensional mobile strike force that is elite, highly efficient, rapidly deployable, and capable of performing long range strikes” [1]. In other words, this “ROC Navy Vision” statement means that the Taiwanese navy intends to field surface, subsurface and aerial forces that share a common operating picture of the waters and skies around the island, fight together cohesively, and can strike at targets far distant, at sea or ashore, with ship-launched missiles. Can the ROCN follow through on such an ambitious vision? Naval operations fall into several categories, including sea control, sea denial, power projection ashore, attacks on or defense of the sea lines of communication (SLOCs), and naval diplomacy. Of these, the first—sea control—is most relevant to a cross-Strait contingency, the driving factor in Taipei’s defense strategy. For the sake of economy, the authors set aside the other functions and assess the ROCN’s capacity for sea control.
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Taiwan’s best defence would be to model the Swiss. When a soldier’s conscription period is up, send him home with his rifle.
Bring him back every 2-3 years for a bit of training.
Chinese Communists aren’t afraid of much, but they would think twice about screwing with up to 2 million armed Taiwanese.
that is what stopped the Japanese from taking Hawaii in 41.
“Still”?
The fact is that if China really ever gets serious about taking Taiwan back, if they get the will to match their resources, there is nothing either Taiwan or the United States could do to stop them short of the use of nuclear weapons. The best we can hope for, as I see it, is reform on the mainland leading to eventual reunification into one free and prosperous nation.
I agree with you that peaceful unification will happen.But China still has over 1000 DF-15s pointed at them and we should give Taiwan all the latest technology to defend themselves.
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