Love to see Taiwan start a big factory mass producing the Baykar Bayraktar drones.
That worked so well in ukraine.
I thought we were running out of weapons and ammo because of Ukraine?
So, when the Chinese take it over, they’ll have a reward like in Afghanistan!
Taiwan’s armed forces, which is tiny (something like 200K authorized active duty soldiers) can’t even come close to meeting its already small, government authorized/funded manpower requirements. 1/3 of units are considered inoperable because of manpower shortage
As an anecdote, I have a long-term business associate in Taiwan. He told me his son just finished his required “national military service” - 4 months total, and the kid didn’t fire a rifle one time.
I wonder who is going to operate all these new weapons?
I suspect Taiwan is thoroughly infiltrated as Hong Kong was.
We may just be stocking weapons for China to use.
Missiles can knock out Taiwan’s infrastructure, and this can be followed up with a blockade.
Taiwan can’t feed itself. It has no energy resources. Once the semiconductor fabs, chemical companies, etc. are gone, Taiwan has no value.
China doesn’t have to invade.
“ On to China! ”
Indeed. One rogue at a time.
Sounds like the strategy Douglas MacArthur was attempting to execute in the Philippines prior to Pearl Harbor. The problem was not with the strategy, but the lack of funding to adequately pursue it. (Not attempting to start a food-fight over the inadequacies of Douglas MacArthur as a commander.)
Great way to give red china our weapons after they take over Taiwan.
Of course.
Then Joe Biden will say, “This all belongs to the Taliban now. We owe them this much for the warranty claims on the stuff we left in Afghanistan.”
Pack it full of weapons, so we can abandon them later.