Care to enlighten us why then?You know nothing about ROC politics and why the “exercise” was designed the way it is.
Care to enlighten us why then?You know nothing about ROC politics and why the “exercise” was designed the way it is.
That is majority true but it’s still their most realistic exercises, it’s good to focus on them and see what they do because they may actually do them it also tells you a lot about their training level
People forget how the Hong Kong deal happened. Deng Xiaoping supposedly threatened Thatcher with an outright invasion if the UK did not concede.
We don't need "stories", the "true story" is known, declassified cables. There are no fanciful stories. The UK had prepared all kinds of ideas to float, joint administration, lease continuation, etc. Deng was simple and blunt, they are taking HK back. Basically, "you can do this the hard way or the easy way".Story goes the 'invasion' was simply Deng suggesting to Thatcher they would withdraw border control so as to let loose hundreds of thousands of Chinese southwards, overwhelming the city. No military mobilisation would be necessary at all.
HK (and the Brits by extension) at the time still had PTSD from the Vietnamese boat people crisis in the 1970s when up to 70,000 Vietnamese refugees flooded HK at its worst point during that crisis.
Needless to say Thatcher received the message promptly, her ponderance of which led to her (in)famous fall down the steps of the People's Great Hall.
From those cables, they had come up with those ideas because they knew it was militarily impossible to put up any sort of resistance.Didn't the Brits threaten the Chinese with the Gurkhas ??
Taiwanese military operates a three-tier mobilization system, with the lowest tier consisting of 18 local reserve brigades, each with a 4,000 personnel.Since you guys talk about reservists, can anybody help me make sense of how often they train? The mention 5-7 days, or 14 days, or 1-2 days in major exercises (if I didnt butcher the translation), and they can be recalled four times in 8 years after service. Since there is so many options, I am kinda lost in what decides when they/which units train for 5 and when for 14 days.
The Ham Kuang exercises aren’t just all propaganda, I’m sure a lot are especially when shown to the media but some parts also aren’t, to say it’s all propaganda is just wrong.You know nothing about ROC politics and why the “exercise” was designed the way it is.
im not talking about that as much but other parts, I haven’t seen them do red vs blue so I can’t speak on thatNot really. They literally gave Blue Force infinite respawn so that it could win on paper…
These so called reservists are not much a threat in open fields but are going to be a big problem in dense urban environments. China probably doesn't want to do grozny or bakhmut on taiwan but it might not have a choice if DPP wants to fight to the end.Taiwanese military operates a three-tier mobilization system, with the lowest tier consisting of 18 local reserve brigades, each with a 4,000 personnel.
Before 2021, each brigade had only a shocking 24 full-time personnel and conducted "training" just once every two years, lasting 5-7 days (in reality, possibly only 3 days, with little to no actual training). After the reserve reforms, by 2024, the number of full-time personnel in each brigade is expected to increase to 200, aiming to raise the full-time ratio to 5%, while reservists will undergo 14 days of annual training. But for now, the reform has taken it back a little bit, 14 days of training every two years.
The second-tier "Basic Training Infantry Brigades" aren't much better either. True to their name, they essentially serve as training centers during peacetime, handling military instruction for both active-duty and reserve personnel—in reality, they're just a huge boot camps.
There are no infantrymen in Grozny and Bakhmut who only served 4 months to one year of very low-intensity military service a few years ago and then only train for 14 days every two years.These so called reservists are not much a threat in open fields but are going to be a big problem in dense urban environments. China probably doesn't want to do grozny or bakhmut on taiwan but it might not have a choice if DPP wants to fight to the end.
You don't need much training to occasionally pop out of a window and shoot an RPG. Or run towards a tank and lob a grenade like how hamas does it in Gaza.There are no infantrymen in Grozny and Bakhmut who only served 4 months to one year of very low-intensity military service a few years ago and then only train for 14 days every two years.