PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

tygyg1111

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The DPP, which currently governs Taiwan, is at its core an organization and ideology founded upon a victimhood narrative: "We're not Chinese, we were colonized by the Chinese in 1949. They oppressed us!"

People who embrace such victimhood narratives tend to defer major decisions to others or to fate.

You can't possibly expect these bitches to believe in personal accountability, can you? ;)
Waiting for them to go full circle

2049:

DPP supporter: "My family is of Dutch Chinese lineage, since 1568 1949"
 

Randomuser

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The DPP, which currently governs Taiwan, is at its core an organization and ideology founded upon a victimhood narrative: "We're not Chinese, we were colonized by the Chinese in 1949. They oppressed us!"

People who embrace such victimhood narratives tend to defer major decisions to others or to fate.

You can't possibly expect these bitches to believe in personal accountability, can you? ;)
These guys were DEI and WOKE before it was even cool man
 

GulfLander

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Biggest troll move…

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"The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) conducted a series of combat readiness patrols and military drills from the Chinese New Year's Eve (Jan. 28) to the Lantern Festival (Feb. 12), during which the PLA servicemen not only completed their missions, but also extended festive greetings to compatriots on a Taiwan military vessel."
 

00CuriousObserver

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Taiwan contingency milestones that we should expect to see, by John Culver:

What major milestones must the PLA check off to satisfy Xi, their tough task master, that it has fulfilled the physical requirements to be capable of “
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”, if ordered?
  • Amphibious lift and over-beach operations. The PLA has built the world’s biggest navy in terms of ship numbers, including some large amphibious vessels. It may have sufficient lift for a lodgement, but it does not have the large surplus it would need to mitigate combat losses. It could produce large numbers of more expendable vessels to land tanks or troops, known as LSTs and LSMs, and produce the newly identified bridging ships in large numbers.
  • Large scale training including key civilian assets. The PLA conducts periodic air, naval, and missile drills to demonstrate its displeasure, but it has so far not conducted a realistic exercise that incorporates all the forces that would be involved in a major amphibious or blockade campaign. Joint operations appear to remain a weak point, including complex operations that include Coast Guard, Navy, and civilian assets.
  • Large scale mobilisation exercises. For the Communist Party, war is an all-of-regime operation, including mass civilian mobilisation and information operations. It has stepped up urban air defence drills, but has not conducted realistic mobilisation exercises to simulate wartime conditions, especially distributed military operations from civilian ports and airfields.
  • Three superiorities: Information, air, and sea dominance. The PLA has set these conditions as requirements for success in any operations against an advanced adversary like the United States. Arguably, it has made significant gains in air and sea dominance through the sheer scale and lethality of its missile, air, and anti-ship forces, but each requires complex target detection in a hostile electromagnetic environment. Information dominance entails not only disrupting enemy communication but ensuring PLA command and control throughout the conflict. A key sign would be expanded space launches and operations including proliferated Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations similar to Starlink, and counterspace operations to hold Taiwan and US communications at risk.


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