Kool Man! always fun when peeps are flying around in their shiny jet aircraft, "Lets Go Flying Dudes"!
this really is a good thing, really good, and it does provide us with much food for thought...
Taiwan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Kool Man! always fun when peeps are flying around in their shiny jet aircraft, "Lets Go Flying Dudes"!
this really is a good thing, really good, and it does provide us with much food for thought...
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If they were all flying for routine training and patrols I did agree with you there...............
MwRYum
Major
I came across this during my reading this morning. I'm not sure what to make of this. It came from a blog of "the foreign policy".
It is alarming to hear a modern military is only running on 80% of the personnel needed. It looks like scaremongering to elicit a response from ROC government. But there again, it could be that ROC has a recruitment problem!?
Taiwan’s Military Is a Hollow Shell
The end of conscription has left the army critically undermanned.
BY | FEBRUARY 15, 2020, 11:04 PM
It is alarming to hear a modern military is only running on 80% of the personnel needed. It looks like scaremongering to elicit a response from ROC government. But there again, it could be that ROC has a recruitment problem!?
Taiwan’s Military Is a Hollow Shell
The end of conscription has left the army critically undermanned.
BY | FEBRUARY 15, 2020, 11:04 PM
That's not surprising. Taiwan's National Chengchi University conducts annual national security surveys and surprisingly even though majority of Taiwanese think other Taiwanese will resist a Chinese invasion, but only about 10% said they will resist personally. The % of people that said they either escape from Taiwan, hide, surrender or accept the situation is about 45-50%.
Figures, they all know its a lost cause. Its better to let someone fight and die for a lost cause. Meanwhile, you can live by runing away, hide or accept!
It doesn't sound like a nation to me. In other nations, they will fight and die for their land. Could it be that deep down, they know who they are?
Mr T
Senior Member
That's according to nationalist propaganda, not examples from history.
I can't think of a situation where anywhere near 50% of the population voluntarily took up arms against an invader. I'm not talking about a situation like the start of either of the world wars, where there was time for countries to mobilise their populations, I'm talking about during an invasion. Where the aggressor was a far larger country and the resisting state was small in comparison. Think about how Belgium and the Netherlands were overrun in a matter of days. Were civilians charging into German lines waiving lead pipes? No, they were hiding. Even France gave up without even trying to defend Paris.
The vast majority of civilians give in to the aggressors because they don't want to die. They don't like it but they accept it. It's a natural human reaction. I know that there's this myth about resistance groups - maybe fed by the French idea that everyone was part of the Resistance - but they're only ever a small number. 10% of the Taiwanese population would be over 2 million.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Tsk tsk... look what you did; you went and confused the foreigners and made it sound as if the ROC shows fighting spirit, then they can be admissible as a nation.
To put it clearly, the ROC is not a nation and will never be one for other reasons entirely, regardless of if 0% or 100% are willing to fight. They will never be one because they live on Chinese soil and the notion faces deathly opposition from 1.4 billion Chinese people who make up the next global superpower.