Taiwan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Is this real?
What's the weather report in hell today?
Did someone discover a species of porcine flying creature?
It really isn't so surprising when you think about it. Annette Lu was Vice President during the early 2000s, when ROCAF and ROCN (to a minor extent) held massive advantage to their PRC counterpart. This is not to mention the overwhelming superiority of US military to the PLA. Times, to say the least, have changed. An opportunist like Annette Lu is anything but stupid.
I didn’t realize she moderated her stance nowadays. My idea of her is still from that period where she is considered worse hanjian than even CSB himself.
I don’t think what she said is actually too unreasonable, of course not all of it would be acceptable to the PRC government, but she’s right you cannot just hide behind Americans.
Good that I waited until now to post, because we see what is happening in Ukraine, what happens when you trust Americans too much. Tsai must have a 747 fueled up and ready to go to LAX after this
Lessons from a certain current conflict for a certain future conflict:
1. Never allow social media to broadcast the opponent's side of the message and allow them to control the narrative. Cut the fiber optics and impose a total media blackout so that your side controls the narrative.
2. An accurate missile first strike is devastating, demoralizing and almost impossible to stop.
3. Air and missile forces are sufficient to open the conflict. Ground troops come in to exploit openings, they don't need to make the opening themselves. This means that the ground troops will mostly be shooting retreaters or encircling, rather than going up against entrenched defenses, and vastly reduces casualties.
1. Never allow social media to broadcast the opponent's side of the message and allow them to control the narrative. Cut the fiber optics and impose a total media blackout so that your side controls the narrative.
2. An accurate missile first strike is devastating, demoralizing and almost impossible to stop.
3. Air and missile forces are sufficient to open the conflict. Ground troops come in to exploit openings, they don't need to make the opening themselves. This means that the ground troops will mostly be shooting retreaters or encircling, rather than going up against entrenched defenses, and vastly reduces casualties.
Agree completely.
Apart from the military lessons, China can also assess
1. The level of reactions from Western governments. Most sanctions so far are quite toothless; they are not touching Russian gas
2. Gauge the willingness of the US to actually bleed for its allies. So far it seems that the US is not willing to bleed for its allies.
3. Study how the Russians will pacify the occupied Ukranian areas and population. Post-war reconstruction is not often talked about in Chinese circles, perhaps this conflict will provide some clues and lessons on how to govern a potentially hostile but culturally congruent population.
On the matter of #3, the CPC would already have archives of how to do this from the formation of the PRC when the propaganda dept. sent cadres and other personnel to demobilize and re-integrate the captured KMT and their supporting populace.
Not just the US but Japan, South Korea, and so on too.
If NATO won’t commit because heating German and Italian houses is too important, you must find the most important supply to cut off to Americans…
So you invade in November, tell the world that any intervention will disrupt the supply of big screen TVs for Super Bowl time, and ta-da Americans stay at home, give Patrick Mahomes a Friendship medal for all the Chinese lives he saved.
So you invade in November, tell the world that any intervention will disrupt the supply of big screen TVs for Super Bowl time, and ta-da Americans stay at home, give Patrick Mahomes a Friendship medal for all the Chinese lives he saved.