From Shi Xiaowei really? he's ex-ROCAF and ROCAF guys tend to be pretty ideologically reliable. Shilao is a member of so he might have private KMT connections.
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I was being facetious.
Good time to revive the age old KMT tradition of forced conscription.
Conscripted troops rushed into battle with little training has been historically crap and even more so today though. AFU territorial defence troops are liable to been penetrated by Russians shock troops when holding the line and suffer heavy casualties and likewise Russian conscripts are rubbish at holding the line in Kursk right now. And both of those are still higher quality than ROC's reserves which barely get any training during their initial 4 month/1 year conscription period.
If you want a strong reserve for mobilisation in time of war the society has to be ideologically motivated to defend their country. Whatever other faults they have that's one thing Ukrainians have in spade. ROC does not because of crap like:
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Convert their "1450 internet army" from "keyboard warriors" to "boots-on-the-ground" would certainly fulfill the "ideologically motivated" requirement, if not also expediently at that.
Besides, they've "3 million black bear army" ("300萬黑熊軍"), or if to loosen the "ideologically motivated" requirement, they've a poll of 8.17 million to draw reserves from...if you cast the net even wider, "23 million gyokusai" ("2300萬總玉碎") have been repeatedly advocated by the pan-green type.
All in all, it'd only make things easier for the PLA in setting up Rules of Engagement, such as loosen the restriction in applying thermobaric weapons in the field...
Honestly speaking how would you even train an army designed to hold against a direct PLA assault?
Look at the modern human + drone wave tactics used by Ukraine in Kursk, which essentially all use Chinese drones. It's hard for even the battle hardened and several times more China-backed Russian army to hold. AFU stockpiles 1000s of drones, then unleash them all at once in 1 sector. Then they send so many men in on mobile vehicles that there's not enough counterfire to stop them. And then men once they see something immediately phone in GMLRS attacks. PLA can play the meat assault game even better, since they have much more survivable vehicles, and also way more firepower to call on from the back and in the skies.
Imo 95% of 2024s era military units will just break cohesion and run or surrender if they get directly ground offensived by PLAGF.
Imagine FPVs in groups of 1000s keep coming every few minutes for hours on end. And PLA doesn't need Mykolas in the rear driving them. It's likely they will use an AI that camera recognizes anything "human shaped" in a designated area and automatically dives on them. Then if your squad has anything big ticket at all like a himars, a towed artillery, even just a tank or APC, you get lobbed at by guided rockets or even DF16.
Without your country having similar low altitude economy production power as China so they can throw matching numbers of bullshit back, you're basically Zulu warriors staring at British gunlines. You'd only stand your ground if you were a true fanatic.
Getting dragged into large scale ground combat with PLA is an instant loss condition.
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I think the Taiwan internet warriors think upvotes on reddit are as effective as actual weapons.
MwRYum
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We only need them to think they got a chance and given their typical sh*tposting online, that's actually the easiest part.
There's been a crash of Mirage 2000, the pilot is "fine".
I put fine in quotes because while he's physically fine his rescue was something else. After being spotted and picked up by rescue helicopter the wrench on the helicopter failed and the pilot and rescue diver was only pulled half way up into the helicopter. They veto'd the plan for the helicopter to fly them directly to Hsinchu while they hang underneath, instead the helicopter lowered them to near the sea and they jumped into the water and was picked up by a waiting rescue boat. Then another helicopter was called but the boat that picked them up was too small for them to attempt to get the pilot into the rescue harness, so it was suggested to the pilot for him to swim to a bigger boat that was approaching and then try the 2nd helicopter again. Pilot suggested at this point to just never mind the helicopter and get him to a hospital by boat.
Worth noting flight hour for this pilot: he graduated from flight school in 2016, in the 8 years between then and now he racked up 509 hours on Mirage 2000, or about 64 hours a year.
I put fine in quotes because while he's physically fine his rescue was something else. After being spotted and picked up by rescue helicopter the wrench on the helicopter failed and the pilot and rescue diver was only pulled half way up into the helicopter. They veto'd the plan for the helicopter to fly them directly to Hsinchu while they hang underneath, instead the helicopter lowered them to near the sea and they jumped into the water and was picked up by a waiting rescue boat. Then another helicopter was called but the boat that picked them up was too small for them to attempt to get the pilot into the rescue harness, so it was suggested to the pilot for him to swim to a bigger boat that was approaching and then try the 2nd helicopter again. Pilot suggested at this point to just never mind the helicopter and get him to a hospital by boat.
Worth noting flight hour for this pilot: he graduated from flight school in 2016, in the 8 years between then and now he racked up 509 hours on Mirage 2000, or about 64 hours a year.
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