Everyone loves a short, sharp war. They end on time, are won decisively, and provide tight narrative completion for the stories we want to tell. Among military commanders, planners, and theorists, this often manifests itself in the quest for the decisive battle—one that will inflict such a stunning defeat on the enemy that its will
FORWARD DEFENSE STRATEGY PAPER LAUNCH Download PDF The United States faces an increasingly challenging international security environment with ongoing conflicts in Europe and the Middle East. Tensions are also rising across the Taiwan Strait. With Xi Jinping charging his military to give him the ability to invade Taiwan by 2027, US and allied defense strategists
ORIGINAL SOURCE On December 1, IPSI/GCH nonresident senior fellow Dexter Tiff Roberts was quoted in Swedish business journal Dagens Industri regarding a recent poll showing most Chinese believe the US and China will fall into armed conflict over Taiwan in the next five years. On November 30, Roberts was quoted in another Dagens Industri article
download pdf Executive summary The potential for a conflict over Taiwan is increasing due to China’s nuclear and conventional military buildup and the threat of two simultaneous conflicts with China and Russia, which would severely stress the ability of US and allied conventional forces to win in both theaters. Nuclear weapons will cast a long
As the world confronts Russia’s continued war against Ukraine, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) increasing maritime aggressions, and an ever-growing North Korean nuclear arsenal, the Indo-Pacific region appears to be at an inflection point that will shape Taiwan’s status both regionally and internationally. All these issues and more have kept a spotlight on Taiwan,
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has launched many useful comparisons about how Ukraine’s efforts to survive and repel Russian forces might be applicable to Taiwan’s defense against a potential attack by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Taiwan and its partners, for example, could directly apply a number of military and economic statecraft lessons against