The Marine Corps’ new littoral regiments will be equipped with robot trucks carrying potent anti-ship missiles, but critics say the missiles won’t
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Cheap Giant Would Solve U.S. Marine Corps’ Transport Crisis
The Pentagon has awarded contracts to develop two types of heavy-lift planes that would use a phenomenon called “ground effect” to carry 100 tons of
Meet the Man Tasked With Laying the Groundwork for Taiwan ‘Unification’
Last week, Nikkei Asia reported that Wang Huning (王滬寧), a high-ranking member of China’s Politburo Standing Committee, has been given the “mission is
An Interview With a Taiwanese Conscript (Part One: Who’s The Enemy?)
Taiwan’s decision to extend compulsory military service from four months to one year, effective Jan. 1, 2024, has energized an existing debate over
Floating Sea Bases to Become Motherships for Robot Subs
The U.S. Navy is looking at engineering plans to turn its floating sea bases into platforms for launching and recovering huge underwater drones and
Taiwanese People Continue to Identify as Taiwanese, Over ‘Both Taiwanese and Chinese’
The Election Study Center at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University has released its annual survey results on political attitudes in Taiwan. They show
Former Deputy National Security Adviser Under Trump Says Xi Jinping ‘Changed the Game’ Over Taiwan
Matthew Pottinger, a deputy national security adviser under Trump, has said that China has “changed the game” under President Xi Jinping with its
U.S. to Put ‘Missile Marines’ on Japanese Island Next to Taiwan
Lying just 110 kilometers east of Taiwan, the rural Japanese island of Yonaguni is being militarized to strike at a theoretical Chinese invasion
Mad World: Global Flashpoints to Watch in 2023 in the Era of ‘Polycrisis’
Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University When 2022 began, there was trepidation about what might happen in at least ten regions. Topping most lists
Taiwan’s E-2 Hawkeye — and ‘That’ Costly Pilot Error
Due to one pilot’s incredible mistake, Taiwan’s Air Force recently had to scrap one of its very expensive E-2 Hawkeye surveillance planes. The Air
U.K.’s ‘Golden Era’ With China Over. What About Relations With Taiwan?
Ahead of the U.K. government’s latest attempt to re-assess its relationship with China in a strategic review, and in the context of Prime Minister
What Did It Feel Like When Taiwan Broke Out of Authoritarian Restrictions?
The latest exhibition at The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) will be of interest to anyone interested in Taiwan’s relationship with authoritarianism.