I mean, funny take and all. But frankly we need to encourage Taiwan to invest less in hard-to-sustain prestige weapon systems and more in cost-effective A2/AD and asymetric systems: more infantry training, prepare for playing the I side of COIN, more mines, more missiles, etc. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1438592970803056646 …
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It's a value added question, though. If the PRC has taken the step of deciding on attempting an armed intervention, it means something has gone *drastically* wrong within the Politburo and they're going all in. There's very little added costs will change.
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And in that case, A2/AD, mines, missiles and infantry training are going to do a lot more to make any US intervention in the conflict likely to succeed (by there being a military presence we can support there, rather than a fait accompli) than prestige systems.
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Because those systems both reinforce the security umbrella, but also raise the cost of intervention with or without it. It's, in essence, a deterrence two-fer.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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