Bret Devereaux

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 …

My thinking towards prestige weapons systems is more towards the fact that the defense of Taiwan is almost entirely down to the degree to which they are publicly under our security umbrella. Prestige system sales are a strong signal that they are covered.

A Taiwan which feels itself out of our umbrella will likely make a deal with the PRC, they won't fight it out. No point turning your country into a rubble strewn battlefield for little gain in the long run.