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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Which in turn, both reinforces the security umbrella - because it's harder to create that ideal fait accompli - and in the event deterrence fails AND we decide to intervene anyway, are the sort of systems we'd get a lot of value out of.
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IMO the umbrella is first and foremost nuclear. It's the same factor as was at play in Europe during the Cold War, where the USSR never didn't have a dominant conventional position. Our conventional forces were purely there to stop a smash and grab.
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Deterrence and Denial are sometimes aligned, and sometimes opposed
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