Monday, December 20, 2021

This Is How Taiwan's 'SEALs' Will Try To Hold Off A Chinese Invasion

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen reviews the Taiwanese army's 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, September 2016. Taiwan's Presidential Office  

Business Insider: Taiwan's 'SEALs' would be on the frontline of a war with China. Here's how they'd try to hold off an invasion. 

* China has ramped up its pressure on Taiwan, vowing to reabsorb what it views as a breakaway province. 

* If China did invade, Taiwan would be facing a technologically and numerically superior military. 

* Taiwan's special-operations units, especially the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, would be on the frontline. 

The Chinese military ramped up its shows of force around Taiwan in October. 

In just a few days, more than 150 fighter jets and bombers flew into the air-defense identification zone that Taiwan has declared around its territory in what was seen as an attempt to intimidate Taipei and the Western countries supporting the island, which Beijing considers a breakaway province. 

If China did invade Taiwan, Taipei would be facing a technologically and numerically superior military. But as the defending force, Taiwan's military would still have an advantage over the invaders.  

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WNU Editor: Taiwan will need more than its SEALs to deter any massive Chinese invasion.

2 comments:

fazman said...

4 to 1 advantage required by invader

Anonymous said...

3 to 1 to attempt

6 to 1 to overrun

Those are the usual rules. Keyword is usual.

To disprove a theorem, you need to come up with one concrete example to disprove it.

Here goes


Battle of France 1940

German division: 141
Allied divisions: 135


Force ratio was 1.0444444444...