Taiwan’s annual military drills this year will include “kill zone” drills at sea to break the blockade and simulate a scenario in which China suddenly turns its regular drills around the island into actual attacks, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
China considers democratically governed Taiwan its territory and has held regular drills around the island for the past four years in an effort to pressure Taipei to accept Beijing’s sovereignty claims despite Taiwan’s strong opposition.
Taiwan started its main annual Han Kuang exercise this month with a tabletop exercise, which was extended from the usual five to eight days to take into account the number of scenarios to be included, followed by live combat exercises in July, the country’s defense ministry said.
Dong Zhixing, director of the Joint Operations Planning Department of the Ministry of National Defense, said at a press conference that the exercise will practice how to respond quickly to a Chinese exercise that suddenly turns into an attack. Considering the regularity of the exercise, military planners have begun to worry about this. a little.
How different branches of the armed forces can mount a coordinated response to China’s blockade will be another focus, Dong said.
He added that the exercise would integrate the navy, air force and coast guard, shore-based anti-ship weapons and drones to establish an “attack and kill chain” at sea.
“also, [we will] Tung Chee Hwa said, “Use the navy, air force, and coast guard ships to jointly carry out escort operations” to ensure that the connection between the sea and the air with the outside world remains smooth.
Last April, China carried out precision strikes and blockades during a large-scale military exercise around Taiwan.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago, Taiwan has been looking to see what lessons it can learn and incorporate into its own exercises, particularly how the much smaller Ukrainian military could fend off the much larger Russian force.
Tong said that content, along with lessons learned from the war in Gaza, will appear again this year.
Dong said that for both conflicts, officials are considering the use of psychological warfare and asymmetric operations, but did not explain specifically how these methods would be used in the exercises.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen advocates the concept of “asymmetric warfare”, making its military much smaller and more mobile than China’s, making it more difficult to use vehicle-mounted missiles and drones to attack.
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