News Analysis
Russia’s disastrous war in Ukraine has held obvious lessons for China when contemplating an armed attack against Taiwan. At the same time, Taiwan should be drawing important examples of a small state deterring, defending—and even defeating—a larger power.
The answer lies in something called “asymmetric warfare,” and Taipei has been keen to adopt this concept to its unique situation. In Taiwan’s case, this means rejecting Taiwan’s traditional defense strategy of attrition warfare, which is based on the “American approach to warfare,” particularly the ability “to project power over great distances and to maximize mobility and networks to take the fight to the enemy with overwhelming superiority,” according to Drew Thompson, a visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
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