Everyone in these comments is a retired 5 star general. How lucky of Taiwan to have all these experienced combat planners.

Omg how I missed reading comments from the world's finest military advisors.

It’s crazy that in his age he’s that dialed into modern strategy… that guy has been around 3 times as long as me, but only has so much knowledge it’s incredible.

If there is one thing I learn about war , it's that war is extremely unpredictable

The problems of a full scale invasion of Taiwan is well known, but a maritime blockade of Taiwanese ports is somewhat more complicated. It will most likely not have a full military response by the US, but equally the US would not be able to supply Taiwan either. How long could Taiwan survive such a siege?

Hey, technically, the civil war started in 1946 didn't end, there wasn't a ceasefire agreement, the civil war was simply paused by the Korean War and Korean War didn't end either.

Taiwan needs to talk to the Swiss about their tunnels

Let's be honest, a major portion of Taiwan's strategy for dealing with China in the event of an invasion involves drawing the United States into the conflict.

I really agree. Distributed network warfare demands many more distributable, expendable and networkable delivery systems that can easily pick up and move to different locations.

I hope Taiwan never gets invaded. The free world stands with you.

Showing ones strength to an adversary and having it well known is the key to any deterrence. Many wars including much of WW2 would never have happened if the attacking side really knew what they were up against.

"Relying on allies to come to their aid", meanwhile those allies are building their own chip manufacturing plants so that they don't rely on Taiwan anymore....

It doesn’t take much to interrupt the ship to shore movement. Once that happens the elements on the far shore are in deep trouble.

Why mankind still sees war as an option is beyond my comprehension. 😔

A good video to recommend after I just booked a flight to Taipei 😅

I like how Taiwanese admiral left sea drones part out. Which can become the most painful point during the warfare. This can disrupt supply and blockade military forces at no cost. Ukrainian war showed the effectiveness of that weapon.

Taiwan's strategy is to rely on the US, that's it lol

台湾有事は日本有事

dang it...why did they give it away?

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that unmanned aerial weapons, MANPADS and drones will play a far more significant part in any future conflicts. Taiwan should be building up these resources

China, just leave the island alone... we're all happy with peace

The trust is, Taiwan alone can never defend against China, China is just 10x bigger and has more resources. USA may help in a normal war, but in a long term seige, No way.

I hope the peace can continue 🙏

... we should maybe not share this with China ...😂

they need more modern submarines as well

The island of Taiwan's secret weapon strategy is actually the rumbling of over 600,000 Colossal Titans.

Chinese: write that down write that down

You need anti ship wall and air defense and drone defense. Long range anti ship and artillery .

Being an island was a blessing in 1949 but not in 2023 since the island’s survival depends on US transports to sustain the resistance. In all war game scenarios US & allies were not able to keep Taiwanese sea lanes open without directly attacking assets on the mainland and risk starting WW3. Unlike Ukraine, supplying Taiwan would be nearly impossible once the war breaks out.

Invasion😂 ,please learn the history of China, Taiwan was separated from mainland China due to civil war, and the civil war has not end😢

We only care about the semiconductor industry. Move Taiwanese semiconductor companies to the US and leave the island alone.

...no amount deterrence would work if China really decide to go for it.

informative! great production 👏👏

Why are we pretending Taiwan isnt part of china. Every single person here, your government only recognizes one china.

Funny, those Chinese people living in Taiwan calling themeselves Taiwanese are not even indigenous to the island.

Taiwan needs lots of torpedos and anti ship missiles and maybe even seamines

I always thought they used the dam doomsday strategy to protect themselves

cheapest solutions are Best Solutions. Cheap anti ship Drones & Manpads can do enormous damage to PLA, PLAN efforts to takeover without collateral damages. Make this war very hard & expensive for CCP with body bags going back into Mainland

if nato and five eyes was unable to do anything when an entirely sovereign nation (ukraine ) was invaded. they are going to do nothing when a country recognised only by 13 coutries get invaded.

It's funny to see ppl discussing various military strategies to deter China's unification of Taiwan in the comment section, when NATO doesn't have the ball to send a single soldier to fight Russia, a much weaker opponent than China

Taiwan 🇹🇼 will never renounce the right to annihilate China if it's invaded.

Usually, when you talk to a Taiwanese, they will automatically assume US soldiers are their own trained dogs, who will jump in at the first place whenever PLA invade, and defend taiwan like their grandma's house. Do you agree their perspectives?😀

no one will come to taiwans aid

How can the U.S. refuse to recognize Puerto Rico as a soveriegn nation, but they do for Taiwan?

don't forget that Japan is almost finished establishing its 'Missile Wall' in North-East of Taiwan

I wonder if the Chinese are watching this and taking notes 😂

how do you get that much information🙃

In Taiwan's case, every single million in their defense budget is completely justified

When PRC attack, ROC must show they can hold the island on its own during the early stage of the fight, if not USA may also bomb TSMC facilities to prevent PRC get hold of the facilities. Potentially getting bomb by both enemy and friend. What a tough position.

may be?..... Taiwan have zero against China. I repeat. ZERO

Spot on... He's absolutely right. Many , small makes overwhelming very much more difficult.

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As long as there is a need to defend one's self or one's country, we are not civilized yet.

IF THE US TOOK PUERTO RICO AND VIRGIN ISLANDS AS ITS TERRITORY, THEN WHAT GIVES US THE RIGHT TO QUESTION CHINA ABOUT TIAWAN????!!!!!

If you play rise of nations you know that Taiwan could just build artillery, destroyers and submarines 🤣

Why not both? As we shift our focus to the pacific, we should be able to access hundreds of billions in more funding to put towards taiwans defense.

When did ever communists care about casulaties?

Taiwan: Why thank you WSJ, I guess we die now.

PLA does not need to take the entire Taiwan. What stopped them from partitioning the island?

China will never attack Taiwan unless one of the following 1 Taiwan declares referendum on independence 2 develope its own nuclear program 3 external forces to assist in the island independence. ... if none of that... stay clam and carry on

Does the ‘Ireland’? Really?

i don't think taiwanese has the determination to perform guerrilla warfare or something like that. the biggest obstacle to china is always the international reaction, not taiwan itself

The Wall Street Journal clearly cares more about the Taiwanese than the Americans in Hawaii.

What will US do ?

If u think Taiwan is independent then why Taiwanese speak Chinese and write in Chinese

Taiwan needs to hide weapon assets in shipping containers. Very hard to pick out which to destroy if there are tens of thousands of them.

The fact most of the PRC army would have to swim 100 miles to eastern Taiwan because of an almost total lack of landing craft would perhaps would be a big block to Chinese success.

Since when did WSJ journalists become war experts on island invasion half a world away?? 😆

Just let the guys speak in their native language and then use an English dub or something.

Lee is basically describing the porcupine strategy and it's pretty much the consensus of military experts now. There is however still a political dimension: shiny F-16s falling out of the sky are more potent and recognizable symbols of American friendship than generic rocket launchers.

We are currently seeing in Ukraine how anti-ship missiles can be a cheap, powerful deterrent against navies. The Russian Black Sea fleet won't come within 150 km of the Ukrainian controlled coast.

theyre doing a better job than hawaii did i guess

This is so scary Gosh......

If the strategy is outdated, the US can help them upgrade their weapons.

As a Taiwan citizen, we discuss more about whether the US will come to assist us, rather than how we can keep the invasion from happening or make it impossible. I think this video provides a great insight on how we can defend ourselves against china. This is more important than thinking about the US’s aid, since we can not change US’s decision effectively, but we can change the strategy and mindset to make Taiwan undefeated.

Both Taiwan and PRC never said they stop the civil war. So ‘invade’ is not precise, continue attacking is better

Always be prepared, but I think China learned it's lesson in the 1950's to not invade Taiwan.

What a wildly different world we would live in IF Taiwan was in control of the mainland.

There a good reason why the US and her allies in the region are making a new island defensive chain system. The goal of it to basically dismantle the China navy during it invasion. Making China force to choose between striking at a American carrier strike force or the defensive front that can do not only cripple but has the potential to stop the invasion with short range strikes onto it fleet.

Good like maintaining supplies lines across 100 miles of open ocean. Putin has his hands full driving down the highway a few miles.

Dude, stop doing provocation and write a better news

Because a financial newspaper makes for such a great military strategist. There are only so many ways to protect an island, and the only examples we have to work with date from WW2.

The war in Ukraine really showed how far war has gone in terms of technology. With the drones, hypersonic missiles, etc. Taiwan must take great care not to underestimate its opponent here.

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It's a failed strategy to put this on KZfaq...

Even small army can defeat bigger army by right plan and technology.

we all have to stop chinese aggression

Taiwan is one province of China. The people live there also came from mainland of China.

But the retired admiral is Chinese too. And China has not attacked anyone. They are all Chinese mate. And who has approximately 800 military bases around the world? Get real.

What if Chinese fire 1000+ missiles at once.

I’m afraid that this isn’t going to be a easy feet for China. China has a military budget of 293 billion dollars with 2,510,000 military personnels while a 2023 US-led coalition currently have a military budget of 1,481 billion dollars ($1.48 trillion) with 20,594,361 military personnels. United States have 8 times more total troops with 5 times the military budget. Would be extremely hard for China to catch up to those types of numbers. Invasion wars are never a easy thing to accomplish, it’s rather hard to impossible I say. If somehow in a miracle China accomplishes this then China would go from being broke back to being officially whole again. But the likelihood of China being successful on taking Taiwan is between impossible and possible seeing that the Chinese would get outnumbered and defeated. But hey, I don’t claim myself to be a military expert I just based it on what I’m seeing in Ukraine and the potential firepowers involved in this Taiwan conflict.

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China and Taiwan Peaceful Reunification will be the best outcome for every person of Chinese descent.

Ignore the trolls, every year the number of people in China who believes Taiwan is not part of China increases. I lived in Beijing until 2018, and most people then were "nationalistic" on this matter. Ever since I left practically all Chinese I talk to uses VPN and talks very openly about "Taiwan is already an independent country without recognition" and jokes about "I would rather have Taiwan passport than China passport". My prediction is Taiwan (as an independent nation) is going to outlive the PRC, and the next government of China will most likely give up this issue.

So a peaceful reunion is not on the table? Don't forget there are no peace agreements nor cease-fire negotiations between the mainland and TW. There should be a reason why the mainland army still keeps its name as the "People's Liberation Army".

There is no Taiwan. That's China. Dig the history!

I am following Kings & Generals' Pacific campaign that was fought between Japan and the Allies. It's mind boggling how many amphibious assaults both sides conducted throughout the campaign. And in between those assaults, you have the successful ones, the not-so-successful ones, and the failed ones. Then there were so many battles fought just to resupply the armies already landed. From the Japanese side, you have the early 1942 campaigns where they conducted so many amphibious landings all around the Pacific - from Philippines, to Malaya, to Dutch East Indies, Guam, Wake, and so on. And then the US did the same from Guadacanal to the Pacific islands, all through Iwojima and Okinawa. And that's just the Pacific campaign - there were amphibious operations done in the European theater too by the Allies - the North African landing, the Sicilian landing, the South France landing, and of course the famed Normandy landing. Even Germany conducted some amphibious assault in their invasion of Norway and the airborne operations of Cretan assault. The amount of experience accumulated by not just the US but Japan and other belligerents in amphibious assaults were immense. Meanwhile, China has conducted 0 amphibious assault in modern time. Can they excel in their first try by just learning from military history? If the generals and its officers were first rate students and implementers of those studies, maybe?

The US military will never directly engage the PLA.. exactly how they're not engaging Russian military in Ukraine.. seems what ever China does, they will dominate Taiwan. If not at first physically occupied on the ground, given enough time economically choking all goods in/out of the island, the Taiwanese will have no choice but to completely surrender

A2AD doesn't work for submarines, stealth bombers, and small unmanned ships.

Quick correction, you forgot Taiwan's million strong reserve force at 1:28