Taiwan’s Capacity to Defend Itself Against Chinese Missile Strikes

September 22, 2014 

Analysis Ian Easton with the northern Virginia-based 2049 Institute has published a very interest 77-page report entitled Able Archers: Taiwan Defense Strategy in an Age of Precision Strike. 

The report describes in some detail, using unclassified Chinese military publications as its main source, the Chinese military’s ability to strike Taiwan’s small number of military airfields and other high-priority targets using ballistic missiles, combat aircraft and other weapons systems, and the ability of the Taiwanese military to defend itself against this sort of massed attack from the mainland. 

Well researched and written. The report can be accessed here.