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White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan | General Mick Ryan
Hidden Forces
The Strategic Approach to Taiwan's Defense
The overall defense concept is far more sophisticated than a few mines and a few autonomous systems. It seeks to balance these deterrence pre-war war imperatives, whilst really ensuring the Chinese can't lodge. And if they lodge, the lodgement is defeated. The four key phases of the war are force protection, defeat the Chinese in all the toral battle, then fight them in the beachhead battle. Then there's the homeland defense battle where you have a nation in arms - kind of like the territorial defense forces Ukrainians have. For me, they make a lot of sense; I think other countries should look at it quite seriously.
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