Taiwan today launched the annual “Han Kuang” military exercises, the most important training of its armed forces, organized to prepare for a possible invasion by China, which considers the island a rebellious province and does not rule out the use of force to bring it back under its control. The maneuvers will last ten days, until August 14.
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This year’s edition aims to verify the armed forces’ ability to continue operating even under severe degradation of communications and the chain of command. For this reason, one of the central aspects of the training concerns the decentralization of operational decisions: field commanders will be called to react independently, without waiting for instructions from higher levels. The exercises will also introduce command procedures inspired by those used by the U.S. armed forces, including the so-called “backbriefs,” through which subordinates explain to superiors how they intend to carry out the received mission.
Operations began before dawn, when an underground command center in Taipei issued the order to start the exercises. In the coming days, prolonged defensive operations will be simulated, including live ammunition drills, naval blockade scenarios, and responses to so-called “gray zone tactics”, that is, military pressure actions that remain below the threshold of open conflict.
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The activities involve the entire territory of the island. Along a beach facing the Taiwan Strait, dozens of reservists trained with domestically produced assault rifles, while in the courtyard of a Taipei high school, other soldiers simulated loading mortars and using M4 carbines. In the south of the island, Navy units and a submarine were deployed, while tanks and other armored vehicles conducted maneuvers before dawn on the streets of Taichung. Among the vehicles used were the new U.S. M1A2T Abrams tanks, part of the 108 units purchased by Taipei in 2019 and progressively delivered in recent months.
The exercises also include the simulation of a Chinese naval blockade. Navy and Coast Guard ships will escort convoys destined to supply the island through eastern waters, while the capacity of mobilized plants to sustain production in wartime and the relocation of military and civilian facilities will be tested.
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