In recent days, we have written a lot of content related to the Taiwan Strait, and we have also seen many people asking, as another protagonist in the possible future conflicts in the Taiwan Strait, what is the real strength of the Taiwan army, after all, there are many passages about the Taiwan army in peacetime, but the actual scale, deployment, and mobilization ability of the Taiwan army are really introduced.
Purely in terms of scale, the Taiwan military is still quite impressive, and the actual establishment, deployment, and other related situations of the Taiwan military are open, clear, and queryable like those of Western countries. The total number of posts in the Taiwan military has been reduced from about 600,000 at the end of the last century to 215,000, of which the number of combat troops actually in training has been greatly changed to 188,000, including the 100,000-strong army, the 41,000-strong navy and the 35,000-strong air force.
However, after all, there is such a realistic combat opponent, although the strength of the army on the island is quite high, but the place where the island needs to deploy defense is also large, so these 210,000 people are simply unusable, so the Taiwan army has developed a very genius method - a super-scale reserve mobilization system; the mobilization system We all know that many countries will have this kind of thing, we also have the saying that reserve troops, under special circumstances, veterans will be recalled, but the mobilization system of the Taiwan army is outrageous. He was unrealistically massive in scale.
According to the official propaganda materials of Taiwan's defense department, the total number of reserve soldiers on the island is 2.38 million. Coupled with the current 215,000 active duty, the total theoretical post of the Taiwan army after a week of mobilization will reach 2.6 million; what is this concept, india, which is not much, there are 1.455 million active duty troops in the whole army, which can mobilize 1.155 million reserves, a total of almost 2.61 million people, considering the statistical error, it can be said to be comparable; the total population of the island is only 23.4 million, and it can raise an army about the same size as India with a population of 1.3 billion.
Of course, from this number alone, many people may still have no feelings, so let's take a direct example of a practical case, the Taiwan 6Th Army, which is responsible for the defense of Taipei New Taipei and other areas in northern Taiwan, is the absolute main force of the Taiwan Army at present, and it is also the largest of the three major group armies of the Taiwan Army. The total number of posts is almost 35,000; and once the PLA launches a strait combat operation and the Taiwan army mobilizes, then this regiment will, through mobilization, add 1 strike brigade, 10 B reserve brigades, and 8 C reserve brigades, plus the two gendarmerie brigades under its auspices, to increase the number of combat troops from 8 to 28 in one fell swoop, and the number of personnel will also increase from more than 30,000 to more than 200,000; the number of personnel will increase by nearly 4 times, and the personnel will be more than 5 times; and the scale of our army's group army will be expanded from the size of a group army of our army to the size of a theater of our army in one fell swoop.
From a group army directly expanded into a war zone, people are the best to find, after all, it is an old tradition to catch Zhuang Ding, there are more than 2 million reserve soldiers on the island according to the saying, that from Taipei, New Taipei and these places to drag some adult men who have been trained for a week every year to dig trenches and squat tunnels is of course not much of a problem, although the performance is not necessarily better than the students who have just completed the university entrance military training on our side (it is better than some people have more live-fire experience).
What about equipment? The island itself does not have the ability to manufacture tanks and artillery (armored vehicles can rub clouded leopards), and the foreign equipment purchased each time is also limited in quantity, and the establishment of the existing standing brigade-level units is already very good, like the Tiger Army troops are still using the old light Tank of the 50s that are bigger than Grandpa, where to dig the guns of the B and C reserve brigades? There is no need to ask where to find the car, and the Taiwan army originally did not expect them to be able to move; but so many reserve brigades always have so many guns, where to find so many guns, we are confused for the time being, we can't always go to the central mountains to cut bamboo to make bamboo guns, right? Or do you want 2 people to share a gun, one person to hold the gun and one person to carry the magazine?
This stuff is still the main equipment in active service, and the Taiwan army has so many heavy equipment to arm and mobilize the troops
In addition, how to solve the problem for officers; the A-type reserve brigade is not a big problem, it was originally a newly trained infantry brigade, the officers and non-commissioned officers are all in line, and the big head soldiers are filled; the officers and non-commissioned officers of the B-type infantry brigade will have to transfer instructors and cadets from the military academy, and you expect these people to be able to effectively command the troops, then I am a little afraid to think; as for the C reserve brigade, it is even more outrageous, the whole brigade has only a handful of active officers, and the remaining 90% of the personnel all rely on temporary recruitment to fill the shelves, to put it badly, The militias in the country have not eaten to this point.
However, what is the total number of such fancy so-called mobilization troops of the Taiwan army? Answer: 54 brigades, 31 battalions and 50 independent companies, thinking about the countries in the world that can put together 54 brigades, it seems that there are not many countries in the world, the US military has to count the National Guard and the Marine Corps, the Russian army is barely strong enough to this number, and then count the Indian and our army, as well as the two brothers on the Korean Peninsula, one hand is enough; of course, the Taiwan army sometimes knows a little thing, and knows that it is useless to mobilize so many people into the troops, so the actual mobilization scale is still restrained, and after the mobilization is completed, The Taiwan military will probably have 210,000 + 770,000 people, in fact, less than 1 million, and the rest will undertake military service and civil defense tasks, although this is still very outrageous.