The United States has made further progress on the Taiwan Strait issue, and the number of US troops in Taiwan will be increased by another three times, in a vain attempt to "counteract" Chinese mainland's military strength.
Recently, some US media broke the news that the United States will expand the number of "troops" stationed in the Taiwan region, and it will be at least three times. The number of U.S. troops in Taiwan is currently about 30, which may increase to 100-200 in the next few months. The deployment of U.S. forces in Taiwan will also reach its largest scale since 1979. The U.S. military and the White House did not comment on the news.
In fact, the US military once had a large-scale garrison in the Taiwan area, the number of people reached about 2,300 at its peak, although the strength of the army is only one regiment, but the highest command is the rank of major general, including land, navy, air, and joint logistics. If the PLA launched a "unification war" at that time, this unit of the US military would become a rapid reaction force, maneuvering to the weak point of the PLA's landing force at any time and launching a counterattack while the PLA was not firmly established.
In addition, this US military unit will also send at least one resident US non-commissioned officer to supervise the establishment of Taiwan at or above the battalion level. It is not only to supervise and train the Taiwan military, but also to be a liaison officer between the Taiwan military and the US military, which can facilitate the US military to command the Taiwan military in wartime.
However, this unit has not left a good reputation in Taiwan, they have shot and killed Taiwanese military officers, drunk driving has killed "legislators", as well as violent incidents such as rape and femicide, and large-scale anti-American demonstrations have broken out in Taiwan.
After 1979, the unit gradually left Taiwan, leaving only a small number of personnel secretly to maintain contact with the Taiwan authorities.
The Taiwan authorities have not recognized such a force until Tsai Ing-wen first confirmed this information in 2021, but did not disclose the specific number, and later exposed photos of US military personnel training Taiwan troops to fight street battles, and the news of US troops stationed in Taiwan is increasing, and now it can be basically confirmed that the size of the US military stationed in Taiwan is about 30 people, and the members are mainly from special forces and marines drawn from the US military stationed in Japan.
In addition, there are also US technicians in some radar bases of the Taiwan military, which shows that the United States' control over the Taiwan military is very comprehensive. However, Qiu Guozheng, head of Taiwan's defense department, has always stressed that the US military is "assisting", not "stationing", but military personnel exchanges.
In addition to liaising with and training Taiwanese forces, the more important purpose of this small group of US military is to "counteract" Chinese mainland military strength.
The overall level of Taiwan's military is limited, and it is obviously a bit of a fool's dream to let the Taiwan military resist the PLA, so if the United States wants to prevent cross-strait reunification, it must rely on its own strength.
Although this small force of several dozen people is not large, it has become the most front-line unit of the US military in the Taiwan Strait and the unit that is most familiar with the current situation in the Taiwan Strait. The expansion of this force also represents that the US military is paying more and more attention to the ability to counter the PLA in the Taiwan Strait.
Once a "war in the Taiwan Strait" breaks out, for the US military, the focus will be on how to delay the PLA's occupation of the entire island, because if the US military wants to intervene, it will take time to transfer troops, so the morale and organizational strength of the Taiwan military will become the key in the eyes of the US military. To a certain extent, the expansion of the US military's strength in Taiwan can be seen as distrust of the Taiwan military, which needs to be personally trained and organized, and at the same time it is also the so-called "deterrence" of the Chinese mainland, so that the mainland does not dare to take action lightly because of the existence of the US military.
Of course, this is just wishful thinking on the part of the United States. The US military's move to "retreat" to the second island chain is enough to expose the true judgment of the United States on the situation.
