On July 22, China's Taiwan's annual routine Han Kuang military exercise debuted again!
According to Taiwan media reports, this year's Han Kuang military exercise will be an "unscripted, actual combat" exercise, which will be carried out in a real-time, real-time, and real-time manner, in order to verify the "decentralized command and control", "joint operation plan", "overall logistics support", "continuous and linkage principle" and "rules of engagement".
In addition, in order to ensure the smooth arrival of wartime strategic materials and supplies to aid Taiwan, the Taiwan military said that this year's Han Kuang exercise will mobilize various ministries and commissions to focus on the transfer of overseas materials.
According to a report by China's Taiwan defense department, from 6 a.m. on July 21 to 6 a.m. on July 22, a total of 12 mainland fighters and seven warships continued to operate around the Taiwan Strait.
At a time when the Taiwan military has completely lost air and space supremacy around the Taiwan Strait, they have actually focused on the transfer of materials from abroad, and this is completely without paying attention to the mainland's ballistic missiles, long-range fire, and all kinds of advanced unmanned aerial vehicles!
Drawing on the experience of the Ukraine war, the Taiwan military practiced "decentralized command and management" for the first time in the Hanguang military exercise.
On February 24, 2022, the Russian army crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border, advanced in five directions towards Ukraine, and directly launched an attack on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The Russian army is trying to attract the Ukrainian army in the Donbas region to return to the capital through an attack on Kyiv, so as to quickly occupy the Donbas region. However, the Ukrainian army in various parts of the Donbass region remained where they were, continued to hold on to various military fortresses, and successfully avoided a rout on the entire Ukrainian front!
At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, when the capital of Ukraine Kiev was suddenly attacked, and the entire war situation was still in a state of battlefield fog, the Ukrainian army in the Donbas region basically maintained a relatively stable state and continued to resist, and there was no large-scale or organized surrender, which is about the so-called Ukraine war experience called by the Taiwan army.
As early as September 12, 2023, China's Taiwan defense department mentioned in its so-called "national defense report" that for the mainland's possible attack on Taiwan, the Taiwan military will learn from the experience of the Ukraine war and adopt decentralized command and control, so that the PLA cannot start a throat-cutting war against it, or at least not let the PLA cut to the bottom, unable to completely paralyze the combat command system of the Taiwan army, and create conditions for it to prolong the resistance time as much as possible.
On May 20, after Lai Qingde assumed the leadership of China's Taiwan region, he continued to strengthen his Taiwan independence field and trumpeted his new "two-state theory." The cross-strait situation deteriorated sharply, and our military immediately held a number of military exercises in the Taiwan Strait region, and the cruise of our military aircraft and warships around Taiwan has evolved from once every day since August 2022 to the new normal of once a day, and the Taiwan Strait Air Force is facing great pressure.
Against this background, Gu Lixiong, head of Taiwan's regional defense department and a well-known Taiwan independence element, ordered to improve the specific practice of decentralized command as soon as possible, and conduct key exercises in this year's Han Kuang military exercise.
Ukraine is a sovereign and independent country, and Taiwan is only a province of China, the geographical environment, geopolitical situation, and industrial strength of the opponent faced by the local armed forces in Taiwan are hugely different from the Ukrainian army.
Counting on the military support of foreign forces, the Taiwan military focused on the transfer of overseas materials.
As we all know, there is a qualitative gap in the comparison of military strength between the mainland and Taiwan!
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is a powerful army with both offensive and defensive capabilities and global strategic strike capabilities, but due to the limitations of the army's size, scientific and technological development level, and industrial capacity, the overall combat capability of China's local armed forces in Taiwan is very limited, and it is difficult to engage in long-term military confrontation with the PLA.
The entire Taiwan society is well aware of this, and from the very beginning they pinned their hopes of resisting national reunification on the full support of foreign interfering forces such as the United States and Japan.
Jiang Jip-p, former captain of Taiwan's naval fleet and a scholar at the National Defense and Security Research Institute, pointed out that Taiwan is currently extremely short of strategic materials such as oil and natural gas, and all of them need to rely on overseas imports. Once a conflict breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, how to ensure the supply and transportation of oil and natural gas will not only have a bearing on whether the people's livelihood can maintain normal operations in wartime, but also on whether the Taiwan military can continue to fight. Therefore, it is very necessary to carry out material transfer drills.
Relevant people in China's Taiwan regional defense department said that considering the experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the geographical characteristics of Taiwan surrounded by seas, the Taiwan military will select a strategic place in Taiwan this year to implement overseas material transfer and traffic operation control, simulating how government departments can cooperate to transport important strategic materials across units after overseas materials arrive in Taiwan during wartime, so as to ensure that overseas materials arrive in Taiwan and can be smoothly transported to their destinations through various transportation modes on the island.
In addition, since Lai Ching-te came to power, he has vigorously advocated the new "two-state theory," which has led to the further deterioration of cross-strait relations; in response, mainland planes and warships have basically formed a new normal of daily patrols around Taiwan.
Our army has the ability to form absolute control over the periphery of the Taiwan Strait, and it is pure wishful thinking for the Taiwan army to obtain foreign aid in wartime!
The Taiwan military has opened and closed its mouth and closed its mouth to the experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war, so what kind of war experience can the Russian-Ukrainian war provide to the local authorities in Taiwan?
Perhaps the most important experience is that the Ukrainian army's persistence to this day is entirely the result of the full support of NATO countries.
Therefore, if the Taiwan military tries to prolong the period of resistance, it must also find a way to obtain foreign aid.
But the situation faced by the Taiwanese army and the Ukrainian army is completely different.
Ukraine is vast, with its east-west borders more than 1,000 kilometers apart. This unique geographical condition means that it is difficult for the Russian army to control the western border of Ukraine, which also creates an excellent opportunity for the Ukrainian army to receive military assistance from the United States and the West.
However, the island of Taiwan hangs lonely overseas, surrounded by the vast ocean on all sides, and the closest to Taiwan Island is the mainland.
With China's current naval and air forces, once the war begins, our military will use various means to cut off Taiwan's access to foreign aid.
First, our military can send two aircraft carrier fleets to the north and south of Taiwan Island to block possible support from the United States and Japan.
Second, on the premise of quickly seizing air supremacy, a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will patrol Taiwan's ports 24 hours a day without blind spots, and sink all ships that go to Taiwan without our permission.
Third, our ballistic missiles and long-range fire, guided by drones and reconnaissance satellites, will destroy all ships approaching Taiwan's ports.
Fourth, with China's powerful industrial strength, in wartime, our military can completely create a "hellish landscape" composed of reconnaissance drones and attack drones for foreign interference forces around the Taiwan Strait, so that US and Japanese aid ships will not return.
We can use the above four tactics in a single or combined way, but in the face of absolute power, the Taiwan military has no suitable means of countermeasures.
The daily patrols of our warships and planes around the Taiwan Strait are, in essence, a rehearsal for a future blockade war on Taiwan Island.
As long as the Taiwan military is unable to break through the daily patrols around Taiwan Island conducted by our navy and air force, then the Taiwan military's overseas material transfer operations, which were mainly practiced in the Han Kuang military exercise, will never be put into practice.
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