Taiwan's civilian soldiers, watching Ukraine, worry they aren't prepared to defend their island
Army reservists hold rifles during training at a camp base in Taiwan on March 14, 2022.brutal war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has seen hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in the military reserve called up to active duty, andto resist the Russian invasion. Western military and intelligence experts, many of whom expected Ukraine to fall quickly under the might of the much larger and more heavily armed Russian military, have credited these forces with helping to slow the Russian advance.
For now, though, the defense of Taiwan is up to the military and its reserves. Currently, Taiwan has 169,000 active-duty military personnel, according to the. That’s a figure dwarfed by the PLA’s 2-million-strong military. The PLA air force operates more than 2,400 combat-capable aircraft, including J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter jets. Taiwan has 474 combat aircraft, and most of its fighter jets are decades old.
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