Despite the flurry of recent media accounts, Ian Easton's new book “The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan's Defense and American Strategy in Asia” makes no prediction of a 2020 invasion of Taiwan. Ignore the erroneous media hype: Easton offers a brilliant, thick description of China's invasion plans, Taiwan's plans to repel an invasion, potential invasion scenarios, and how the U.S. might respond. Throughout the incredible level of detail, and the vast number of plans, locations, weapons systems, operations and doctrines it presents, Easton's clarity of order and logical presentation keep everything firmly under control. As the father of a son soon to serve in the Taiwan army, I came away from this book with a renewed sense of optimism and pride in the abilities of the Taiwan to handle an invasion from China, and a much better appreciation of how difficult it would be to invade "The Beautiful Island." In short, do not buy the pessimism, but do buy this book.....go thou and read the rest. Get it on Amazon!
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Hey Michael, how come you never write for Taiwan Sentinel?
ReplyDeleteJust got a copy; lamentably, no Kindle version...........yet.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the book, so disclaimer....but I'm pretty skeptical of anyone that thinks they predict outcomes in an armed conflict or suggests a war can go smoothly or according to plan.
ReplyDeleteI certainly doubt anyone that's actually been in a war would talk like this.
War not going smoothly or according to plan actually hampers amphibious invaders more.
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