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The military history of Taiwan spans at least 400 years and is the history of battles and armed actions that took place in Taiwan and its surrounding islands. The island was the base of Chinese pirates who came into conflict with the Ming dynasty during the 16th century. From 1624 to 1662, Taiwan was the base of Dutch and Spanish colonies.
The military's current primary mission is the defense of Taiwan against a possible military invasion by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the PRC, which is seen as the predominant threat [8] [9] in the ongoing dispute over the ambiguous political status of Taiwan dating back to the de facto end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Beijing has unveiled a new tactic on Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own, officials and experts say: large-scale drills with no fanfare to normalise a heightened military presence ...
First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955) Taiwan United States China: Ceasefire. Chinese withdrawal, status quo ante bellum. 567 troops killed; Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958) Taiwan United States China: Ceasefire. China ceases bombardment. 440 troops killed [1] Communist insurgency in Thailand (1965–1983) Thailand Taiwan [2] (until July 1967)
Taiwan aims to train 50,000 volunteers for emergencies amid China's military drills. Taiwan's Presidential Office held its first-ever tabletop war games on Thursday in a sign of heightened ...
Taiwan's military conducted a two-day exercise at sea, on land and in the air this week to practice defending against such a surprise attack. Maj. Gen. Sun Li-fang, the chief defense ministry ...
Military and Coast Guard orders make up a large portion of shipbuilders books by dollar value. Between the Taiwanese Navy and the Coast Guard Administration Taiwan spends approximately a billion dollars a year on new vessel construction. [26] The vessels are usually constructed by the shipyards and weapon installation done by NCSIST afterwards.
Taiwan, in comparison, has 169,000-strong active military personnel and is currently backed by some 1.66 million “civilian warriors”, according to data from the International Institute for ...