The Scary War Game Over Taiwan That the U.S. Loses to China Again and Again — “Taiwan Would Fold in a Week Or Two”

• The Scary War Game Over Taiwan That the U.S. Loses to China Again and Again
  by Richard Bernstein, https://nationalinterest.org/ , 17 Aug 2020
  Lyle Goldstein, U.S. Naval War College: “My appraisal is that Taiwan would fold in a week or two.”
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  Around a large table with a map and icons representing ships, submarines, planes, missile batteries, land-based forces, space-based sensors, and other apparatuses of modern warfare, officials from the Pentagon and the Rand Corp. fight a thus far unimaginable conflict.
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  The Red Team, composed of experts on the Chinese military, aims to use all available forces to capture Taiwan, the island 90 miles off the coast that China regards as a renegade province and that it has repeatedly vowed to retake, by force if necessary.
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  The Blue Team, made up U.S. military personnel with operational experience — fighter pilots, cyber warriors, space experts, missile defense specialists – must try to defeat the Chinese invasion. It doesn’t generally go well for the Blue Team.
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  “It’s had its ass handed to it for years,” David A. Ochmanek, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for force development and now a defense analyst at Rand, told RealClearInvestigations. “For years the Blue Team has been in shock because they didn’t realize how badly off they were in a confrontation with China.”
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