A Target Rich Environment
Are Taiwan’s Military Planners Insane?
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22 April 2023 (Google Earth Day!)
A Target Rich Environment
Are Taiwan’s Military Planners Insane?
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - When I wrote this article I could not decide on a title and subtitle.
I pondered the obvious: “Putting All Your Eggs In One Basket” and/or “Fox In The Hen House” and/or “Chickens Come Home To Roost”. How about this one: “Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel”?
My corn-fed country boy days are long behind me and farming tropes make me cry nostalgically to return to Mayberry, but today as a “professional writer” the fewer tropes the better.
I finally came up with “A Target Rich Environment”.
It is difficult for me to see such dismal strategic thinking in Taiwan and not want to seek out a trope just to humiliate them once again…
China’s arsenal of short-medium range ballistic missiles, bunker busters, and cruise missiles will turn this area into a funeral pyre.
I get the logic of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) wanting direct access to Hengshan Defense Command. There is a tunnel between the MND to the bunker inside the mountain range behind it. However, with China’s new bunker busters this so-called “nuke-proof” facility will be an Easy-Bake Oven.
20 years ago the only facility in the area was the Naval Headquarters. Over the past ten years, Air Force Headquarters and the MND moved to the area.
Why would China even need precision guided bombs or missiles?
Hell, just roll the bombs out the back of cargo aircraft once the air defense systems are destroyed.
To further complicate the problem, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) moved to its new building in Neihu a few years back. However, the facility is at roughly 90 degrees from the MND, AF Hq, and Navy Hq.
Or hadn’t they noticed?
Also notice that Songshan Air Force Base is located across the river. The crosshairs I placed on the above photograph go south across the bridge. There is a flood retaining wall (which means nothing to bombs or missiles), but the line over the bridge going north runs directly over the center of Hengshan Defense Command.
If you are flying blind then just find the bridge and fly north dropping your bunker busters and…
Chinese fighter aircraft could come in from the north side of Hengshan to drop bunker busters, but you risk hitting the National Palace Museum (which is a big no-no in Beijing) making this a tight shot.
Hell, people in Taiwan don't even think commies will actually hit. Just look at the real estate price that's just 300 meters from MND complex. 21 freaking million NTD for an apartment unit that gets blown to oblivion when commies hit. You can find the numbers in a website of Ministry in Interior. ( https://lvr.land.moi.gov.tw/ ) Let that sink in then tell me if the people in Taiwan was actually ready for commies.