Taiwan's Drone Billions Risk Becoming a Procurement Parade Without a Strategy
Money Without a Master Plan
During the Iran-U.S. conflict, Iranian drones shot down American Apache h......
An Apache crash in the Strait of Hormuz has put a number on a brutal reality — U.S. air power is hemorrhaging assets at a rate not seen since Vietnam, and the bill is already $29 b......
Taiwan's legislature recently approved a NT$780 billion special defense budget ceiling that stripped out all planned commercial purchases and commissioned development of unmanned v......
Taiwan's Army Command Headquarters marked its 80th anniversary on Thursday with a ceremony at Dahan Military Base that combined troop reviews, live-fire demonstrations, and the pub......
The National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) has publicly unveiled its Kestrel II anti-armor rocket, a domestically developed weapon designed to bolster Tai......
Thunder Tiger Corporation (雷虎科技) and U.S. defense technology firm Shield AI signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday to integrate Shield AI's Hivemind autonomous software......
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger has argued that Taiwan's defense posture is quietly shifting — and that recent conflicts involving major powers offer cr......
Taiwan — widely regarded as the world's top conflict flashpoint — has seen its defense budget remain stalled in the legislature, even as Japan, the Philippines, and other Indo-Pa......
Taiwan's Executive Yuan on April 30 outlined the structure of a NT$1.25 trillion special defense procurement budget, with NT$335 billion earmarked specifically for unmanned vehicle......
The briefing was not announced publicly. No press release went out, no official schedule was published. But at the 2025 Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition, Vice Pre......
The brief ceasefire that halted the U.S.-Israel-Iran war on April 8—after fighting that began on February 28, 2026—has left Taiwan's military with a set of uncomfortable conclusion......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has for the first time released detailed spending figures and quantities for its massive NT$1.25 trillion ($38.5 billion) special arms procure......
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Kuan-ting (陳冠廷) took the stage at the "Maritime Defense Unmanned Trends Forum" on April 7 with a clear message: Taiwan must take ......
When Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 began reshaping battlefield dynamics across multiple recent conflict zones, it sent a clear signal to defense industries worldwide that the era of the c......
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington-based think tank, last month recommended that Taiwan establish a four-layer "maritime hellscape" defense zone extending ......
When the United States and Israel launched large-scale airstrikes against Iran in late February, Washington's political narrative was straightforward: The strikes were a necessary ......
