From the outside, the rocky hillside at Cuishan looks unremarkable. Step inside, and the silence gives way to an A-shaped underground waterway stretching 357 meters through solid g......
Taiwan's Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance and Patrol Unit practiced stay-behind operations on Aug. 12, 2026, using personnel de-identification, civilian vehicle cover, and sm......
Taiwan's Fourth Operational Zone restructured its forces on Aug. 12, 2026, integrating Thunderbolt-2000 multiple launch rocket system units and Land Sword II surface-to-air missile......
Taiwan's Second Operational Zone executed the largest cross-operational zone reinforcement in Han Kuang exercise history on Aug. 10, 2026, pushing two battalions of armored vehicle......
Taiwan's military activated the U.S. Army's Rapid Decision-Making and Synchronization Process (RDSP) during live port defense drills on August 10, the sixth day of Han Kuang 42, as......
Taiwan's military deployed mobile Hsiung Feng anti-ship missile launchers to the Penghu Islands for the first time on August 9, the fifth day of the island's 42nd Han Kuang live-fi......
Taiwan is set to launch its largest live-fire war games in years on August 5, with Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) revealing in an exclusive briefing that American military a......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te personally joined a Han Kuang 42 drill for the first time on August 5, boarding a fleet of CM-32 Yunpao armored vehicles that surged through central T......
Taiwan's legislature has blocked funding for unmanned military systems for months, and Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) is no longer masking his alarm. The impasse, he warned ......
Taiwan's largest annual military exercise kicked off on August 5, and for the first time, two full reserve brigades — one from the north, one from the south — are being mobilized s......
Taiwan's military is quietly scrapping a long-held preference for military-specification hardware. Under Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄), the armed forces have adopted a proc......
When Wellington Koo (顧立雄) took over as Taiwan's defense minister in May 2024, the question circulating inside the military establishment was blunt: could a civilian actually run th......
On July 24, Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu publicly warned that China's People's Liberation Army had conducted simultaneous live-fire exercises acro......
Taiwan's Defense Minister Wellington Koo received a bipartisan delegation from the US House of Representatives on July 31, discussing cross-strait security and pledging sustained c......
Taiwan's defense minister pushed back on July 27 against media reports claiming that President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) was being scheduled to inspect live-fire drills during Han Kuang 4......
Taiwan's military will begin its most demanding annual live-troop exercise on August 5, running a 10-day, nine-night drill structured around nine distinct combat verification scena......
More than 5,000 reservists will be mobilized for this year's Han Kuang 42 exercise — the largest reserve call-up in the drill's history — as Taiwan's military simultaneously activa......
Taiwan's military deployed ground forces to Orchid Island for the first time in nearly 30 years during a joint defense exercise that concluded on July 17, marking a significant rea......
President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) traveled to Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) on July 23 to press the opposition-controlled legislature — Taiwa......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has quietly elevated drone planning to the Vice Chief of the General Staff level, establishing an internal task force to coordinate the island......
Taiwan is building a "next-generation ground combat wireless network" designed to keep military commanders connected to troops — and to police, firefighters, and hospitals — even i......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine fired a single JL-series submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that splashed down, as planned, in a designated ......
As the Executive Yuan sends its draft special statute on domestic unmanned vehicle procurement to the Legislative Yuan — with opposition parties readying rival bills of their own —......
On June 27, Chinese and Russian air forces carried out their 11th Joint Air Strategic Patrol, sending more than 15 aircraft across the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the west......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has launched the most significant restructuring of its reservist training system in years, taking full effect in 2026. The centerpiece of the ......
Taiwan's military has covertly established a cross-border data backup infrastructure in Japan — a move designed to preserve critical command, communications, and operational data i......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported on the morning of June 10 that six People's Liberation Army (PLA) vessels and ten Chinese government ships remained active in waters ......
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 Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said Monday he remained "cautiously optimistic" that arms transfers from Washington would continue, seeking to project ca......
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......
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has firmly rejected Chinese President Xi Jinping's assertion that Taiwan independence is incompatible with peace in the Taiwan Strait, counteri......
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......
After months of failed negotiations and persistent deadlock over the total budget figure, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan on May 8 passed the Special Act for Safeguarding National Securi......
PLA Military Activity Around Taiwan: Patterns Behind the ExercisesTaiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported at 9:27 a.m. on May 4 that only two People's Liberation Army (PLA) ......
A retired Navy major and former lieutenant commander, Lu Li-shih (呂禮詩), recently traveled to China to tour a People's Liberation Army Navy vessel, publicly stating that he witnesse......
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......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense announced Sunday that Deputy Defense Minister Hsu Szu-chien (徐斯儉) attended a handover ceremony in the United States on March 17 for the Repu......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense announced March 22 that it has received its first two MQ-9B high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles from the United States. Deputy Defense Mini......
Taiwan's Executive Yuan has proposed a special defense budget bill worth approximately USD 38.5 billion (NT$1.25 trillion) to bolster national defense capabilities. Opposition part......
Taiwan's military has completed full delivery of all procured Altius-600M loitering munitions purchased from the United States, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) stated in a w......
A partisan dispute over the procedural review of Taiwan's proposed $38.5 billion special defense budget threatens to derail critical U.S. weapons procurements, a former U.S. Depart......
Taiwan's military has reported a rare and "unusual" lull in Chinese aerial activity, with Beijing's warplanes largely absent from the skies around the island for nine of the past 1......
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) assembled an unprecedented display of military leadership at the Presidential Office to promote his administration's NT$1.25 trillion (about U......
Taiwan's military plans to deploy four-legged robots and unmanned ground vehicles this year as part of a modernization strategy that integrates civilian technology into national de......
Taiwan's military is overhauling its combat readiness training, extending base confrontation exercises to ten days of continuous operations and standardizing reserve call-ups to tw......
As the Lunar New Year approaches, Taiwanese Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) visited military equipment units in the north of the country on the morning of January 2 to expres......
Taiwan's annual government budget has yet to be passed, as opposition parties in the legislature remain deadlocked on certain items, chief among them a multi-year NTD 1.25 trillion......
Taiwan's Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command, or ICEFCOM, often referred to as the military's "fourth service branch," has found itself in an unusual spotlight......
As Taiwan's current legislative session enters its final week, the Taiwan People's Party delivered on party chairman Huang Kuo-chang's post-U.S. visit pledge by introducing its own......
A Chinese military drone entered the airspace over the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Island - also known as the Dongsha Island - for the first time on January 17, prompting a war of wo......
