Taiwan kicked off Han Kuang 42, its largest annual live-force military exercise, on August 5, with the ten-day drill drawing sharply divergent reactions on both sides of the Taiwan......
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'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......
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......
When France's outgoing representative to Taiwan, Franck Paris (龍燁), took the podium at the Bastille Day reception in Taipei on July 14, 2026, the guest list around him told a story......
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 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, China's state broadcaster CCTV announced — with unusual speed for a PLA operation — that the navy had test-fired a submarine-launched intercontinental ball......
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......
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 legislature has authorized the executive branch to sign Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) for four U.S. arms procurement packages, even as the broader NT$1.25 trillion......
For twelve consecutive days beginning February 27, People's Liberation Army aircraft recorded no sorties over the Taiwan Strait's western approaches — an absence that prompted a wa......
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 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......
