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2013-12-27 China-Japan-Koreas

Taiwan's Bumpy Transition to an All-Volunteer Military

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Posted by Pappy 2013-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The MND's latest report to Taiwan's parliament reveals poor recruitment levels at roughly 30 percent of the target

Look at it this way, you're doing better than Obamacare.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2013-12-27 08:46|| 2013-12-27 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps the potential recruits are seeing the way the U.S. Gov't is treating it's all volunteer force (see breaking promises about retirement dollars, free medical, etc) and decided 'the hell with THAT crap.'

Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-12-27 13:51|| 2013-12-27 13:51|| Front Page Top

#3 At the rate relations are deteriorating between China + Japan, Taiwan had better do something pronto to reverse it.

Taiwan is to "Mahanist" China what the Hawaiian Islands + other were to "Mahanist", Isolationist/
Continentalist-vs-Internationalist America back in the late 19th-early 20th Century.

POTUSes McKinley + Teddy [Roosevelt], Horace Greely + Randolph Hearst, and that US-should-build-the-Panama-Canal, etc. "Manifest Destiny" thingys.

* E.G. WORLD MILITARY FORUM > MIYAKO WATERWAYS/STRAITS, EAST CHINA'S MARITIME LIFELINE MORE VULNERABLE THAN THE STRAITS OF MALACCA [South China Sea]. EAST CHINA SEA + DISPUTED DIAOYU ISLANDS [Japan = Senkakus], TAIWAN ISSUE, + SEA LANES SECURITY ARE THREE MAJOR ISSUES RELATED TO CHINA'S RISE AS A GLOBAL MARITIME POWER, OVER 20 MOSTLY JAPANESE-CONTROLLED ISLANDS BLOCK OR THREATEN CHINA'S SEA LANE THROUGH THE MIYAKO STRAITS.

DARE CHINA-VS-JAPAN/EAST CHINA SEA = NOT-CUBA, NOT-NUKULAAR? "SPLENDID LITTLE WAR"???

D *** NG IT, ISN'T THAT CAROLINE KENNEDY COMING OUT OF THE NOT-OUT-OF-THE-WEST US NORTHEAST RIDING THE LONE RANGER'S WHITE HOUSE, AND WID LEONARD DECAPRIO AS TONTO???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-12-27 21:16|| 2013-12-27 21:16|| Front Page Top

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