Taiwan needs to flood the battlefield with cheap, mobile, and survivable weapons to counter China, former senior military officer says

"To prepare for a possible all-out war with China, Taiwan should focus on fielding substantial numbers of cheap, mobile, and survivable weapons, a former top Taiwanese defense official said. Taiwan currently faces two types of conflict - what experts and officials have referred to as China's gray-zone activities that are just below the threshold of war and the potential for a full-scale Chinese invasion. Countering both requires an array of weaponry."

""We need a large number of the distributed, mobile, survivable, lethal" weapons, Lee argued, and those systems need to be low-cost, high-volume, and highly survivable in a fight, he added. Asymmetric warfare is a strategy that uses large numbers of inexpensive, mobile, hard-to-target systems - like drones, missiles, and dispersed units - to blunt a larger military's advantages by denying it easy targets and inflicting outsized damage. Think drones blowing up tanks in Ukraine or sinking Russian warships."

Taiwan should focus on fielding substantial quantities of affordable, mobile, and survivable weapons to prepare for a potential all-out war with China. Taiwan faces gray-zone operations just below war threshold and the risk of a full-scale invasion, requiring diverse defensive capabilities. Emphasizing distributed, low-cost, high-volume lethal systems improves survivability and deterrence. Asymmetric tactics use inexpensive, hard-to-target systems—drones, missiles, dispersed units, sensors, and jammers—to deny easy targets and inflict disproportionate damage. Taiwan has invested in drones, sensors, jamming, and anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles to support this strategy.

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