https://youtu.be/TJvi4D5Yow0?si=jSSfmyM5KK69uylR
I’ll frame this at the strategic and defensive level: what Taiwan can learn from Ukraine without pretending the geography, alliance structure, or escalation risks are identical.
Taiwan can learn seven big lessons from Ukraine:
- Do not wait for invasion day.
Ukraine survived partly because it prepared society, not only the army. Taiwan needs civil defense, shelter drills, medical logistics, food distribution, backup communications, and private-company coordination before crisis. Taiwan is already moving this way through civil defense handbooks, Han Kuang urban drills, and company-contingency planning. - “Small, many, cheap, mobile” beats “few, big, expensive.”
Ukraine showed that drones, anti-tank missiles, mobile air defense, and dispersed units can blunt a larger force. For Taiwan, this means mines, mobile anti-ship missiles, MANPADS, drones, decoys, mobile radars, and hardened command posts. - Drones are now a battlefield ecosystem, not a gadget.
Ukraine uses drones for reconnaissance, targeting, strike, logistics, and counter-drone work. Taiwan needs mass production, rapid replacement, EW-resistant systems, sea drones, interceptor drones, and “red-free” supply chains. - Win the information war early.
Ukraine’s political survival depended on telling the world, immediately and vividly: “We are still here.” Taiwan needs prebuilt multilingual media channels, evidence-collection systems, cyber resilience, and a clear democratic narrative before Beijing floods the zone. - Assume communications will be attacked.
Ukraine’s dependence on satellite communications, ISR, and resilient networks shows Taiwan must prepare backup internet, satellite links, mesh networks, emergency radio, and redundant command systems. - Make invasion look impossible, not merely costly.
Ukraine’s lesson is not “fight bravely after landing.” Taiwan’s lesson should be: prevent landing, break logistics, attack transport ships, disrupt ports, deny air superiority, and make the Taiwan Strait a killing zone. ISW argues Taiwan should adapt Ukraine’s lessons toward long-range strike resilience and maritime interdiction, not copy Ukraine mechanically. - The civilian rear is part of the front.
Ukraine proved that repair crews, hospitals, programmers, drivers, supermarkets, telecom firms, and local governments are part of national defense. Taiwan’s key phrase should be: whole-of-society resistance.
The deepest lesson: Taiwan must become a porcupine, but also a nervous system.
Porcupine = missiles, drones, mines, mobility.
Nervous system = civil society, information resilience, communications, logistics, morale.
Ukraine teaches Taiwan this:
Do not merely prepare an army. Prepare a people.
意思是說，正確順序是，先殺光匪諜，再殺光共匪，
