Edmonds / Tsai Taiwan's Security and Air Power

Taiwan's Defense Against the Air Threat from Mainland China
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-35052-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Security in Asia Series

Recent concern about mainland China's intentions towards Taiwan, and more general concern about the risk of instability in the region, has led to growing interest in Taiwan's military strategy. This book brings together a range of experts from the West and from Taiwan itself who examine the key issues connected with Taiwan's air power, which is a key aspect of the China-Taiwan military balance. During the 1990s, Taiwan invested considerable resources in thoroughly re-equipping its air force with modern air defence and strike aircraft equipped with modern missiles, thereby denying China command of the air in any conflict in the short- to medium-term. In the longer-term, air power will remain a crucial influence on the overall balance, as China's efforts to upgrade its own air force's capabilities begin to undermine Taiwan's current advantages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmonds, Martin

Tsai, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword ROCAF General Yang-Jou Shiah

Preface: The Challenges and Imperatives in Taiwan's Defense Peter Brookes

Abbreviations

Introduction Martin Edmonds and Michael M. Tsai

Part 1. Air Power and Taiwan's Security

1. Air Power and Taiwan's Security Martin Edmonds

2. Ten Pointers for Taiwan on Contemporary Air Power Greg Mills

Part 2. The Balance of Air Power over the Taiwan Straits

3. The Shifting Balance of Air Superiority across the Taiwan Strait York Chen

4. Command of the Air over Taiwan Chih-Heng Yang and Tzu-Yun Su

Part 3. The Air Threat from Mainland China

5. The PLA Air Force's Mobile Offensive Operations Kenneth Allen

6. Why a Chinese Preemptive Strike would Fail Robert Pape

Part 4. The Air Defense of Taiwan

7. The Air Battle Strategy in Taiwan's Defensive Operations Chih-Kung Yu

8. Joint Air and Missile Defense for Taiwan: Implications for deterrence and defense Eric McVadon

9. Air Base Defense: Chinese Missile Attacks and Taiwan's Defensive Response Ming-Yen Tsai

Part 5. Taiwan's Air Force and Future Requirements

10. The ROCAF Military Culture and Restructuring Chien Chung

11. The ROCAF after Next: A Race to embrace the Future Richard D. Fisher

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Edmonds is Professorial Fellow and Director of the Centre for Defense and International Security Studies at Lancaster University. He is also founding Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Defense and Security Analysis and co-Director of the Lancaster and York Universities Defense Research Institute
Michael M. Tsai is currently the Depute Taipei Representative in Washington DC with specific responsibility for Taiwan's relations with the US Department of Defense and the US Armed Forces. A member of the DPP, he served as a Legislator in the Legislative Yuan, when he also served as adviser to the Organizational Planning Committee of the Ministry of National Defense. He is the publisher of Taiwan Defense Affairs and founder of the Institute for Taiwan Defense and Strategic Studies.