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A "Taiwan Missile Crisis" in the Making? Inside Taipei's Forward Deployment Plans - William Spaniel
Taiwanese media is reporting that Taipei plans to forward deploy multiple HIMARS units to Taiwan's outlying islands. Once there, they could target additional ports and naval infrastructure in the event of a PRC invasion. Today, we look at this plan, the benefits that could come with it, and the possible risk that the PRC will attempt to interdict the forward deployments.
0:00 Taiwan's Bold Strategy
1:56 The Range of the New HIMARS Deployments
6:36 Will This Trigger a Taiwan Missile Crisis?
