Seven months after Russia’s full-scale invasion, the skies over Ukraine remain contested. Few military pundits saw it coming, predicting the Ukrainians stood little chance of defending their airspace. Moscow, too, believed its larger and more technologically sophisticated aerospace forces would quickly seize air superiority and expected to secure a decisive battlefield victory.
But in war, nothing is easy or inevitable. Rather than experience a quick defeat, Kyiv has stayed in the fight and landed a few hard blows to Moscow’s invading forces. Ukraine’s defense ought to inspire Taiwan to follow a similar path, should it face down a similar threat from Beijing.
The conventional wisdom in Washington now holds that if China chooses to invade Taiwan, it would likely “go big and move fast” in an attempt to conquer the island before the United States and its allies arrive. The underlying assumption is that Taiwan’s military would be unable to halt a Chinese incursion without the United States intervening directly and quickly.
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