As part of a broader modernization effort, United States defense assistance should focus on freeing Taiwan’s senior military leadership from outdated paradigms by embedding multi-domain operations, joint training and campaign-level wargaming. The Pentagon’s most valuable contribution is doctrinal and architectural: helping Taiwan build a kill web — a distributed sensor-to-shooter network spanning space, air, sea and shore, linked by resilient communications, edge AI and decentralized command and control to find and hit targets fast even under electronic and kinetic attack.

That shift would sharpen Taiwan’s defense effectiveness and reduce the likelihood that U.S. personnel would be drawn directly into a conflict if coalition support became necessary. Enhanced interoperability with U.S. fo

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