jhungary
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Also, try reading a book for once in your life. You go around making stupid claims like Taiwan has strategic depth. Only a fool like you believe that. No one else does (see citation below).
Defending Taiwan: The Future Vision of Taiwan's Defence Policy and Military ... - Google Books
"Martin Edmonds, Michael Tsai - 2013 - History
The Future Vision of Taiwan's Defence Policy and Military Strategy Martin ... ability to carry out, not only the proposed, but also current defense policy effectively. ... of Mainland China, Taiwan has always suffered from a lack of strategic depth."
dude, I wrote those book, and who is Michael Tsai and Martin Edmonds?
So, one word form two random guys and I have to be dead set believe on what they said?
The Strategic Value of Territorial Islands from the Perspective of National Security | Review of Island Studies
From the viewpoint of military strategy, islands have played such important roles as warning and surveillance posts, logistic bases for operations launched from the sea against mainland targets, and fortifications to prevent intrusions by hostile ships. Today, they also provide countries with baselines to measure jurisdictional waters. Since the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) came into force, national governments have been able to establish exclusive economic zones extending beyond their territorial waters, within which they retain certain sovereign and jurisdictional rights. The EEZ can extend up to 200 nautical miles from the baseline, making it an important body of water for the military strategies of both the coastal and seafaring states. In littoral military operations, the jurisdictional waters stretching from the shore can be an important area for both a defense-in-depth strategy, as seen from the continent, and power projection, as seen from the sea. Military operations within the EEZ are interpreted quite differently from country to country, though, with some, notably the United States, claiming that military ships may freely navigate, explore, and carry out exercises, and others like Brazil banning foreign navies from conducting exercises in their EEZ. Legal interpretations of naval operations within an EEZ can have great bearing on national security policy, so remote islands that serve as bases of EEZ claims have gained new importance from the vantage point of military strategy.