The Urban Resilience Exercises this year are expected to last five months through August — overlapping with the Han Kuang exercises and raising the number of days that regions would be affected to two — with drone trials scheduled for Chiayi and Pingtung counties, National Security Council Deputy Secretary-General Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆) told the Presidential Office’s Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience...
The article presents a carefully calibrated narrative of Taiwan’s evolving defense strategy – one built on proactive preparation rather than reactive crisis management. The emphasis on ‘systematic and science-based’ drills, coupled with the deliberate avoidance of pre-scripted scenarios, strongly suggests a desire to move beyond the historically ad-hoc nature of Taiwan’s emergency response. The timing of the exercises overlapping with Han Kuang is particularly revealing; it’s not merely about pa...