Scrap 08 | We don't even realize it's a war

The long-lost "book scraps" are back. I have read more physical books and e-books in the past few months, and now I will continue to export them.

For those who haven't read this series yet: Scrap sounds a bit like "sketch", and I wanted the quickest way to capture my impressions after reading a book and share it with someone who might also find this book useful to him.

1. Strange to say, Taiwan, which has been threatened by missiles for many years and is in an important strategic position, is often criticized for lack of national defense awareness among the younger generation. When I discussed this issue with my colleagues before, we were trying to figure out whether we were "doing not believe that the national army has the ability to fight back" or "having no sense of national defense issues." Later, I thought it was the latter. Because I don't know how much strength or strategy Taiwan's national defense can deal with , I have a negative attitude.
2. In "Shadow Wars" , it may be a rare book that can arouse public interest and touch on the multi-faceted military conflict. With years of experience in front-line military reporting, the author deeply depicts scenes of near-conflict outbreaks in the South China Sea and the Arctic. Judging from the news, the dialogue between the two sides warning each other may be very formal, but in the name of maintaining peace and order, the ambition to continue to expand the scope of military occupation to achieve final victory is true.
3. If you are curious about how hostile relations with China and Russia are viewed within the United States, the first few chapters of this book provide a clear explanation. One faction believes that it is not necessarily because of what the two sides have done to provoke each other, but because they have different positions on geographic identity, and they are dissatisfied with and envious of the United States' ability to show its power over neighboring regions.
4. The author of this book reviewed those military conflicts that were important to the United States, and repeatedly used a tone of regret, emphasizing that the United States had the ability to respond, but missed a good opportunity, or was too naive to believe that China and Russia could participate in existing international organizations. deterioration. Judging from the impressions passed on by the local media to the Chinese and Russian people, the American political system is not only incompetent, but also increasingly decaying.
5. It is conceivable that the officers responded with restrained expressions to the author, but firmly believed that in those almost forgotten Russian invasions, they must do their best to develop preventive strategies. However, with the evolution of technology, intelligence collection is more difficult to identify, and the previous spy case that was caught may no longer apply to the next tactics.
6. The interference of fake news and false information, which Taiwanese have become accustomed to paralysis, is an increasingly important national defense issue. Those disturbances aimed at the national psychology were first quietly, then inexplicable extreme confrontation and panic, distrust of leaders, and finally large-scale conflicts broke out. This has already happened in Ukraine.
7. Since Trump took office, the United States has become more active in forming alliances with Asian countries and countering China with an Indo-Pacific strategy. However, in those common conflict zones for a long time, because the red lines are not clearly drawn and the messages conveyed are ambiguous, it is easy for the two countries to misunderstand each other's intentions. This is also the way to deal with what the author reminded in the last chapter. Compared with many books that constantly intimidate military threats, this book has a lot of endings.
8. "Shadow War" also introduced my personal curiosity about space warfare and arctic submarine warfare. Although I have read the national defense report by chance before, I always feel that it is too official, and it is difficult to imagine the impact of the impact and how it will happen. So the author's description impressed me very much (as if watching a movie but it's true):

Americans believe that the first space war will unfold silently. The enemy launched a series of carefully planned cyberattacks across the United States at the speed of light. Television screens were blackened, Internet connections became abnormally slow, and the cash machines were malfunctioning. At first, it may seem like an unfortunate, serial failure of the network. Few were immediately panicked.

The battle lines then extended from the cyber realm to far-flung space, with ground-based lasers attacking U.S. communications satellites in low-Earth orbit, and enemy warships and aircraft launching missiles that destroyed GPS satellites orbiting more than 12,000 miles above Earth.