Ep 144: Mark Montgomery on Defending Taiwan (Boiling Moat #2)

School of War · Sep 17, 2024 · 54m

Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at FDD and contributor to The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan, joins the show to talk about Taiwan, tensions in the South China Sea, and more.

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• 01:27 Introduction

• 02:00 Why the Navy?

• 04:05 PACOM

• 06:53 Working with Senator McCain

• 10:51 Resource prioritization

• 15:19 Shortsighted decisions

• 19:56 Sink China’s Navy

• 25:30 Is Taiwan ready?

• 30:35 Imitate Estonia

• 33:31 Sensor complexes

• 37:26 Missile defense

• 43:30 Nuclear escalation

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