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The Taiwan Policy Working Group, under the leadership of AEI's Dan Blumenthal and the Project 2049 Institute's Randall Schriver and Mark Stokes, has just issued a new report: Deter, Defend, Repel, and Partner: A Defense Strategy for Taiwan. In this report, the authors demonstrate that, though cross-Strait tensions have been
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significantly reduced under the Ma Ying-jeou administration, Taiwan’s defense establishment continues to fulfill a vital role in allowing the people on Taiwan to make their own choices about the island's future.
Over the past thirty years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has become a nation of increasing wealth, power, and international stature. The PRC's stated ambition to unify Taiwan with China has neither changed nor slackened, and the People's Liberation Army has pursued capabilities intended to coerce Taiwan into a settlement while preventing U.S. intervention. In short, Taiwan faces one of the world's most daunting security challenges.
What are Taiwan's strategic objectives? How can Taiwan's military best contribute to achieving those goals? What threats and contingencies should the military prepare for? Given the cross-Strait imbalance in military resources, how can Taiwan hope to deter and, if necessary, defeat mainland aggression? What role should the United States and other international partners play in Taiwan's defense strategy?
Earlier this year, the Taiwan Policy Working Group set out to answer these questions and to craft a new defense strategy for Taiwan. This study group, composed of both regional and defense experts, held a series of meetings to consider Taiwan's security challenges, its military objectives and missions, and its force requirements. At this event, Blumenthal, Schriver, and Stokes will present the group's findings and William Murray, of the Naval War College, will respond. AEI's Gary J. Schmitt will moderate.
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| 9:30 | Panelists: | Dan Blumenthal, AEI |
| Randall Schriver, Project 2049 Institute | ||
| Mark Stokes, Project 2049 Institute | ||
| Discussant: | William Murray, Naval War College | |
| Moderator: | Gary J. Schmitt, AEI | |
| 11:00 | Adjournment |
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Speaker biographies
Dan Blumenthal joined AEI in November 2004 as a resident fellow in Asian studies. He has served on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission since 2005, serving as vice chairman in 2007, and as a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group. Previously, Mr. Blumenthal was senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the first George W. Bush administration. At AEI, Mr. Blumenthal focuses on Asian security issues. He has written articles and op-eds for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and numerous edited volumes. He is currently working on a book that examines domestic influences on Chinese policymaking.
William Murray is an associate research professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Division of the U.S. Naval War College's Center for Naval Warfare Studies. He joined the Navy in 1983 and served on and qualified to command nuclear-powered submarines. He retired from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander in 2003. He is the coeditor of the U.S. Naval Institute books China's Future Nuclear Submarine Force and China's Energy Strategy: The Impact on Beijing's Maritime Policies. He has published articles in International Security, the U.S. Army War College's Parameters, Comparative Strategy, the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings, Jane's Intelligence Review, Undersea Warfare, and the Naval War College Review.
Gary J. Schmitt is a resident scholar at AEI, where he is director of the Program on Advanced Strategic Studies. Prior to coming to AEI, he helped found and served as the executive director of the Project for the New American Century, a Washington-based foreign and defense policy think tank. Previously, Mr. Schmitt was a member of the professional staff of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and served as the committee's minority staff director. In 1984, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the post of executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board at the White House. Mr. Schmitt is the author of numerous books and articles on intelligence, defense affairs, and national security. His most recent books are, with Thomas Donnelly, Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources (AEI Press, 2007) and The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition (Encounter Books, 2009).
Randall Schriver is a founding partner of Armitage International LLC and the president and CEO of the Project 2049 Institute. He previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2003 to 2005 and as chief of staff and senior policy adviser to then–deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage from 2001 to 2003. Prior to his work at the State Department, he was an independent consultant and a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as a presidential management fellow from 1994 to 1998. Mr. Schriver has also served as an active-duty naval intelligence officer. He was on the Bush-Cheney Defense Transition Team and was a member of the Asia policy team for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000. He has won numerous military and civilian awards from the U.S. government and was recently presented with the Order of the Propitious Clouds by the president of Taiwan for promoting U.S.-Taiwan relations.
Mark Stokes is the executive director of the Project 2049 Institute. Previously, he was the founder and president of Quantum Pacific Enterprises, an international consulting firm, and vice president and Taiwan country manager for Raytheon International. He has served as executive vice president of Laifu Trading Company, a subsidiary of the Rehfeldt Group; a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and a member of the board of governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan. A twenty-year U.S. Air Force veteran, Mr. Stokes also served as team chief and senior country director for the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He is a fluent Mandarin speaker.
