退役美國海軍將領Mark Montgomery向美國政府提出建言---將美軍在台訓練團團員從五百名增為一千名
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退役的美國海軍少將Mark Montgomery 現在擔任設於華盛頓的智庫The Foundation for Defense of Democracies 的Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation的Senior Director and Senior Fellow, 他在上個月, 應眾院特設的支那委員會之邀, 前往作證. 他向委員會提出了可以增強台灣的防衛力量的20項辦法, 其中第八項涉及我們向美方提出的一份建議案中的第一階段工作項目.
Mark應該曾看過我們先前遞給某前一位重量級的眾議員的建議案.
我趁此機會, 向鄉親們介紹Mark任職的The Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD,保衛民主基金會，又譯作捍衛民主基金會) “是一家總部設在美國華盛頓特區的非營利智庫/ 政策研究所/ 遊說組織。該組織於2001成立，其政治傾向被劃歸為無黨派、鷹派和新保守主義等。中國將其視為「美國價值觀的積極倡導者」與「新保守主義堡壘」。”
接下去, 我請鄉親們閱讀Appendix I, 因為台灣的媒體對Mark向美國政府提出的建言---將美軍在台訓練團團員從五百名增為一千名---廣為報導.
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針對Mark的提議, 赤媒與赤藍媒刊登了在美國的親共或親赤藍黨的支那裔學者的評論. [Appendix III]
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Witness Testimony: Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions: Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan
Before the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
By RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery
Senior Director and Senior Fellow
Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Washington, DC
May 15, 2025
Witness Testimony: Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions: Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan.
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This is Not a Lost Cause
Line of Effort 1 — Siege Proof Taiwan and Enhance Its Ability to Defend Itself
Ensure Taiwan is properly resourcing and equipping itself for victory in a demanding kinetic scenario.
8. Support training and exercises with a ‘named operation.’ The JTT [The U.S. Joint Training Team ] in Taiwan has emerged as the key element of this integration effort, and it should be stabilized at a higher-end strength (doubling in size to approximately 1,000 personnel), with 50 percent of the staff on permanent duty orders. This JTT effort should be supported by a “named operation,” which will provide a method for assigning and resourcing forces and operations in a manner that does not inhibit other military service programs or combatant command operations. Over time, this will facilitate the deployment of rotational forces — both special forces and traditional air and ground unites — to Taiwan. This allows for prioritization of the named operation mission set (i.e., developing integration and interoperability with Taiwan’s forces). Establishing a named operation has also been an effective way to shape the perception of U.S. military activities during great power competition. This is necessary to compete in the information space against the CCP, which is actively wielding misinformation to shape the narrative against American interests, specifically regarding U.S. military activities and commitments in the region.
Appendix II
‘It needs to be a thousand’: US has 500 military trainers on Taiwan, retired admiral says
By SETH ROBSON STARS AND STRIPES
May 27, 2025
[Members of Taiwan’s 564th Armored Brigade hold their flag after demonstrating their ability to repel an airborne attack near Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Jan. 11, 2023. (Seth Robson/Stars and Stripes) ]
About 500 U.S. defense trainers are operating on Taiwan, more than 10 times the number previously disclosed, according to recent congressional testimony by a retired U.S. Navy admiral.
Mark Montgomery, speaking May 15 before the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist party, said the U.S. should double that number to help Taiwan build “a true counter-intervention force.”
“We absolutely have to grow the joint training team in Taiwan,” he told the lawmakers, according to a transcript of his remarks posted on the committee’s website.
Montgomery did not specify whether the personnel are active-duty troops, reservists or civilian contractors.
“It needs to be a thousand,” he said. “If we are going to give them billions of dollars in assistance, sell them tens of billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. gear, it makes sense that we would be over there training and working.”
The U.S. has long provided Taiwan with weapons and military training aimed at deterring Chinese aggression. Beijing views the self-governing island as a breakaway province and has not ruled out the use of force to bring it under control.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has repeatedly stated that reunification with Taiwan is inevitable, and Chinese forces have stepped up military pressure with air and naval exercises around the island in recent years.
While the U.S. does not formally recognize Taiwan diplomatically — a result of its 1979 recognition of China — it maintains unofficial relations under the Taiwan Relations Act, which mandates the provision of arms “of a defensive nature” to Taiwan and a U.S. commitment to resist coercion against the island.
The presence of U.S. military personnel on Taiwan was first confirmed by then-President Tsai Ing-wen in an October 2021 interview with CNN. At the time, she described it as a “small number.” A Congressional Research Service report in May 2024 listed only 41 U.S. military personnel in Taiwan as of December 2023.
Local media reported a significant milestone in bilateral defense cooperation on May 12, when Taiwanese troops fired U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, for the first time during a coastal drill at Jiupeng Base in southern Taiwan.
The 58th Artillery Command launched 33 rockets from 11 launchers into the Pacific Ocean, Taiwan’s state-run Central News Agency reported. Technicians from Lockheed Martin, the system’s U.S. manufacturer, attended the test, said Col. Ho Chih-chung, the unit’s deputy commander.
The scale of the U.S. training mission comes as a surprise, said Ming-Shih Shen, a researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taipei.
The number isn’t fixed, he said in an email Tuesday. “Different people are sent to different projects, such as the Marine Corps, reserves or missile forces,” he wrote.
Shen said U.S. personnel are typically housed by the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. embassy, rather than being hosted by the Taiwanese military.
“We don’t have a comment on specific military operations, engagements, or training,” Andrew Dilbert, a spokesman for the institute, told Stars and Stripes by email Tuesday.
“The United States will continue to support Taiwan in the face of China’s military, economic, informational, and diplomatic pressure campaign,” he said.
Consistent with the Taiwan Relations Act, the U.S. will continue to help Taiwan maintain a sufficient self-defense capability, commensurate with the threat it faces, he said.
“In the future, the number of personnel may be increased due to changes in the situation, or because of increased demand for combat training, or because of the need for US assistance in purchasing new US weapons systems,” Shen wrote. “Some of these personnel may be active duty or reserve personnel.”
SETH ROBSON Seth Robson is a Tokyo-based reporter who has been with Stars and Stripes since 2003. He has been stationed in Japan, South Korea and Germany, with frequent assignments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Australia and the Philippines.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-27/taiwan-military-trainers-testimony-17924124.html
Appendix III
美退將籲駐台聯訓團 擴至千人
促台增國防預算 2028達GDP的5％
旺報 李文輝
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