Taiwan's Security and Air Power: Taiwan's Defense Against the Air Threat from Mainland China

Book Description
This book brings together a range of experts from the West and from Taiwan itself who examine the key issues connected with Taiwan's air power, which is a key aspect of the China-Taiwan military balance.

About the Author
Martin Edmonds is Professorial Fellow and Director of the Centre for Defense and International Security Studies at Lancaster University. He is also (founding) Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Defence and Security Analysis (Taylor & Francis) and co-Director (with Profesor Keith Hartley) of the Lancaster and York Universities Defense Research Institute. Michael M. Tsai is currently the Deputy Taipei Representative i Washington DC with specific responsibility for Taiwan's relations with the US Department of Defense and the US Armed Forces. A member of the DPP, he served as adviser to the Organizational Planning Committee of the Ministry of National Defense. He is the publisher of Taiwan Defense Affairs, and founder of the Institute for Taiwan Defense Strategic Studies (ITDSS).


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This book brings together a range of experts from the West and from Taiwan itself, who examine the key issues connected with Taiwan's air power, which is a key aspect of the China-Taiwan military balance. During the 1990s, Taiwan invested considerable resources in thoroughly reequipping its air force with modern US and French air defense and strike aircraft equipped with modern guided missiles and American surface-to-air guided missiles, thereby denying China command of the air in any conflict in the short to medium term. These weapons were supplemented with indigenously designed and developed combat aircraft and air defense missiles. In the longer term, air power will remain a crucial influence on the overall balance as China's efforts to upgrade its own Air Force's capabilities begin to undermine Taiwan's current advantages.


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