Last month, the Ministry of National Defense announced plans to form a new reserve mobilization agency, integrating two existing military agencies — the All-out Defense Mobilization Office and the Armed Forces Reserve Command — into a new “defense reserve mobilization agency” by January next year. During a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee on April 19, Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) told legislators that the proposed reforms to the military reserve system would include amending the Civilian Defense Act (民防法) to allow the military to mobilize post-disaster relief volunteer workers at Buddhist and Taoist