How Taiwan Could Depend on Sea Mines to Stop Chinese Invasion
Naval mines, a cheap and easy to employ naval tactic, could be key to deterring China from invading Taiwan, experts argue.
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Naval mines, a cheap and easy to employ naval tactic, could be key to deterring China from invading Taiwan, experts argue.
Mines have a long history of reshaping naval warfare, both by damaging individual ships and by countering the actions of entire fleets. Remarkably, though, one way to make them even more effective is to take a “back to the future” approach in which vintage mine technologies, even some dating a century or more, are employed alongside modern capabilities.
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Scott Savitz is a senior engineer at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Much of his research focuses on how to improve the effectiveness and resilience of operational forces through the use of new technologies and modified tactics. He has developed numerous models and simulations in support of such analyses.