The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is pleased to announce the release of a special issue of the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (JIPA), a peer-reviewed military journal published by Air University (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama), the intellectual and leadership development center of the US Air Force and US Space Force. The spring 2025 issue of JIPA is a theme issue focused on Taiwan defense issues, jointly curated and edited by JIPA Editor Dr. Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell and GTI Deputy Director John Dotson. The articles selected for this special issue address a range of complex issues related to Taiwan’s defense, including human resources concerns, strategy, force structure, and the challenge of non-kinetic political warfare. GTI Advisor Wallace “Chip” Gregson and GTI Senior Non-Resident Fellow Eric Chan are among the distinguished contributors to this issue. The nine articles contained in the issue are:
· Lt. Gen. Wallace “Chip” Gregson (USMC, ret.): “Taiwan Can Strengthen the Human Component of its Armed Forces through Greater Civil Society Engagement”
· John Dotson: “Taiwan’s Defense Policies in Evolution”
· Kerry K. Gershaneck and Eric Chan: “Political Warfare against Intervention Forces”
· Dr. Gregory J. Moore, “Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Dashboard: Considering Xi’s Calculus for a Possible Move on Taiwan”
· CPT Andrew Faulhaber (US Army): “The Art of Protracted War: A Taiwanese Insurgency the Maoist Way and the US Department of Defense’s Role”
· CDR Jeremy (Yen-ming) Chen: “The Challenges Taiwan Faces in Cognitive Warfare and Its Impact on US-Taiwan Relations”
· Dr. Jared M. McKinney: “Is a Coming War in the Taiwan Strait a Myth?: A Review Essay”
· K. Tristan Tang: “Less Politics, More Military: The Outlook for China’s 2025 Military Incursions into Taiwan’s Airspace and Waters”
· Major Nicholas Stockdale (USAF): “Air Power Has a Mass of Its Own: Predicting an Air Order-of-Battle for a Taiwan Conflict”
The spring 2025 issue of the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs may be accessed here.
