Taiwan Plans 'Immediate Combat Readiness Drills' for Its Military

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Taiwan's military is planning a new kind of "immediate combat readiness exercise" in response to increasingly aggressive gray-zone warfare tactics from China.

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00:00Taiwan's military says it will conduct immediate combat readiness drills on March 17th to test

00:06how quickly the armed forces can mobilize in the event of war.

00:10The defense minister says the exercises will last five days and all three service branches

00:15will participate.

00:16The military says that no live ammunition will be used, but soldiers across the country

00:21will be carrying out realistic plans.

00:23A source within the military says the drills are a warm-up for the actual annual Hanguang

00:28exercises in July.

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