{"id":2571,"date":"2026-06-21T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2026-06-21T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:07:32","slug":"taiwan-to-stage-five-days-of-combat-readiness-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan to stage five days of combat readiness drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>TAIPEI, June 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Taiwan&#8217;s military will hold a five-day combat readiness drill this week, the defence \u200cministry said on Sunday, as part of modernisation plans to shift its training focus to more realistic exercises simulating war, away from setpiece events.<\/div>\n<div>Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory despite the objections of the government in Taipei, \u200bsays China&#8217;s armed forces routinely operate in the skies and seas around the island \u200bin an effort to pressure it to accept Chinese sovereignty.<\/div>\n<div>Taiwan&#8217;s military has begun \u2060basing some of its drills on a scenario in which China suddenly turns one of its \u200bregular exercises around the island into an actual attack.<\/div>\n<div>The &#8220;Immediate Combat Readiness Exercise&#8221; would start on Monday and \u200brun until Friday, the defence ministry said in a statement, describing the drill as part of annual training plans in joint operations for the armed forces.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The main objective is to train units at all levels to become familiar \u200bwith combat practices and the battlefield environment during the readiness deployment phase,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div>The exercise would \u200balso help to strengthen rapid peacetime-to-wartime transitions and priority deployments, it added, with &#8220;actual troops, on actual terrain, in \u200creal time, \u2060using actual equipment, and through actual implementation&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>It will hone command mechanisms and combat-oriented capabilities of the troops, with an emphasis on improving joint operations command and control, logistical sustainment, and battlefield preparation, the ministry said.<\/div>\n<div>The announcement came on the same day the ministry said China had sent another large \u200bnumber of military aircraft into \u200bthe skies near \u2060Taiwan.<\/div>\n<div>There were 21 aircraft, including J-16 fighters, KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft, and Y-20 aerial refuelling aircraft, it added.<\/div>\n<div>Nineteen of them entered the \u200bairspace to Taiwan&#8217;s southwest and into the Western Pacific to conduct &#8220;long-distance training \u200bover open seas&#8221;, \u2060it added.<\/div>\n<div>Taiwan sent its own forces to &#8220;respond appropriately&#8221;, the ministry said, using the standard wording for its response.<\/div>\n<div>Telephone calls to China&#8217;s defence ministry to seek comment were not answered outside office hours on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div>Taiwan \u2060regularly holds \u200bmilitary drills, including earlier this month, when it fired \u200bits new U.S.-made HIMARS rocket system, which is widely used by Ukraine, into the Taiwan Strait.<\/div>\n<div>Taiwan&#8217;s main annual Han Kuang war games \u200bare expected to take place in August.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2570\">India recall Kohli for England ODI tour, subject to fitness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2568\">Bangladesh\u2019s premier looks to China, Malaysia for investment, jobs in first trip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2566\">Japan rout Tunisia 4-0 as Ueda shines in World Cup\u2019s 1,000th match<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s military will hold a five-day combat readiness drill this week, the defence \u200cministry said on Sunday, as part of modernisation plans to shift its training focus to more realistic exercises simulating war, away from setpiece events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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