Ep 144: Mark Montgomery on Defending Taiwan (Boiling Moat #2)
Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at FDD and contributor to The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan, joins the show to talk about Taiwan, tensions in the South China Sea, and more.
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Show Notes
Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at FDD and contributor to The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan, joins the show to talk about Taiwan, tensions in the South China Sea, and more.
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• 01:27 Introduction
• 02:00 Why the Navy?
• 04:05 PACOM
• 06:53 Working with Senator McCain
• 10:51 Resource prioritization
• 15:19 Shortsighted decisions
• 19:56 Sink China’s Navy
• 25:30 Is Taiwan ready?
• 30:35 Imitate Estonia
• 33:31 Sensor complexes
• 37:26 Missile defense
• 43:30 Nuclear escalation
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