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Military Announces Action Plan To Address Shrinking Personnel
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11 months ago
Taiwan's defense ministry has announced plans to tackle the military's growing personnel crisis. In addition to the number of officers leaving their service prematurely, the armed forces are also struggling to attract new recruits.
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Taiwan's defense ministry has announced an action plan to tackle the country's military
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personnel crisis.
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Recent reports show a steep increase in the number of officers choosing to leave service
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early, quadrupling in the last four years from around 400 in 2020 to almost 1,600 last
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year.
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And that's not all.
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The total number of volunteers and military personnel, currently around 166,000, has also
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dropped over three percent in the last year alone, a trend that looks set to continue.
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The defense ministry is saying that there's more competition for young talent these days
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and people are generally just less interested in military careers, and have outlined an
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action plan.
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They want to reduce the number of people leaving military service, increase retainment figures
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â meaning keeping more personnel on for longer â and improving recruitment efforts.
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I spoke to a security analyst earlier about what he thinks Taiwan might do to try and
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address these retainment and recruitment issues.
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How do recruitment issues actually impact Taiwan's military?
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Of course, the dangers of having an understaffed military are obvious.
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Taiwan is still waiting on huge orders of military equipment from the U.S., but without
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the muscle to operate that equipment, Taiwan will be left vulnerable.
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The country's firepower and ability to defend itself naturally impacted.
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Ryan Wu, Scott Huang and Rhys Ayres in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.
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