00:00Why do you think the U.S. and Israel's weapons systems have been effective in the current Middle East conflicts?
00:06What has been a decisive factor?
00:09Israel and the United States bring overwhelming air superiority. I mean, right now, Israel and the United States control the
00:16skies over Iran. There's no doubt about it. And they can basically do whatever they want from the air.
00:22And the second is on the defense side. Both the U.S. and Israel and the U.S.'s allies in
00:30the Middle East, the Middle Eastern countries, for example, they all have a common, similar, multilayered missile defense.
00:38So that's really important because it means it's all integrated. Everybody knows if there's a missile coming, where it's going,
00:44and they can decide which system to use against it.
00:49And the third is deeply integrated intelligence. Again, the U.S. and Israel, you can have air superiority, but if
00:59you don't have information on what targets to hit, it doesn't really mean anything.
01:04So the integrated intelligence aspect, all aspects, is very important.
01:12Taiwan has proposed the idea of the Taiwan Dome, an advanced air defense system.
01:18Are there any lessons Taiwan can learn from these Middle East conflicts, such as a better integration of different weapons
01:24systems?
01:25So the integration is important of all the, all the different missile defense systems, the Skybo, three and four, the
01:34PAC-3s, the NASAMs.
01:36Those are all the missiles, missile defense systems that are in Taiwan, and they need to be connected and integrated
01:44and deconflicted.
01:46You know, when you have a missile coming in, you don't want five different systems hitting it.
01:50You want, you want a system that will coordinate and decide and help humans decide which system should be used.
01:59In Israel, it's, it's, it's, it's done this way.
02:03How do you assess the use of drones in this conflict? What does that mean for future warfare?
02:09The, the, the main idea behind these drones is that they're cheap and they're very effective.
02:16And also these, these drones can hit not only military targets, but they can hit economic targets.
02:22That's another part, the swarming, you know, overwhelming the defenses of any, any place that you're trying to defend is
02:28another problem that the drones can do, especially with AI.
02:30And so besides focusing on defense, let's say missile defense, Taiwan needs to focus also on offense and bringing the
02:40headache to the, the people's liberation army, whether, whether, wherever they are, whether in sea, in the air, underwater, or
02:48hopefully, hopefully not on Taiwanese territory.
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