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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Times 
    •      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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