1/ Articles like this should tell planners that Taiwan's army might surrender en masse when the actual fighting comes defence-blog.com/news/army/taiw…
2/ Like, imagine you are Sergeant Drun in the ROCArF. "Sgt Drun hide your tank platoon in this parking garage. Do not move until ordered to"
3/ When T-day comes, you sit tight, while PLA choppers fly overhead and explosions happen all around you. Your comms are dead. You can't move because there's a 5km traffic jam both ways right outside the main exit of your parking garage.
4/ After four hours, your C/O finally gets on the line and tells you to move. You start inching your way out, crunching a few civilian cars on the way. When you get to the main road, your lead tank runs over a mine and explodes.
5/ You radio your C/O for help but he says he can't reach battalion command because they got whacked by a laser-guided bomb 10 minutes ago. The combat engineers are nowhere to be found, so you start backing up again, trying to get off the main road and find local cover
6/ You hide in local cover for another 2 hours while more explosions happen everywhere until your company commander tells you he's being swarmed by a PLA air assault 500m south of your position. You drive over and your lead tank is immediately smacked by an ATGM
7/ You have no idea what just shot at you. Your tank is stuck behind burning wreckage. Choppers are screaming overhead. You radio your company commander and hear nothing. Your gunner has already peed himself and you can already smell it.
end/ It's not hard to imagine whole units surrendering at that point, as subunits are dispersed across urban terrain with civilian vehicles clogging all axes of movement, comms jammed, and Chinese airpower mercilessly hunting ROCArF vehicles with no hope of survival.
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