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Porcupine Defender!

New kind of mini-/browser-game with a serious angle: "Porcupine Defender"!

When it comes to defending Taiwan, recent surveys show that most people think that they need to rely on the US once Winnie the Poo attacks. Many feel that they are helpless on their own, when facing the threat of an invasion. However, this way of thinking is not only a fallacy, but even more so, a good way to lose your personal freedom and democracy to a hostile force.

The idea that Taiwan can and must (to a large extent) defend itself is well established. Two buzzwords often arise in that context: (1) "asymetric warfare" and (2) the porcupine doctrine. The idea is simple: in order to defend itself, Taiwan does not need to "win a war" against a superior force, it only needs to make an attack sufficiently costly/difficult and/or dangerous (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_Armed_Forces#Strategy).

"Porcupine Defender" visualizes how that is possible. It visualizes (among other things), Taiwan's primary military assets, high value political/economical assets and (maybe most importantly) logistics of reserve participation. It simulates one possible version of the ODC - Overall Defense Concept (https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/taiwans-overall-defense-concept-explained/). Get a sense of how Taiwan's 165k active and 1.6M reserve military personnel can definitively win against an overwhelming force of thousands of conventional missiles, thousands of aircraft, hundreds of warships and hundreds of thousands of invading soldiers rolling tens of thousands of war vehicles down the ramps of (only?) dozens of amphibious landing vehicles, mostly in the form of re-purposed civilian ferries (https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4318076).

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