Taiwan’s new Defense Minister Wellington Koo has recently stated that he will form a new asymmetric warfare unit based on the United States’ Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). This proposal aims to integrate research on the development of military and civil defense technology, and boost the island’s asymmetric warfare capabilities in the face of growing military threats from China.
As part of his new administration, Koo announced that the priorities during his position would be based on boosting asymmetric warfare capabilities, joint warfare capabilities and the resilience of the entire society, as well as continuing to reform the reserve forces of Taiwan.
But in particular, as asymmetric warfare is based, the management objective is to counter the advanced capabilities of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with smaller and more mobile teams. In that sense, the minister said that a new military unit similar to the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) of the United States Department of Defense will be activated from his portfolio.
This new version, which will depend on the Integrated Evaluation Department of the Ministry of National Defense (MND), will function as a platform where resources will be combined with the capabilities of the MND’s main research unit, the Chung-Shan National Institute of Science and Technology, and other civil companies linked to defense technology. All this with a limited budget.
The official also mentioned this new DIU unit will focus on investing in relatively advanced defense technologies, such as new generation unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned ships, to maintain Taiwan’s current advantage in terms of asymmetric warfare in the defense of the Strait. from Taiwan.
It should be mentioned that the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) of the United States Department of Defense is relatively new. Founded in 2015, the organization under the United States Department of Defense (DoD) was created to assist the US military in the creation and adoption of new technologies that transform and strengthen the country’s national security capabilities. American. Today, DIU manages six portfolios dedicated to solving national security demand in AI/ML (artificial intelligence/machine learning), Autonomy, Cyber Systems, Human Systems, Energy and Space.
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