What is China learning from the Ukraine-Russian war? What are the parallels between the Russian invasion and a hypothetical invasion of Taiwan by China’s People’s Liberation Army? And what should the United States do to prepare Taiwan for an attack from China?

Today we sit down with Lieutenant Colonel Guermantes Lailari, retired United States Air Force Foreign Area Officer specializing in irregular warfare and missile defense, to talk about the parallels between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the hypothetical scenario of an invasion of Taiwan by the People’s Liberation Army.

We also talk about the case for the United States and its allies building a multi-layer missile defense system in Taiwan, which Lieutenant Colonel spoke to based on his experience working with missile defense systems in Israel.