The army’s brigade-level exercises later this month would adopt a nonstop 24-hour training format to test military personnel in various scenarios, including nighttime combat, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said.
The drills would be under the command of the 6th Army Corps and would be held from Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, a report by the ministry-affiliated Youth Daily News on Saturday quoted Lieutenant General and 6th Army Corps Commander-in-Chief Li Tien-lung (李天龍) as saying.
The drills would focus on decentralized command, the forces’ capability to manage the flow of intelligence and logistics, and would be combat-oriented, the report said.
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During the exercises, two army brigades would simulate real combat — the Armored 586 Brigade of the 10th Army Corps, which is responsible for defense in central Taiwan, and the 8th Army Corps’ 333 Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which is based in southern Taiwan — a military source said separately on Saturday.
Li said the exercises would be a non-stop drill over the five-day period to test and train the troops in a wide range of scenarios, which would also cover nighttime combat.
The 24-hour training format was first adopted in late July during the Han Kuang military exercises, the country’s major annual military drills, but the five-day exercises were cut short due to Typhoon Gaemi.
Such exercises at the brigade level can help train combat troops, brigade commanders and chiefs of staff to improve their decisionmaking, Institute for National Defense and Security Research research fellow Su Tzu-yun (蘇紫雲) said.
The mobilization of the brigade’s battalions would train the troops in different battlefield scenarios, Su said.
He also said that reservists might be called up to join the exercises for the first time as part of their required 14-day training, given that the goal set out during the first meeting of the Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee, which was convened by President William Lai (賴清德) on Sept. 26, was to enhance national defense.
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