Flooding the Zone (Final Cut)
China's Plan to Invade Taiwan
In this video, I break down the PLA’s over-the-shore logistics strategy for a Taiwan contingency. From civilian landing craft to the three-part artificial pier system known as Shuiqiao, China is working to solve the hardest problem in amphibious warfare:
This video deployment was an absolute nightmare. First, I accidentally released to Substack Version without giving free members access to the YouTube Version.
Then, when I corrected the mistake, I gave everyone a link to a private video. Sometimes this stuff happens, especially since I was going crazy with so many TV appearances.
But here is the final cut of the video. Thank you all for your patience.
-Ryan



…those giant pier structure landing craft seem like a juicy target for one of our mantra ray autonomous subs which has been laying on the bottom of the Taiwan Starights for weeks or months. 🤔
We ran through a lot of our smart munitions in last year's attack against Iran. Further depleting it in the current war. Do you think this will affect China's calculations?