2026 Agenda

Session I – A Moving Deadline: Updated Threat Assessment for 2027 and Beyond  

The first session will provide an updated assessment of existing and future threat scenarios for Taiwan. The panel will evaluate the impact a changing threat picture may have on the balance between near-term readiness investments and long-term, multi-year defense procurement plans. Panelists will also examine whether an extended timeline beyond 2027 could drive a strategic recalibration, and the operational, budgetary, and industrial implications of this potential shift.

Session II – Taiwan’s Whole-of-Society Resilience Approach

The second session will explore how Taiwan’s whole-of-society resilience approach integrates military and civilian readiness into its overall deterrence and preparedness strategy. The panel will discuss challenges to secure technology supply chains, how Taiwan is safeguarding energy, water, and personnel resources, and how it plans to protect transportation and communications networks under a broad range of near-term and long-term threat scenarios.

Session III – Doctrine, Training, Organization

The third session will consider the changing strategic environment and how to ensure that Taiwan’s armed forces are organized, trained, and designed to meet future challenges. The panel will discuss Taiwan’s force planning evolution, examining how changes to doctrine, training, and organizational structures could align to address a broad range of threat scenarios. Panelists will explore Taiwan’s ongoing efforts to integrate unmanned systems, accelerate modernization, improve agility and interoperability, build distributed command structures, and the need for further progress in joint operations and civil-military coordination.