Will More Boots and Fewer Boats Deter a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan?

Is putting more U.S. forces in Taiwan and on islands just off the coast of mainland China a winning strategy?

Tourists visiting the anti-landing spikes on the coast of Kinmen, the front-line islands of Taiwan, on Oct. 20, 2020. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images

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U.S. Army Special Forces—and possibly other units—will be deployed on Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, about two miles off the coast of mainland China.