[Skybird]

No, it will begin with a barrage of missiles and drones and jamming attempts and more missiles to destroy as much of the defences as possible. Maybe with a navel blockade forgoing this, but that is not a must since it would kill the element of surprise. Aircraft will attack, too, if they get through, else: missiles.



An invasion force will start to move only when they see a chance to get enough of it onto the beach to keep their chances. Until then they will bombard Taiwan and will not stop any time soon. Obviously they will bombard with missiles, drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, from air, from land, from ships. The goal is both to reduce defences and to destroy industrial capacity and critical infrastructure.



The attack will start relatively suprisingly.



Taiwan needs air intercept missile to reduce the aerial and missile bombardement, and then needs anti ship missile to reduce the invasion fleet, and then needs ground missiles and Javelin-style missiles and Stinge rmissiles (shoulderpad-style missiles) to deal with whatever makes it onto land.



The numbers are against Taiwa and its allies, if there will be any. Thats why it is not promising to invets ehaiuvl,y into expensive big targets like tanks and ships. Missiles of all sorts and ranges, and drones. But these in abundance. Lessons from Ukraine.


Xi is very well accepting to not wage a war of traditional conquest but a war of subjugation: which could very well be a war of annihilation if resistence is too stiff. And then taking the emptied island and moving conmtinatal Chinese in as settlers. Population exchange - also a form of conquest.