According to a report in NBC, “David Ochmanek, a former senior Defense Department official who helps run war games for the Pentagon at the RAND Corp. think tank,” stated that recent war games run by the U.S. indicate that America would not be able to defend Taiwan if war broke out between the island and the mainland. “In tabletop exercises with America as the `blue team’ facing off against a `red team’ resembling China, Taiwan’s air force is wiped out within minutes, U.S. air bases across the Pacific come under attack, and American warships and aircraft are held at bay by the long reach of China’s vast missile arsenal, he said,” according to NBC.
The Pentagon will also be conducting highly classified wargames this summer against fictionalized Russian and Chinese enemies and “a global crisis erupting on multiple fronts,” according to an unconfirmed report in CNN.