According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network" on January 1, Taiwan's compulsory service will resume for one year from 2024, and the defense department of the Taiwan authorities is worried that incidents such as troop atrocities, disobedience, and desertion may occur frequently, and the feasibility of revising regulations and resuming military trials is not high in internal assessment. Although the responsible person of Taiwan's supreme procuratorial organ has instructed that cases of affecting the execution of tasks or training by military personnel should be "promptly investigated and strictly handled," retired generals are still worried about the results of enforcement.
In 2013, Taiwan revised the relevant regulations on military trials, and non-wartime crimes committed by military personnel were transferred to ordinary judicial organs for handling, but 10 years later, the sequelae have emerged, and there have been repeated incidents of atrocities committed by troops and disobedience, and the prosecution has either not been prosecuted, postponed prosecution, or received light sentences in the courts.
The two retired generals, who had served as commanders at the regimental level, both believed that young people now advocate freedom and do not like to be disciplined, and they cannot do without mobile phones and the Internet, and that after the resumption of the military service period for one year, the number of deserters will certainly increase, and this will be a thorny problem in the army's discipline.
For example, there are retired generals who have failed to return for 20 days after their leave of absence, and those who have been sentenced to 20 days of criminal detention by the judiciary, and even have not been prosecuted, and some officers have not returned to the camp after participating in the exercise and training, and they have only been fined for 12 days after the deadline.
Shen Shiwei, head of the legal affairs department of the Taiwan authorities' defense department, also said that during the four-month military training, there have been cases of atrocities and other major violations of the law, and after the one-year compulsory service is enlisted in the camp, similar cases will continue unabated.
Another retired general frankly said that in the 10 years since the transfer of military law to justice, what he has seen has had a great impact on the morale and leadership of the Taiwan military, and the grassroots cadres in the army do not dare to take care of it, and as soon as they take charge of their subordinates, they will be sued, and company commanders and battalion commanders often have to go to court.
In addition, according to Taiwan's "** Press" on December 31, the one-year compulsory service will resume on January 1, 2024, and Jie Zhong, an associate researcher at the Policy Research Association, pointed out that whether the Taiwan military can extend the service period will increase year by year to about 5 per year in the futureThe 40,000 men who are conscripted are worrying to be well trained and served.
According to Jiezhong's analysis, taking the 13-week base training that has a bearing on the formation of the core combat strength of the infantry battalion as an example, the only bases in Taiwan that can carry out large-scale field training are Hsinchu Hukou and Tainan's Baihe, and it is still difficult for the joint battalion composed of volunteer soldiers to conduct training every year, and the vast majority of the infantry battalion base training for compulsory soldiers can only be carried out in the field near the station, and only enter the base for relevant tests at the final stage.
Jie Zhong believes that the base training of conscripts may not be worthy of the name because there is no venue that meets the standards, and even degenerate into repeated monotonous training and service near the station, which not only helps to improve combat effectiveness, but may also cause resentment among conscripts.