Palmer Luckey wants Taiwan to think bigger than supplying its own military.
At a Sept. 19 forum in Taipei, the Anduril Industries founder argued that Taiwan should design defense products for overseas buyers from the start and build production at a scale large enough to make other countries depend on Taiwanese supply.
“Taiwan has to become a very powerful defense exporter,” Luckey said, adding that domestic orders alone are too small to sustain the industrial base needed for long-term deterrence.
Taiwan is already moving in that direction.
Eight days earlier, it promulgated the Act for Strengthening National Defense Autonomy and Development of the Unmanned Vehicle Industry, which requires the central government to budget NT$240 billion over six years—about $7.6 billion—to implement a new industrial framework for unmanned systems. …