Taiwan’s got a military model that’s very similar to Israel’s and that’s an issue that comes up very often when the Taiwanese learn that I’m Israeli and try to compare Israel and Taiwan. Both countries are of the same size, more or less the same economic strength, and are faced by generally similar threats from surrounding powers. Not many of the Taiwanese students I know have actually done military service, and those who have were not in combat positions, and so I lack general basic information about how the Taiwanese army compares to what I know about the Israeli army. When discussing this issue we do simple comparisons : Israeli boys serve 3 years, Israeli girls 2 years, most combat personnel …