This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. The conflict over Taiwan. What is to be done?

I welcome Grant Neuthem, U.S. Marine Corps Colonel retired, now the author of

when Japan attacks and now the author of a new essay about the anticipation of conflict in Western Pacific East Asia with the People's

Republic of China, a chapter in a new book called The Boiling Moat edited by Matt Potenter.

It is filled with comments and observations by veterans of conflict in the Pacific for many years.

U.S. participates, Australia, in the Pacific for many years.

U.S. participates, Australia participates,

all of the Allied nations participate

in anticipating what is to be done,

anxious about the Chinese aggression in the South China Sea across across from the

Okinawa Island chain at the Sencoccoes, pushing very hard at the Philippines.

All of this is anticipated in this book, The Boiling Moat.

So I welcome Grant, and we are going to turn to the chapter

that he provides about Japan and Japan's

participation in the defense of Taiwan. You will recall that Prime Minister

Kishida has made it very clear that if Taiwan is attacked Japan's in, what does that mean?

Grant a very good evening to you, the Japan Self-Defense Forces.

The numbers are significant here to me because if for the first time I have a concept of what it is and how big it is right now.

250,000 personnel, I follow you're reporting, 150,000 personnel, I follow your reporting, 150,000 for Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces,

the Marines, the Army.

50,000 each for the Maritime Self-Defense Forces and the Air Self-defense forces. That would be the Navy and the

Marine Corps. That is a significant amount of force but spread out over these vast distances. It doesn't look as challenging as when you see the

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