{
  "id": 2720,
  "url": "https://warontherocks.com/the-three-nevers-to-invade-taiwan-china-would-have-to-make-military-history-thrice",
  "title": "The Three Nevers: To Invade Taiwan, China Would Have to Make Military History Thrice",
  "summary": "The amphibious invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, remains the largest and most complex amphibious operation in history. On the first day alone, Allied forces landed eight divisions, including five amphibious assault and three airborne, totaling roughly 160,000 personnel. That force more than doubled within days.Normandy was unprecedented in scale but not in kind. A Taiwan invasion would present the reverse problem: Taiwan’s size is not the unprecedented part — the operational challenges are. ",
  "authors": "Jay McVann",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-01T07:15:02.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-war-on-the-rocks",
  "source_name": "War on the Rocks",
  "source_homepage": "https://warontherocks.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2720",
  "original_url": "https://warontherocks.com/the-three-nevers-to-invade-taiwan-china-would-have-to-make-military-history-thrice",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}