New agency to oversee mobilization of reservesRESTRUCTURING: The All-out Defense Mobilization Office and the Armed Forces Reserve Command are to be folded into a ‘defense reserve mobilization agency’Staff writer, with CNAThe military is to form a new reserve mobilization agency while expanding the scope of civilian forces that can be mobilized as part of its efforts to bolster the nation’s reserve forces amid increasing threats from China, the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday. The ministry would integrate two existing military agencies — the All-out Defense Mobilization Office and the Armed Forces Reserve Command — into a “defense reserve mobilization agency” by January next year, the report said. The act forms the legal basis for the defense ministry to mobilize civilian forces. It defines volunteers the defense ministry can mobilize in case of need as volunteer police officers and volunteer firefighters. The defense ministry in February said that starting next year, it would introduce new rules governing the call-up of reservists to improve their combat readiness.

Source: Taipei Times April 20, 2021 15:56 UTC