ABOUT STRAIT OUTTA TAIWAN
Strait Outta Taiwan is a Taipei-based newsletter and research platform focused on Taiwan’s defense innovation ecosystem, drones and unmanned systems, dual-use technology, industrial strategy, and allied defense-tech cooperation.
Most discussions of Taiwan’s defense focus on strategy. Far less attention is paid to how capability is actually built.
Strait Outta Taiwan examines how defense and dual-use capabilities are developed, scaled, and constrained across Taiwan’s defense innovation ecosystem and industrial base, as well as the structural factors that shape outcomes over time.
The analysis draws on open-source materials, on-the-ground access, ecosystem mapping, and comparative insights across Taiwan, U.S., and allied systems in the Indo-Pacific and the Euro-Atlantic.
It explains what works, what stalls, and why.
Strait Outta Taiwan is designed for policymakers, industry leaders, and investors navigating Taiwan’s defense and dual-use technology landscape.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND HERE
Strait Outta Taiwan is structured across five core formats:
Strait Takes — Concise analysis of Taiwan and Indo-Pacific security developments.
Strait Dives — Deep analysis of Taiwan’s defense ecosystem, industrial base, and innovation system, focused on how capability is built and scaled in practice.
Strait Insights — Field-informed analysis drawn from on-the-ground experience, engagements, and comparative cases across allied ecosystems.
Strait Signals (in development) — What China’s defense technologies and national security activities signal for Taiwan’s security and operational environment.
Taiwan Defense Tech Brief (forthcoming) — Curated open-source market and ecosystem intelligence on key developments shaping Taiwan’s defense and dual-use technology landscape.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bryce C. Barros is a defense innovation and dual-use technology strategist focused on Taiwan, U.S., and allied cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
He is a former U.S. Senate National Security Advisor and has supported the U.S. Department of Defense’s innovation efforts. His experience spans national security policy, emerging technology, and geoeconomic statecraft, including work at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Kharon.
He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taipei, an Associate Fellow at GLOBSEC’s GeoTech Center, a Defence Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and a Global Taiwan Institute Scholar.
He is also a Council on Foreign Relations Stephen M. Kellen Term Member and has lived in Taiwan and China for nearly six years.
