The US Navy’s elite special operations unit, SEAL Team 6, has been training to “help Taiwan” in case of a “Chinese invasion,” according to the Financial Times. The unit is most famous for the 2011 mission that killed Al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
SEAL Team 6 “has been planning and training for a Taiwan conflict for more than a year at Dam Neck, its headquarters at Virginia Beach about 250km south-east of Washington,” FT reported on Thursday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The US has sent some special forces to Taiwan in the past several years, to train the island’s military against a possible attack from the mainland. No details were given about the SEAL activity, which is “highly classified.”
The US Special Operations Command referred any questions about the Taiwan plans to the Pentagon, which did not comment on specific details.