DEFENSE/Civilian defense chief ends decades-long 'formalities' in armed forces

Taiwan's new civilian Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) has announced a decision to scrap a series of decades-old practices in the nation's armed forces viewed by many experts as mere "formalities."

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