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ROC Armed Forces Reserve Command

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ROC Armed Forces Reserve Command

國防部後備指揮部

TAIWAN · ALL-OUT DEFENSE MOBILIZATION AGENCY · COMMAND

Part of All-out Defense Mobilization Agency

Taiwan / ROCActive
Assessed as of
2026-09
Reviewed
2026-09-09
Confidence
moderate
  • State affiliation · Taiwan
  • Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance

State affiliation: Taiwan.

Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.

In brief

The troop command that administers Taiwan's reserve system, kept as a distinct organisation beneath the mobilisation agency rather than merged into it.

Scope
Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
Subordination
Subordination confirmed
Sources
4 on the record
Record state
Partial

Broad area of activity

Taiwan and its administered territories, working through county and municipal governments

Notable history

The Armed Forces Reserve Command is the older of the two bodies that the 2022 reform brought together: when the All-out Defense Mobilization Agency was created on 1 January 2022 by merging the mobilisation policy office with this command, the Reserve Command was not abolished but continued as an affiliated organisation beneath the new agency. That distinction is the substance of the reform rather than a filing detail — policy and force generation were put under one roof while the troop command that actually runs call-ups kept its own identity and chain. The 2026 change to a uniform fourteen-day education mobilisation call-up, replacing the earlier five-to- seven-day programme, is administered here.

Strengths

A standing command with the registration records and county-level relationships that a mobilisation depends on, and a single administrative owner for a training standard that was previously inconsistent.

Limitations

A command can standardise a call-up and cannot produce a capable reserve; the ministry's own reported figures — such as the rate at which reservists are matched to their original posts — are administrative outcomes, not demonstrations. Reserve quality is contested among Taiwan's own analysts, and Vigil publishes no reserve strengths, no call-up capacity, no mobilisation timelines and no readiness assessment.

Related organisations

  • ROC Army Institutionally linked to · as of 2026-09 · moderate confidence

    Reserve call-up and training are executed principally through army structures; the command administers the system rather than holding the formations that receive the reservists.

Key events

June 2026moderate confidence

Reserve call-ups standardised at fourteen days

Taiwan's defence ministry confirms in June 2026 that all education mobilisation call-ups are standardised at fourteen days, replacing the previous five-to-seven-day programme and removing the double-credit arrangement that had softened the fourteen-day format since it was piloted in 2022. The ministry reports a 93 per cent match rate for the policy of returning reservists to their original posts, allowing training in fixed groups, and states an intention to expand realistic training and to revise regulations covering female reservists. Reserve mobilisation is administered by the All-Out Defense Mobilization Agency, formed on 1 January 2022 by merging the mobilisation office with the Armed Forces Reserve Command.

Assessed as of2026-09Last reviewed2026-09-09

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Related structure

2 records that this organisation names, or that name it. Every one is an explicit reference in a published record — nothing here is inferred from subject matter.

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