Taiwan's army is rolling out a new battlefield mental-health technique meant to get stressed-out soldiers back into the fight within minutes, a quiet but telling sign of how seriously Taipei is preparing for a possible conflict with China.

• Borrowed from the U.S. military, the method (called ICOVER) was adapted from an Israeli technique and is meant for instant recovery, not long-term therapy.
• It teaches soldiers to spot a comrade who has frozen up under combat stress, then calm them with touch, eye contact, and simple fact-based questions before giving them a clear, simple task to restore their sense of control.
• The army says losing just one soldier to stress can cost a small combat team two fighters, since someone else has to stop and help, so fast recovery directly preserves combat strength.
• This is part of a broader push by Taiwan's army to make training more realistic, alongside a new base-training program that drops scripted drills in favor of free-form exercises.
• The moves come as China keeps pressuring Taiwan with military flights, ships, and drills near the island.

Outlook: Expect Taiwan to keep folding this kind of psychological-resilience training into standard military education as it continues preparing for potential conflict with China.