In the last two and a half years the Ministry of National Defense has raised the state of military alert from fifth-degree to fourth-degree on two occasions, first at the time of the Tienanmen massacre in Peking, and second when war finally broke out in the Persian Gulf early this year.
最近二年半內，國防部曾兩次將國軍戰備由五級提昇至四級。一次是前年的天安門事件發生時；另一次則是年初波斯灣戰爭爆發之際。