The head of the Taiwan defense department, Qiu Guozheng, has characterized the civil defense organization on the island as a "guerrilla", which has aroused many concerns, although the relevant organization has denied it, but the public opinion in the island is still worried about whether the civil defense organization will become an irregular armed organization in the future. It has been commented that these members of civil defense organizations may be judged by the outside world as people who can carry guns to the front line of the battlefield or can do wartime first aid, but they are actually not trained enough to have such skills. Some people in Taiwan have criticized the Taiwan authorities for frequently playing up the atmosphere of "war preparation", which is simply creating panic.

Civil defense in Taiwan began during the Japanese colonial rule, and in 1945, after the Kuomintang authorities took over, the "Taiwan Air Defense Command" was established to organize air defense and evacuation, and it was renamed "Taiwan Civil Defense Command" in 1949. In 1973, responsibility for civil defense was transferred from the defense Department to the "Interior Department", and the police department took over the civil defense infrastructure.

Taiwan's "Civil Defense Law" provides for the establishment of four civil defense units: civil defense Corps (commanded by the heads of counties and cities), Civil defense Corps (headed by the heads of townships and districts), special protection Corps (employees of important facilities such as railways and ports), and joint protection Corps (schools, companies, etc., with more than 100 people).

The island has always had the civil defense Corps and the counties and cities of the people self-organized watch and help team, rescue association, rescue association, emergency association, mountain association, water rescue association and so on.

By 2022, there are 420,000 registered volunteers in Taiwan's civil defense units, and the average training hours of civil defense personnel are four to eight hours per year.

In May this year, Tsai Ing-wen's authorities recruited civil defense personnel through the police system, which was criticized in the island as playing the "war card" for the election.

Luo Qingsheng, executive director of the International Strategic Institute, wrote that the people are pushed to the front line because any people armed or trained by radical ideology, once encouraged by ambitious politicians, can easily develop into violent organizations that even the authorities cannot control.

Some Kuomintang people said that if they do not have military posts, police, reserve military identity, guns on the battlefield may be incomprehensible response.

Island officials with teaching experience said that young Taiwanese must understand the international law of armed conflict and that once they take up a gun, they are not protected by the Geneva Conventions.

Some commentators believe that these irregular forces cannot confront real military forces, and can only go to the edge, and finally drag the people into the water.

The article warned that if Mr. Lai is elected, "it is already clear that the two sides are at peace or at war."