崔怡楓 臉書
中正理工學院82年班，國立師範大學博士 長期於海軍負責戰場環境經營 曾任海軍大氣海洋局局長，現為國防大學理工學院院長。
這幾年的年度體檢，開始有了運動心電圖的項目，每次戴著儀器在跑步機上時，總會想起一位遠去的長官。
過去在海軍總部服務時，他曾擔任過我的組長及副處長，我們共事的時間其實並不長，但他卻是一位令我難忘的長官，源於他的嚴格作風與急躁性格。
所以在他底下作事的壓力可想而之，加班是常有的事，而且還不一定能完成，但也是因為這種壓力，使我感到在工作上成長許多，尤其是在蒐集資料方面。
記得有一次臨時被找去支援，時值中共駐南斯拉夫大使館被美軍誤炸，美國駐北京大使館則被民眾包圍，組上要作個簡報，忙得不可開交，他當時就臨時叫住我：「你趕快去找一張美國大使在二樓陽台向外看，表情很憂鬱的照片來」。
這樣少的線索，在當時遠遜於今日的作業環境，真的不是件容易的事，甚至拿到今日來作仍有一定難度，當我交差時，他用力地拍著我的肩膀：「我就知道你能辦到」。
副處長後來發想，打算把他過去在別的部門成功的經驗複製，主題就是我負責的這個非作戰的專業上，要求我限期完成一份英文的SOW文件描述需求，我告訴他，我只是個業科軍官，從來都是配角，恐怕無法勝任。
「你在我的眼中就是我們海軍軍官」他幾乎是用吼叫的「你的專業也是我們海軍整體戰力的一環，為什麼要自我設限? 為什麼要妄自菲薄?」
空白的SOW文件如雪花般灑向天花板落在地上。
一邊收拾文件一邊暗自思考，對啊，我為什麼要自己限制，你們，我們。
副處長的一句我們海軍，激勵了我，讓我找到了歸屬感，此前我找了好久好久。
我要努力做出來，為了我們海軍，也為了我出身的單位。
當初稿完成後，副處長拿著鉛筆修改，下筆越來越用力，臉色越來越沉，紙張也劃破了，筆也折斷了，整份SOW飛出辦公室。
「你不用對方的話說，誰看得懂? 怎麼溝通? 去看對方的準則！」一陣吼叫傳出辦公室。
我認真地蒐集了許多資料開始消化重新撰寫，隨著文件摔落的距離越來越近，修改的內容也越來越少，最後搞定了，他大力地拍著我的肩膀。後來果真發揮了許多功效。
後來我離開總部回到左營，副處長幾年後也退伍了，但我從不曾主動連絡過他，只有偶爾在一些研討會的場合中不期而遇。
直到某日因為公事，他突然主動連繫我，我還因此特別把他的電話號碼記錄在手機內，都過了那麼多年，接到他電話我還會緊張，在電話中他勉勵我要繼續加油，可沒想到不到一週他就走了，人生真是無常。
他的猝逝是因為在運動心電圖跑步機上突然昏迷，研判與他急躁的個性有關，無論如何，我都衷心感謝他的教導與提攜，讓我成長。
延伸閱讀:
台北時報 Navy captain leaves lasting legacy after untimely death(海軍上校留下恆久的遺產)
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/05/01/2003502138
Navy captain leaves lasting legacy after untimely death
Sun, May 01, 2011 page3 Taipei Times
By J. Michael Cole / Staff Reporter
Winston Li (李豫明), who passed away on Monday of heart complications, may have been little known to the public, but behind the scenes this implacable force of nature made several contributions to Taiwan’s security over the years — contributions that will linger on well after his premature exit.
Born in Taiwan on June 29, 1958, Li graduated from the Republic of China (ROC) Naval Academy in 1981 and received a master’s degree in acoustics from the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, in 1987.
After serving in various assignments in the ROC Navy, Li was posted to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Washington as deputy naval attache in 1997.
Winston Li poses for a picture during a Kidd-class destroyer naval ceremony in December 2005. Photo: Courtsey of Wendell Minnick
He returned to Taiwan in 2000 and, prior to his retirement from the navy, worked as a section chief at N-5 (a section now known as the Integrated Planning Section) and later served as deputy director of planning at N-5 and director of intelligence at N-2.
Since 2009, Li had served as a legislative aide to Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Herman Shuai (帥化民), who is a member of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee.
Following his death, a number of officials, reporters and academics who worked with Li over the years — including Deputy Minister of National Defense Andrew Yang (楊念祖) — paid tribute to his many contributions to the nation. Some of them shared their reminiscences with the Taipei Times.
“As a friend, Winston was as warm and generous as he was insightful and supportive — always willing to share his wisdom and good humor,” said Fu Mei (梅復興), director of the US-based Taiwan Security Analyst Center. “Winston was also a great patriot, so abundantly evidenced by his love for Taiwan and the ROC Navy.”
“He was a dedicated advocate and tireless fighter for causes beyond Taiwan, in particular US-Taiwan relations, both within and outside of defense and security circles,” he said.
“The mid-1990s were a depressing time for Taiwan in Washington, with Chinese agents of influence running amok in the [former US president Bill] Clinton White House and their success in blocking any new major arms sale during Clinton’s two terms,” said Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Washington. “But one ray of hope during those years was this phenomenal navy Captain from TECRO — this fellow Winston Li.”
Among his many accomplishments, Li played a key role in Taiwan’s acquisition in 2001 of four Kidd-class destroyers — the largest warships ever to serve in the ROC Navy and a formidable platform carrying various radar, air defense and anti-submarine missile systems. Li also made substantial contributions to a two-phased approach for a Taiwanese submarine program, which has yet to come to fruition.
As well as navy or defense initiatives, Li also made numerous contributions to broadening Taiwan’s relations with other countries, including Australia and India, through many projects, most of which remain little known to the general public, Mei said.
“Non-political in outlook and single-minded of purpose, with the objective always being getting the job done, Winston was both technically extremely competent and bureaucratically savvy,” he said. “He understood, down to amazing detail, how everything worked: from the Aegis combat system, to how to get projects through Taiwan’s political labyrinth; from intelligence on People’s Liberation Army submarine developments to US congressional legislative process.”
For Wendell Minnick, who has long covered Taiwanese defense matters for publications such as Jane’s Defence Weekly and now Defense News, Li’s impact on Taiwan’s security was undeniable. And like many others, his first encounter with Li tool place at a watering hole.
“I met Winston in a bar in the ‘Combat Zone’ with a group of US Pentagon officials in 2001,” Minnick said. “He was a character out of a Tom Clancy novel. The Pentagon guys called him by a codename, ‘Grover,’ which I never fully understood.”
“Winston was one of these rare bulldog military types that got things done that needed doing. He was only a captain in the navy, but his influence was incredible,” he said.
It was largely Li who, after Taipei secured the Kidd-class destroyers — the first two of which were commissioned in December 2005 — ensured the navy’s commitment to move forward with the platform.
“At the time, Taiwan still wanted Aegis destroyers and was hesitant to procure the Kidds, but Winston knew that the US would never release the Aegis,” Minnick said. “The Kidds were the last chance Taiwan’s navy had at getting a major warship from the US.”
However, aside from his wealth of professional knowledge and enlightened intelligence, Li also had a feisty temperament, which did not always put him in the good graces of his colleagues or superiors.
“Winston’s ability to move the navy in the right direction did not always earn him brownie points in the upper echelons of the navy brass,” Minnick said. “He would never be made an admiral and was punished more than once for being too friendly to the press and the US military.”
Over time, fraternization issues became a problem for Li, but in Minnick’s view, that was the only way he could get things done.
“Taiwan’s military is somewhat schizophrenic. They need the US military, but don’t want to be seen as too dependent on US firepower,” he said. “This left huge gaps in communication between the two sides and Winston bridged these fissures.”
Li was so effective that on more than one occasion, the US Department of State tried to have him sent back to Taipei, Fisher said. However, he understood that the defense of Taiwan’s freedom was inextricably linked to the defense of US freedom and efforts to sideline him left him undeterred.
“Winston was the anti--bureaucrat who eventually carved his own place within a military bureaucracy, a diplomatic commando that was often ahead of and more effective than the diplomats and a friend who challenged us to live up to our own values,” Fisher said.
Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the US-Taiwan Business Council, said of Li that in the absence of a permanent and professional staff handling defense and security issues for the legislature’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, he was the indispensable link between the legislature’s senior leadership on defense and security issues and those in the US working closely with Taiwan on defense matters.
“His deep knowledge of the subject matter combined with a love of country and Taiwan’s armed forces made for a capable partner,” said Hammond-Chambers, who interacted with Li in the latter phases of his career. “His boss is obviously one of the most important national security figures in Taiwan and Winston was the man behind the scenes offering counsel and carrying out orders.”
Friends and contacts of Li’s pointed to his “beyond reproach” sense of honor and incorruptibility, something that, in their view, cannot be said of everybody in the ranks.
“His maverick style and sense of honor clearly made him a character that few could be compared with,” Minnick said. “His loss will be devastating to the military and I know of no one in Taiwan’s military that compares to his maverick style and brute force of influence.”
“Taiwan will need hundreds of Winston Lis if it is to remain free,” Fisher said.
蘋果新聞: 光榮鬥士 倒在衝鋒路上
光榮鬥士
倒在衝鋒路上
梅復興
臺海安全研析中心主任
海軍退役上校李豫明月前辭世。台美友人很懷念這位熱忱忠實的戰友。
海軍官校民國70年班，美海軍研究院聲學碩士，先後擔任過各級艦職、參謀、駐美副武官、海軍計劃署組長、副處長、情報處長等職。官不大卻影響深遠。
他是位儒將，不僅涉獵海軍，更包括飛彈防禦、美台安全關係、貿易沖銷、區域合作，專業知識豐富細膩。更是幹練幕僚推動良性、漸進變革的典範。美國防部前台灣科長石明凱盛讚他為「技術嫻熟又深諳推動困難議案的官僚體系鬥士」：遇事有定見、敢於表達異議、積極進取、堅信「事在人為」。
在1996年台海危機後時空背景下，任駐美海軍副武官，經上級授權積極遊說美國會議員助理、智庫及其他人士，明確闡述我防衛需求。其努力對「台灣安全加強法案」成形有不可磨滅的貢獻。該案為小布希政府批准對台軍售提供了必要政治基礎，更為深化美台整體關係鋪路。前副助理國務卿薛瑞福日前於國防部副部長楊念祖在華府出席的研討會上特別致辭感念豫明對美台關係的貢獻。
回國後在海總計劃署，豫明促成美軍評估小組先後兩次來台確認對潛艦、反潛機等武器需求，為2001年軍售決策提供了專業依據。爾後他更是籌獲「紀德艦」重要功臣，成功整合了海軍與政府、美方、立法院、媒體間微妙競合互動，讓此重大建軍案順遂執行。美方官員對他堅持雙方關係務須公平、並在爭取公道條件與議價時所展現頑強戰鬥力，至今仍津津樂道。
AIT政軍事務主管萬國成高度推崇豫明：「總是充滿提升台灣國防與美台軍事關係的點子、活力與創意。尤甚者，Winston具有將構想轉換成可行方案的能力、企圖心與魅力。」
為台爭取「紀德艦」
海軍退役後擔任立委助理，豫明仍積極聯繫各國友人推動台美安全合作並拓展與他國關係，直至去世都在進行為國家爭取利益的游擊戰。在陰謀論氾濫的今天，他的正直、非政治性及無涉商業利益色彩，從未受過質疑。他深信，國家安全是全民的事業，應不分黨派。他和長官同袍在綠營執政時代所爭取到的「紀德艦」，如今仍騁馳在我國海疆。
豫明不是沒有爭議的。有些人或認為他摩擦係數偏高、不易協調，甚至難以駕馭領導。但推動困難業務改革需特定專業、能力和性向者，偶爾出現桀驁不馴亦瑕不掩瑜。在這方面，豫明與發明OODA循環與運動戰理論、推動美軍發展F-16輕型戰機的已故美空軍上校包以德（John Boyd）近似：徹底了解戰場、重視基本面、不怕得罪人但能結盟、聚焦不離目標、穩紮穩打、不受政治影響妥協原則。
現今官員常以「重視團隊和諧」掩飾缺乏進取心及對專業自我要求。然痛苦改革非少做少錯的模範生得成，須賴有才幹膽識、堅持者推動。
美好的仗豫明已經打過了，但仍在各領域從事幕僚職務的後進們擔負著完成他未竟功業的重任。國之鬥士，最光榮就是倒在衝鋒的路上，即便是在沒有硝煙戰場上。
上文承蒙 I-Fong Tsui (崔怡楓) 先生 同意，引用他的「臉書」系列文章，特此致謝！
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