Are some nations too focused on their air forces

I have been looking at the land forces of two particular nations, Japan and Taiwan and comparing them to the levels of capability in their other services. When you look at the amount of investment Japan and Taiwan places in their Naval and Air Forces, with state of the art weapon systems and high levels of capability then look at their ground forces it would deem the ground troops are being neglected.

For example, Taiwan is equipped with La Fayette stealth frigates and three top notch fighters the M2k, F-16 and Ching-Kuo. This presents any would be invader coming from the sea with a dangerous threat to the survival of any large surface transport or aerial transport fleet.
Now look at the ground forces of Taiwan, the MBT of Taiwan is the M60 ‘Brave Tiger’, the principle IFV is the M113 fitted with turrets and certain indigenous designs of low quality….an M60 vs. the ZTZ-99??? The army still fly’s Huey’s and has a handful of Cobra’s and old M1 coastal artillery of WWII vintage.

Now look at Japan, same thing…state of the art naval vessels and top notch air power….then comes the army equipped with a few new IFV’s and the Type 90 but large numbers of the old jeep fitted with recoiless rifles and ATGM’s as well as old artillery.

I know these two great nations are fortunate in being protected by the sea, but it seems their battle planners are counting too much on any invasion being stopped before it even gets to their shores.

US intervention aside people, IF China launched an attack on either nation and IF their attack was not stopped at sea or in the air, what hope would either have of defending themselves against a well equipped PLA ground force??? :confused: