In an interview from Tiffany Stars website: Why Tiger Army? What does it mean?
The words came to me one night on an overseas trip in 1995 and I knew that’s what the band was meant to be called. The name has many meanings, some of which have multiple layers, but in a way, it just kind of means what it sounds like (if that makes any sense). I’ll try and explain further– tigers in the wild are hunted and close to extinction. The rest are in cages, but they can never be entirely tamed. They’re not herd animals and spend much of their lives alone. The primary characteristic that people born under the sign of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac are believed to exhibit is courageousness; the Tiger represents the dark side of the world in Taoism (the animalistic representation of one half of the yin-yang symbol). Some of these facts are about Tigers themselves, some are about how they have been perceived by humans, but they all relate in some way to what the band is about.
