US, Japan Announce New Military Command Structure

Published on July 29, 2024

The United States and Japan are creating a new military command structure aimed at deterring Chinese communist aggression in the Indo-Pacific. The new structure will convert the approximately 50,000-strong U.S. Forces Japan into a joint force headquarters unit under the authority of the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. News of the new joint force was announced on July 28, following a ministerial meeting of top diplomatic and defense officials from the United States and Japan in Tokyo over the weekend. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the restructuring would help the two allies to modernize their forces and increase interoperability between militaries....

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