F-15EX, F-35 headed to Japan under new DoD tactical aircraft laydown
In addition, the US announced it would restart CV-22 flights from Yokota.
Marines to formally stand up second of 3 Marine Littoral Regiments in November
The name change, which will take place Nov. 15, follows an agreement signed in January between the US and Japan under which Tokyo formally agreed to allow the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment to be stationed in Okinawa by 2025.
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Japan signs off on Marines plan for new littoral ‘stand-in’ group in Okinawa
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reaffirmed America's commitment to Japan's defense, "with the full-range of capabilities, including nuclear."
Marine Air Needs FY18 Budget To Recover From ‘Horrible Year’: Commandant
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: Marine Corps aviation is recovering from “a horrible year” of “horrific” accidents that killed 20 Marines, the Commandant said here yesterday. But, Gen. Robert Neller said, that progress is at risk unless Congress — which just passed a short-term spending bill to end the government shutdown — can actually enact […]
What War With North Korea Would Look Like: 20K NK Dead A Day
Relatively few Americans know many details about how a war between North Korean, the US, South Korean and United Nations force would look. One of them is Rob Givens, who served as the deputy assistant chief of staff for operations of U.S. Forces Korea and as special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]
Chinese Missiles Can Wipe Out US Bases In Japan: Aegis, THAAD Can Stop Em
WASHINGTON: A Chinese surprise attack tomorrow could annihilate US forces and bases in Japan, two Navy officers found. But deploying more missile defenses — Army THAAD and Navy Aegis — would protect most targets north of Okinawa, Commanders Thomas Shugart and Javier Gonzalez found in simulations. Such a stronger defense, in turn, would reduce the […]
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Hagel Offers China, North Korea Clear Guidance: Japan Is US Ally So Back Off
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The Chinese, who have been shoving their neighbors around with considerable panache over the last year, upped the ante yesterday with a claim in the official People’s Daily — not yet disavowed by the government — that the PRC may have a claim to Okinawa and others of the […]
Air Guard Cut, More Ships OKd, Satellite Exports Eased In Defense Policy Bill
[Updated Friday 12/21] CAPITOL HILL: It looks like the country’s getting a defense bill for Christmas, with provisions on everything from boosting cybersecurity to sanctioning Iran to loosening export controls on satellites. In what passes for high efficiency in Congress these days, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees completed their conference on the National […]
DoD Rebuts GAO Critique Of Okinawa Move EXCLUSIVE
On Thursday, we published a story about potential problems with the long-delayed move of Marine forces from Okinawa to Guam and elsewhere in the Pacific outlined in a draft GAO report obtained exclusively by Breaking Defense. As you’ll see below, the Pentagon had not seen it. After the article came out, a Defense Department spokesperson, […]
Okinawa Move, Key To Pacific Pivot, Will Cost More Than $10.6B: GAO
WASHINGTON: Sloppy number-crunching at the Department of Defense means that the official price tag to move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa to Guam, Hawaii, and Australia – already estimated at a whopping $10.6 billion – is probably short of the real cost, according to a draft Government Accountability Office (GAO) report obtained by Breaking Defense. [Update: […]
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Obama’s Pacific Tilt Comes Under Fire
The Obama administration’s highly touted “rebalancing” of U.S. military forces to the Asia-Pacific region attracted a barrage of flak during a briefing at an influential Washington think tank Monday. A group of former senior defense and State Department officials criticized the Pacific tilt at the Center for Strategic and International Studies saying the U.S. lacked […]
Marines Must Juggle Procurement of JLTV, ACV, F-35: Commandant Amos
PENTAGON: Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos laid out today the Corps’ tricky balancing act, simultaneously cutting personnel, spreading out weapons programs, and shifting from counterinsurgency on land in Afghanistan to seaborne crisis response in the Pacific. The big Marine Corps news of the last 24 hours was the award of development contracts to three firms, […]
Japanese Defense Minister To Fly In V-22
Holy #V-22!! The Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto will fly in an Osprey at 4:30 with press filming. Take THAT Okinawa protesters! colinclarkaol
V-22s Cleared For Okinawa And Heads To UK Air Shows
The Pentagon and the Japanese government announced early Friday that a dozen Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys are being shipped to Japan for deployment on Okinawa but the planes won’t fly until investigations into two recent crashes of the tiltrotor troop transport are complete. The announcement – issued the same day four MV-22s were scheduled to […]