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| U.S. to Put Forces Under S. Korean Command in Emergency |
| 2011-04-02 |
| Seoul and Washington have agreed that the chairman of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff will command support troops from the U.S. in case of a provocation from North Korea, a government source said Thursday. "The South Korean and U.S. militaries have recently agreed in principle that the chairman of the Korean JCS will command U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force personnel and equipment that support the South Korean military in case of various provocations from the North," the source said. The two countries are still hammering out the details. So far the South Korean military has responded North Korean provocations without U.S. military support. The South Korean JCS chairman currently exercises peacetime operational control over the South Korean troops but not over the U.S. Forces Korea. But a military source said since the North's shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in November last year, the South Korean JCS has persistently called for the option to mobilize USFK support, and the U.S. military agreed. It is an unprecedented measure since the U.S. military is characteristically reluctant to place troops under the command of other countries. Which U.S. troops and how many will be under the South Korean JCS chairman's command has yet to be decided. Under consideration are reconnaissance aircraft such as U-2s and E-8 Joint-Stars, artillery from the Second U.S. Infantry Division like Multiple Launch Rocket Systems and M-109 self-propelled guns, Apache attack helicopters and medevac choppers, and some U.S. Navy and Air Force personnel. The aim is to supply capacity the South Korean military lacks. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 Sounds like a major vote of confidence for "Mr. Dilly-Dally" Obama. Truthfully, US forces in SKor probably have a lot more confidence in the SKor military command than they do in the WH. "I know they're shooting at you, but he's only at the 11th hole. Can't you just not do anything for say, an hour?" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-04-02 09:07 |
| #3 Technically Joe, they're put under tactical or operational 'direction'. Title 10 has no provisions for 'command and control' to be anything but an unbroken link between the private and the Commander in Chief. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-04-02 08:55 |
| #2 BHARAT RAKSHAK > TOP ANALYST OUTLINES POSSIBILITY OF INDIA ABANDONING ITS "STRATEGIC RESTRAINT" DOCTRINE. Histor geopol "Strategic Defense" to switch to "Strategic Offense" in Regional, Global affairs, espec as per China + disputed territories, Pakistan, + International Trade Security. ARTIC > Despite on-going debate, many in Indjuh's Govt. wanna "go for it". * SAME >[Russia Diary]WIKILEAKS: "US WANTS TO USE INDIA [+ Japan] IN MISSLE SHIELD AGZ RUSSIA, CHINA". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-02 00:47 |
| #1 Methinks this is only for select or certain types of contingencies. * IIRC YONHAP > NORTH KOREA TELLS SOUTH KOREA TO "CHOOSE BETWEEN WAR, [versus]DIALOGUE"? ARTIC = DPRK says the ROK must fully understand that they SOKOR are at a [decisve?]CROSSROADS??? Also from YONHAP > JAPAN REPEATS TERRITORIAL CLAIMS OVER DOKDO IN DIPLOMATIC REPORT. * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [2010 Chinese Defense "White Paper"] PRC POLICY PAPER POINTS TO KOREANS [Korean Peninsula]+ AMERICANS AS CHINA'S BIGGEST WORRIES. Plus also Afghanistan = read, Islamist threat to China + Central Asia. ARTIC: > Asia-Pacific deemed as remaing "highly volatile" as Major Powers increase their strategic investment + involvement in Regional security affairs. > Growing US,Regional suspicions as per China's intentions, + resultant desire by Same to contain or isolate China AMAP ASAP ALAP. * TELEGRAPH.UK > RUSSIA TO DEPLOY ARCTIC BRIGADE TO DEFEND OIL + GAS RESOURCES. "Special motorised INF BRIG" of roughly 8000 troops to be based on Pechenga on the Kola Peninsula near Russ-Norwegian-Finnish border. * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > PLA SOUTH FLEET [South China Seas Fleet] TO EXPAND CONSTRUCTION OF [Hainan] BASES. * SAME > CHINA DRIVES DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA'S FAR EAST. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-02 00:38 |