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The Armed Forces Day celebration took place on Friday, May 3, 2024. This is the 75th anniversary of Chattanooga's Armed Forces Day. 

Two factors have driven the debate over the planned U.S. military realignment in Japan: campaign pledges made by the Democratic Party of Japan and complaints from Okinawans about the presence of the U.S. military. These factors have had a particularly strong impact on efforts to preserve the Marine Corps Air Station on Okinawa. However, other critical factors—national interests, regional threats, and the U.S.–Japan alliance’s military requirements—are absent from the discussion over the station’s scheduled relocation from Futenma to a more remote locale. The Obama Administration shou...

The new threat from North Korea's Musudan missile underscores the need for the U.S. to continue developing missile defense systems.

February 15, 2021 09:40 A former chief of the U.S. Forces Korea has warned of a "great risk" of the South Korean people "falling under the North Korean regime" if Seoul makes "a premature decision" to take over control of wartime troop operation on the peninsula. Burwell Bell, who was USFK commander from 2006 to 2008, made the remarks in a statement to Voice of America on Feb. 10. Burwell Bell The transfer of operational control to South Korea "in a nuclear environment would be an historic mistake by the proud and heroic people of [South] Korea," he said. "No transfer of OPCON of wartime fo...