As we all know, Japan and Korea are the two most important bridgeheads for United States in the Asia-Pacific region. United States the deployment of a large number of troops in Japan and South Korea, and the military discipline of the US military with the same military discipline as the army, not to mention how much chaos it has caused, it is difficult for Japan and South Korea to be independent and independent just because there are troops stationed in other countries within their own countries.
Of the two countries, Korea's independence is relatively poor, and the command of the South Korean military has long been held by the US military stationed in South Korea, and successive Korea governments have fought for decades and have not succeeded in taking it back. Korea, who are more confident, will ridicule that the US military acts as a security guard for Korea, and everyone understands what the real situation is. Now, Japan's Self-Defense Forces are also targeted by the US military, and they are also facing big trouble losing their command.
According to the global network, the United States and Japan have just held a 2+2 meeting between foreign ministers and defense ministers, and in the joint statement after the meeting, there is a content that has attracted widespread attention. The United States and Japan agreed that United States would reorganize the US forces stationed in Japan and establish a new "Integrated Forces Command." What does the integrated army mean here, some analysts believe that the establishment of this command means that in the future, Japan's Self-Defense Forces will be incorporated into the command system of the US military.
This speculation is not without reason, as early as August last year, the United States was laying out. At that time, the United States Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024, which clearly stated that the United States and Japan would promote the "unified mobilization of forces" to make the three major self-defense forces of the US military in Japan and Japan seamlessly connected.
According to public information, the total number of US troops stationed in Japan is about 55,000, which is the largest force in United States overseas troops. The U.S. military has 88 military bases in Japan, most of which are located in Okinawa, the Ryukyu Islands, and the headquarters is located at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo.
Originally, the US military stationed in Japan did not have independent command authority, and the mobilization and deployment work should be arranged by the US Indo-Pacific Command headquartered in Hawaii. At present, the United States has put forward the concept of "unified troop mobilization" in order to separate the command of the US forces stationed in Japan and move it to the Yokota military base.
In this way, the US military stationed in Japan itself will be more independent and will be able to respond faster to the surrounding situation, and of course, the Japanese army will be more deeply bound to the US military because of this. As for whether the Japanese military will accept the direct command of the Pentagon in the future, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida both said no, and Japan's Self-Defense Forces will still maintain their "independence." Whether you believe it or not, I certainly don't believe it.
Because you think, if Japan's Self-Defense Forces still "remain independent," then the US military will not move its headquarters to Japan, and how it cooperated in the past, it will continue to cooperate in the future. Now they are strengthening the "unified mobilization capability" of the two armies, and this is also to prepare for a possible war in the region in the future. To a certain extent, the fact that the United States and Japan have made such a big deal about this matter is itself a kind of "deterrent" against us.
Of course, this also reflects the fact that in recent years, with the continuous increase of China's military strength, the United States has gradually become incapable in the Asia-Pacific region. If they want to continue to contain and contain China, they must maintain the same level or even higher level of military deterrence than before. The US military alone cannot do this, and can only give an order to let Japan, South Korea, and especially Japan, which is eager to break through the "Peace Constitution," come out and bite people.
More specifically, Japan will spend more money on United States arms next, expand the size of its military, and try to provoke conflicts more frequently in sensitive areas. Some time ago, the Japanese battleship "Liangyue" broke into our territorial waters, which was a very typical temptation. In addition, under the instruction of the Pentagon, they will have more military linkages with the destabilizing factors around us.
In this regard, our attitude is clear, the Chinese army has always not believed in evil, is not afraid of ghosts, and is not afraid of pressure, but I don't know if the Japanese army will be beaten at that time, will it be considered a US military beating?