“Our mission is to maintain peace and stability, and to deter aggression
on the Korean peninsula, and if that should fail we are prepared to
fight and win, Our training events are transparent,
defense-oriented and designed to increase readiness to defend SoKo.”
It's Foal Eagle 2013!!
The alliance’s largest military exercise of the year, which runs from
March 1 to April 30, and involves as many as 200,000 South Korean troops
and approximately 11,000 U.S. forces, most of whom will travel to the
peninsula specifically for the exercise.
The primary purpose of Foal Eagle is to demonstrate ROK-US military
resolve to deter war on the Korean peninsula and to improve the combined
and joint operational posture of those forces. Foal Eagle is a purely
defensive exercise which tests the capability of the Republic of Korea
(ROK) to defend itself, assisted by U.S. armed forces, and it is also
primarily a rear area security and stability operations, onward movement
of critical assets to the forward area, special operations, ground
maneuver, amphibious operations, combat air operations, maritime action
group operations and counter special operations forces exercises
(CSOFEX).
Foal Eagle is the first in the annual series of Warfighter,
Commanders in Chief, command post exercises (CPX) in Korea. This
exercise simulates the increase in tensions on the peninsula prior to an
opening of hostilities. It targets the coordination between the United
States, Republic of Korea forces and civilian authorities for
noncombatant evacuation.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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