Japan, U.S. hold joint military exercise with eye on China, N Korea

Well, China will make a play for Taiwan, so the most Japan and the US can do now is to make this so costly that they put it off for another 5 years.

An attack on North Korea is an attack on China & Russia.

Why is it impossible to find how much these “exercises” cost? With jet fuel $40000+ an hour, missile $60000-140000 each, warship running costs, logistics and troop transmission, maintanence,

as taxpayers, we have a right to know.

just another day for US to escalate hostilities on Asian affairs.

Japan, U.S. hold joint military exercise with eye on China, N Korea

The title seems purposely inflammatory. These drills are held every two years regardless of anything China, NK or anyone else may be doing. They are held around Japan in a number of locations, not concentrating in just one or two places.

The US, Japan and in fact most nations have a number of drills and exercises yearly and biennially that generally include different units for each drill to ensure all forces are a part of some exercise every year. Some may be involved in more than just one.

This helps coordination of units and services and is quite normal, covering all aspects that any military may be involved in from defense, attack, search and rescue, surveying and testing new equipment and tactics.

So it may be news that this is being held, but it is about maintaining the readiness of personnel to carry out their duties under different conditions, not about China or NK.

"RodneyToday  08:15 am JST

Why is it impossible to find how much these “exercises” cost? With jet fuel $40000+ an hour, missile $60000-140000 each, warship running costs, logistics and troop transmission, maintanence,

as taxpayers, we have a right to know."

Does the cost matter when they are doing whatever it takes to stop you from ending up in a box?

"Japan, U.S. hold joint military exercise with eye on China, N Korea"

The ONLY purpose of these exercises and the recent exercises before these and ALL of these sword rattling, chest beating demonstrations of Human psychopathy and threat to others is to try to intimidate those who refuse obedience to the Masters of the U.S. and its willing vassals. If China were to hold similar 'exercises' with, say, Cuba in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, to twit the U.S.'s clear assumption of dominance in the Atlantic and Caribbean, the howls from the south side of the Human intelligence curve in the West would be deafening. It's sad that those completely TRAPPED in the propaganda fantasy world of 'Us' and 'Them' are so trapped in that delusion because they make it possible for the psychopaths to do such outrageous behaviors as these direct threats against sovereign countries who simply do not agree to being pushed around by American Greed and bullying.

"AlongfortherideToday 09:01 am JST

"RodneyToday  08:15 am JST

Why is it impossible to find how much these “exercises” cost? With jet fuel $40000+ an hour, missile $60000-140000 each, warship running costs, logistics and troop transmission, maintanence,

as taxpayers, we have a right to know."

Does the cost matter when they are doing whatever it takes to stop you from ending up in a box?"

Ending up in a box or urn is inevitable. Ending up as radioactive dust is NOT inevitable but made much more highly probable by these constant hostile demonstrations of Human idiocy.

This can be summarized in one line:

Let the customer test drive the car, to wet their appetite.

Thanks US for bring more and more chaos and crisis in the region for your only greedy, selfish and geopolitical benefit..

Those countries would never attack a neighbor, would they? Surely, NK attacking SK, China attacking Tibet, and Russia attacking Ukraine were all innocent mistakes, no? Nothing to worry about......

If China were to hold similar 'exercises' with, say, Cuba in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, to twit the U.S.'s clear assumption of dominance in the Atlantic and Caribbean, the howls from the south side of the Human intelligence curve in the West would be deafening.

China and Russia held joint naval exercises off the coast of Alaska about a month ago. The US had a Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter tag along and Coast Guard C-130s took turns flying nearby to keep an eye on the exercise but the US otherwise made no mention of it. The only place I saw any mention was in the maritime press because the Chinese and Russians declared an exclusion zone for the duration of the exercise telling commercial shipping to stay out of a certain area. Earlier this summer the Russian Navy conducted an exercise right off the coast of Hawaii simulating attacks on a carrier strike group. Again, nothing said by the US. Both exercises were conducted in international waters so there was nothing to complain about. It was a nice opportunity to collect some good intel on their tactics and equipment.

Why is it impossible to find how much these “exercises” cost? With jet fuel $40000+ an hour, missile $60000-140000 each, warship running costs, logistics and troop transmission, maintanence,

as taxpayers, we have a right to know."

The ships are going to be underway somewhere and the aircraft are going to be flown regardless of whether or not they in an exercise with Japan. It they don't train with Japanese forces they will train among themselves. When you are underway in the US Navy you are training every single day anyway, and the aircraft fly every day. That is how we maintain our high proficiency. There is precious little difference in cost.

The title seems purposely inflammatory. These drills are held every two years regardless of anything China, NK or anyone else may be doing. They are held around Japan in a number of locations, not concentrating in just one or two places.

Unlike past years recent exercises with Japan are practicing tactics specific to fending off a Chinese attack on the Senkaku Islands or an attack on Taiwan. Example, this series of exercises includes amphibious landings. Until China started making noises about the Senkaku Islands being Chinese territory Japan never had any kind of amphibious capability and never thought they needed one. Now they worry about China attempting landings on several of their southernmost islands and maybe even making a move on Okinawa so they train with the US on tactics to defeat such attacks by China.