Big changes planned for Pacific military forces
The
Advertiser
reports
that: "Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is planning a sweeping revision of
the command apparatus through which American military forces are controlled in
Asia to make them more responsive to contingencies from the Korean Peninsula to
Australia. Military officers who spoke on condition of anonymity said the
revision would take place primarily in South Korea and Japan but would affect
deployments throughout the Pacific Command's area of responsibility that runs
from the West Coast across the Pacific and Indian oceans to East Africa. From
its headquarters overlooking Pearl Harbor, Pacific Command controls 300,000
military people and is the largest combatant command of the U.S. armed
forces."
Posted: Sun - February 1, 2004 at 09:57 AM