{"id":33767,"date":"2024-10-22T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33767"},"modified":"2024-10-31T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T02:30:41","slug":"japan-u-s-sword-25-large-scale-military-exercise-begins-with-45000-soldiers-participating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33767","title":{"rendered":"Japan-U.S. &#8220;Sword-25&#8221; large-scale military exercise begins, with 45,000 soldiers participating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tokyo, October 23 (Sputnik) &#8211; The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that Japan has begun a 10-day large-scale joint military exercise called Keen Sword with the United States, with 45,000 soldiers from both sides participating.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The current exercises based on the strong Japan-U.S. alliance should contribute to improving Japan-U.S. combat readiness and operational compatibility,&#8221; a Defense Ministry source said. &#8220;In order to be able to respond to any situation, they should strengthen deterrence and response capabilities, ensure our country&#8217;s defense, and contribute to ensuring peace and regional security.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Japan&#8217;s ground, maritime and air&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240927\/1061786252.html\">self-defense forces<\/a>&nbsp;and their cybersecurity units will take part in the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The exercise will practice staff activities, joint anti-ship operations, amphibious landing operations, air and anti-missile defense, island defense, ensuring maritime transportation safety, protection of important facilities, command and communication systems, and deepening inter-regional operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Self-Defense Force and U.S. military bases as well as civilian airports and ports will be used in the exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20241023\/1062228729.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, October 23 (Sputnik) &#8211; The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that Japan has begun a 10-day large-scale joint military exercise called Keen Sword with the United States, with 45,000 soldiers from both sides participating. &#8220;The current exercises based on the strong Japan-U.S. alliance should contribute to improving Japan-U.S. combat readiness and operational compatibility,&#8221; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[10444,5334,30103],"class_list":["post-33767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-america-2","tag-japan","tag-military-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33769,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33767\/revisions\/33769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}