{"id":58343,"date":"2018-11-21T22:52:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T22:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/21\/pentagon-shrinks-key-us-south-korean-military-exercise\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:00:58","slug":"pentagon-shrinks-key-us-south-korean-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/11\/21\/pentagon-shrinks-key-us-south-korean-military-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon shrinks key US-South Korean military exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key military exercise between the U.S. and South Korea will go ahead next year \u2014 but in a diminished form, in order to not interfere with ongoing political negotiations with North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are not cancelling exercises,\u201d Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/16\/this-is-the-military-exercise-that-has-kim-jung-un-spooked-and-may-throw-a-wrench-in-trumps-historic-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foal Eagle<\/a> is being reorganized a bit to keep it at a level that will not be harmful to diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mattis later added that the exercises are being \u201creduced in scope,&#8221; but did not give details on actual numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foal Eagle represents one of the two biggest annual exercises between the U.S. and the ROK, with the 2018 edition involving roughly 11,500 U.S. troops and 290,000 South Korean troops. The exercise covers air, land and naval coordination, making it perhaps the closest representation to what the two nations would be doing if war broke out with North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/10\/19\/us-south-korea-suspend-more-military-exercises\/\" target=_blank>roughly a month<\/a> after the Pentagon officially suspended another joint exercise known as Vigilant Ace, an annual December air exercise involving more than 12,000 forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the Trump administration\u2019s outreach to North Korea, President Donald Trump last June pulled the plug on near-term military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea, deriding them as \u201cwar games.\u201d North Korea has long sought the cancellation of such joint exercises, which it views as provocative in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time, the pause in the joint training exercise was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/17\/looming-war-games-suspension-raises-concern-in-seoul\/\" target=\"_blank\">cast as temporary<\/a>, something of a carrot-and-stick approach for good behavior from Pyongyang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But since then, the Pentagon has cancelled or limited further exercises \u2014 sometimes with mixed messaging. Such was the case in August, when Mattis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/08\/28\/no-plan-to-cancel-korean-military-exercises-next-year-mattis-says\/\" target=_blank>told reporters<\/a> there were \u201cno plans, at this time, to suspend any more exercises\u201d on the Korean Peninsula before Trump took to Twitter and shot down the idea of restarting the exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the Hill in August, Army Gen. Robert Abrams, the then-nominee and now head of U.S. Forces Korea, said the pause in exercises has led to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/09\/25\/nominee-to-lead-us-forces-korea-says-pause-in-exercises-there-hurt-readiness\/\" target=_blank>slight degradation<\/a>\u201d of readiness, and analysts have raised concerns that cancelling exercises into 2019 would increasingly impact America\u2019s preparedness for conflict in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mattis, for his part, has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/09\/26\/mattis-only-slight-degradation-in-readiness-due-to-lack-of-south-korea-exercises\/\" target=_blank>downplayed the impact<\/a> on readiness from hitting pause on the exercises, in part because a number of smaller exercises have continued between the U.S. and ROK. 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