![]() Japanese Understanding of the Strategic Environment One of such challenges is to fully integrate both militaries in order to synchronize their situational awareness and amplify the lethal and non-lethal effects they bring to bear. militaries to tackle together to respond to contingencies. This re-discovered significance of Japanese ground forces presents a set of challenges for the Japanese and U.S. alliance but is often overlooked in favor of the country’s air and maritime forces. The role of Japan’s ground forces is critical for the future of the country and the Japan-U.S. While maritime and air forces are susceptible to the threat of long-range strikes, ground forces can keep operating in areas within range of adversaries longer-range missiles and take advantage of land-based infrastructure to protect the Japanese littoral and, potentially, to work with the United States. military need to address, a new Ground Self-Defense Force could play a key role in enabling not only Japan’s own joint operations but also bilateral operations with the U.S. In light of the operational problems the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. Scrutinizing the two documents reveals that the Japan Self-Defense Forces’ land component, the Ground Self-Defense Force, is the service which will undergo the most significant transformation in the coming decade compared to the rest of the Japanese military. ![]() Two of those documents - Japan’s National Defense Strategy and the Defense Buildup Program - set targets for future capabilities and posture of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to address the emerging security outlook. These documents are Japan’s response to the deteriorating regional and global security situations. It is no wonder that Japan’s three strategic documents, released at the end of 2022, are marked by an uncharacteristically anxious tone. House Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and North Korea set a record for conducting more than 70 rounds of missile tests in just one year. Vladimir Lenin reputedly said, “There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen.” The year of 2022 was exactly this kind of period, when years of developments were compressed: Lenin’s descendants ironically launched an unprovoked and unlawful war against Ukraine the Taiwan Strait witnessed a once-in-a-decade crisis after U.S.
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