{"id":13390,"date":"2017-03-30T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=13390"},"modified":"2017-03-30T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:28:24","slug":"u-s-marines-send-f-35-fighters-south-korea-signal-north-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/u-s-marines-send-f-35-fighters-south-korea-signal-north-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Marines Send F-35 Fighters To South Korea &#8212; And A Signal To The North (From Forbes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon disclosed recently that Marine F-35B fighters are operating in South Korea for the first time in joint training exercises with the Republic of Korea military. The exercises are\u00a0conducted to assure the two allies can mesh seamlessly in a real military operation, and the Marine F-35s\u00a0dispatched from\u00a0Japan are engaged mainly in practicing close air support of friendly ground forces. However, the F-35 presence is\u00a0also sending a powerful\u00a0signal to North Korea&#8217;s bellicose government that Washington (and soon South Korea) will have the capability to strike any target in the North without being\u00a0detected by radar. That&#8217;s what it means to be stealthy &#8212; the enemy can&#8217;t see you, but you can see the enemy. This asymmetry makes F-35 a potent deterrent to aggression, on the Korean Peninsula and elsewhere. When a country contemplating attack is defenseless against preemption or retaliation, it has to think long and hard about whether military victory is possible.\u00a0 So sending Marine F-35s to South Korea doesn&#8217;t just help prepare for future conflicts, it helps avert them. I have written a commentary for Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lorenthompson\/2017\/03\/30\/u-s-marines-send-f-35-fighters-to-south-korea-and-a-signal-to-the-north\/#10a04976c389\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon disclosed recently that Marine F-35B fighters are operating in South Korea for the first time in joint training exercises with the Republic of Korea military. The exercises are\u00a0conducted to assure the two allies can mesh seamlessly in a real military operation, and the Marine F-35s\u00a0dispatched from\u00a0Japan are engaged mainly in practicing close air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Marines Send F-35 Fighters To South Korea - And A Signal To The North (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/u-s-marines-send-f-35-fighters-south-korea-signal-north-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U.S. Marines Send F-35 Fighters To South Korea - And A Signal To The North (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Pentagon disclosed recently that Marine F-35B fighters are operating in South Korea for the first time in joint training exercises with the Republic of Korea military. 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