The multidomain task forces are getting their turn in the spotlight in Talisman Sabre 2023.
Carlos Del Toro said Friday that the major multination military training exercise launched in Australia sends a message to China.
The United States and South Korea also launched separate bilateral drills on Monday that will continue through April 28.
U.S. and French troops who are in Romania as part of a NATO battlegroup held a military exercise to test the alliance’s eastern flank defenses.
North Korea for decades has described the United States’ combined military exercises with South Korea as rehearsals for a potential invasion.
Military partners from Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines participated in the recent rotation.
"The Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana does not look like Southeast Asia,” Flynn said. “But these eight Hawaiian Islands certainly do.”
The 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force stood up in September.
The combat training centers are changing how they challenge rotating units.
The Chinese air force is sending fighter jets and bombers to Thailand for a joint exercise with the Thai military on Sunday.
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