Eighth Army Transformation: Meeting The Needs Of The Nation

摘要

For the past 58 years, servicemembers from the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have stood together in the defense of freedom. The U.S.-ROK alliance remains one of the strongest in the world and will continue to guarantee the peace and stability of northeast Asia throughout the 21st century and beyond. The longstanding success of this alliance has provided an opportunity to optimize its military capabilities by implementing the most significant transformation in the history of U.S. and ROK forces in Korea.rnIn accordance with U.S. and ROK presidential and ministerial agreements, in 2012, Combined Forces Command (CFC), the U.S.-ROK combined war-fighting headquarters commanded by a U.S.