USS Rafael Peralta, one of the U.S. Navy’s newest guided missile destroyers, arrived at U.S. Army Base Yokosuka, Japan, to join the U.S. Navy’s 15th Destroyer Squadron.
USS Rafael Peralta is the 65th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to enter service in July 2017. The destroyer has enhanced land, sea and air defense capabilities and is equipped with the Aegis Baseline 9 combat system.
Rafael Peralta departed from San Diego, California, to become the 12th ship based in Yokosuka, operating with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Blue Ridge, the commanding ship of the U.S. Seventh Fleet.
“The Nikkei Asian Review reported Feb. 7 that sending an additional destroyer to the forward base was no easy task. The ship’s crew of more than 300 and their families will need to be relocated to new quarters. The Seventh Fleet has said that bringing state-of-the-art ships as part of a pre-deployment is critical to security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
It is also one of the latest moves by the Biden administration to undertake a global deployment to strengthen the U.S. Indo-Pacific war effort.
In his first foreign policy address last week, Biden said, “Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will lead a global posture review of our forces to align our military footprint with our foreign policy and national security priorities.”
The Biden Administration‘s alignment of the U.S. military footprint with the administration’s priorities could mean a focus on the Indo-Pacific region, where the U.S. and China are wrestling, the report said.
USS Rafael Peralta is one of the U.S. Navy’s newest and most capable ships, said Steven DeMoss, commander of the U.S. Navy’s 15th Destroyer Squadron. He noted that under U.S. Security and mutual defense area treaties in the Indo-Pacific region, these requirements must be met with the most capable ships.
Last month, in an article co-authored by Biden’s National Security Council Indo-Pacific coordinator and Asia policy veteran Kurt Campbell and published in Foreign Affairs, he proposed that Washington decentralize U.S. forces to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.
The article’s co-author, Brookings Institution scholar Rush Doshi, was selected to serve as the China director of the National Security Council.
Communications between the U.S. and Japan continued before and after the passage of the Communist Party’s Maritime Police Law, and on January 21, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met by telephone with Japanese National Security Agency Director Shigeru Kitamura to confirm the applicability of the Diaoyu Islands to the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and to express opposition to any unilateral action that would undermine that position.
On Jan. 24, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held a telephone conversation with Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, and on Jan. 27, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a telephone conversation with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimasa Motegi, also referring to the Indo-Pacific strategy. The alliance.
Europe is also deepening its involvement in Asia. Germany wants to send frigates to Japan, while Britain has sent the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to the Indian Ocean. These moves indicate multinational concern about Beijing‘s expansionist activities in the South China Sea.
In addition, Bruce Klingner, senior fellow for Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation, recommended in a recent policy paper that the Biden administration maintain the current level of U.S. military presence in South Korea until the threat of North Korean nuclear, missile and conventional forces has been sufficiently reduced.
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