Army SOF to continue work in Pacific, Eastern Europe in 2022
By Davis Winkie
Dec 30, 10:42 AM
Even as tensions rise across the world, 2022 will find the Army’s top troops at work in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Much of their work in the Pacific is centered around preparing partner forces for potential conflict with China.
The world learned in October that small numbers of Special Forces troops have been training Taiwan’s security forces for more than a decade, in addition to their other work across the region. The Army’s 1st Special Forces Group also maintains a forward-deployed battalion on Okinawa, which is just over 400 miles away from Taiwan.
“Our allies and partners here in the [Pacific] are in this conflict space [with China] right now,” said Lt. Col. Erik Davis, the battalion’s former commander, in a podcast. “They’re having to assert their sovereignty and reassert their sovereignty as China pushes everywhere it can in the South China Sea and the East China Sea.”
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