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USFK-tabletop drills

USFK stages tabletop tri-command exercise to enhance interoperability

SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has staged a discussion-based tri-command exercise in a bid to strengthen its regional threat deterrence capabilities and emergency readiness, according to its website Friday.

The USFK hosted the Tachyon Echo exercise, involving the three military commands led by the USFK commander -- the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC), the United Nations Command (UNC) and the 28,500-strong USFK -- according to the release.

The multilateral tabletop exercise was designed to streamline coordination of non-kinetic capabilities and non-lethal effects to improve the technical effects process, it said.

Introduced in 2024, technical effects refer to the process of assigning military components unattainable through their organic capabilities by assessing capability providers across the tri-command through a working group.

The process helps ensure "all effects are coordinated, approved and delivered through a unified, all-domain approach," it added.

"Tachyon echo is about understanding and refining non-kinetic coordination and non-lethal effects in support of the defense of the Republic of Korea," said Maj. Patrick Neky, information operations targeting and plans officer for the USFK and CFC.

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