The United States is pursuing a plan to deploy elements of its Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF), a next-generation maneuver unit created to break through enemy anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategies, to the Korean Peninsula, sources said on the 2nd.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month, citing Army officials, that the U.S. Army is moving an MDTF from Europe to South Korea under acting Army Chief of Staff Christopher LaNeve.
The report indicated that Washington is relocating elements of the 2nd MDTF, which is headquartered in Germany and covers the European theater, to South Korea. The size and specific nature of the forces being moved were not disclosed.
The MDTF is a unit designed to carry out multi-domain operations, the U.S. Army's operational concept spanning land, sea, air, space, and cyber and electronic warfare.
The U.S. created its first MDTF under the Army's I Corps in Washington state, and has stationed the 2nd MDTF in Germany and the 3rd MDTF in Hawaii. Xavier Brunson, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, has publicly stated on several occasions in recent months that MDTF assets should be deployed to South Korea.
Asked whether talks were under way on deploying MDTF forces to the peninsula, South Korea's Ministry of National Defense said only that it was "not appropriate to comment on or assess each report that does not represent the official position of the U.S. government."
