
Japan’s military is trying to get its air, ground and maritime forces to operate in a more joint manner to improve their ability to perform their missions, a key official said Sept. 15.“Instead of having each of them in a silo system, we are changing it into a more unified body,” Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said through an interpreter at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. “I believe that is a quite important movement.”Inada,…