This is John Bachelor, conversation with Colonel Grant Nusham, United States Marine Corps retired,

who participates in a new collection of essays about coming war with the People's Republic of China's

PLA Navy, Army Army and Air Force.

The Boiling Moat is the name of the book.

Grant contributes the Japan chapter talking about what needs to be done for the Japan self-defense force

to adjust to the coming conflict if that is the case. There are many suggestions here that right now Grant is going to

speak to prior working together between the United States Navy and the Japan

self-defense force on the basis of what happened at Fukushima, the nuclear

power plant that was overwhelmed by the Tsunami in about more than 12 years ago, is Grant Nusham on lessons learned so far about the

Japan Self-Defense Force, Army Maritime Air Force,

working with the U.S. Army Air Force Navy.

More of this later.

It is.

They have a pretty good tradition going back years of operating together.

And they were the one part that worked well. The other parts of the U.S.

military and the Japanese military. It was as if they were strangers and had never met each other,

despite Americans having been in Japan for 60 years. I would note that the Japanese Navy did not

have an amphibious capability at the time of Fukushima and the tsunami.

And as a result, they got up to the affected area very quickly, but there was nothing they could do and

probably 2, 3,000 Japanese froze to death because the

JSDF could not get in and help them.

Now that's an underreported tragedy of that business.

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