A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times – An Instant New York Times Bestseller: A Pentagon Insider's Tumultuous Years Under President Trump

by Mark T. Esper

U.S. Marine Corps presence on Okinawa, including the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan to a less densely populated part of the island; and Japan’s efforts to complete the purchase of Mageshima Island—an uninhabited outcrop located a little more than twenty miles from the southernmost Japanese mainland of Kyushu—to support aircraft-carrier landing practice.