The stated goal of the exercise was to promote the three nations’ shared commitment to “security and freedom” on the Korean Peninsula and throughout the Indo-Pacific region.
US Air Force Colonel Craig Rumble, the lead planner for the exercise, stated that “Freedom Edge” is a continuing effort among the three nations to make information sharing and interoperability “routine, repeatable, and real”. He added that the exercise, “turns policy into procedures, and procedures into muscle memory”.