A Study on the U.S. Force Structure in North East Asia

本研究的目的和目的是解释美军在东北亚的变化变量，提供朝鲜半岛南北和平进程后的新发展情景，并寻求盟国应对美军在全球部署的选择。冷战时期美国联盟的目的是由战略考虑和经济条件形成的。在战后时代和“9·11”事件之后，维持一种共同面临威胁的“永久联盟”变得困难，而针对当前威胁形成了“临时联盟”。由于特别类型，新的联盟需要盟国之间就美国军队结构进行磋商；部队的数目，部队的规模和职能，以及指挥和命令链。这种力量结构的变化影响着军事基地的功能和盟国的国内政治。2002年3月20日，就在最后一个财政年度开始之前，美英联军开始了对伊拉克的军事行动，并在一个月后击败了萨达姆政权。到目前为止，将继续占领伊拉克的30多个国家组成了被称为“自愿联盟”的临时联盟。布什政府重新审视了冷战时期形成的韩美同盟等旧同盟关系。2003年2月，美国国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德在国会听证会上就裁减驻韩美军和驻德美军的问题发表了证词。韩美之间的协商是为了减少驻韩美军而展开的，对美日同盟产生了影响。最后一年，整理了历年收集的资料，分析了驻东北亚美军结构的变化。结果，编写了一份报告并向公众开放。该报告书利用美国太平洋司令部的解密资料，重点分析了美军和日本自卫队在角色和任务上的协调过程。该报告的结论是，“美国方面的努力已经建立了美日之间的互补力量关系。日本自卫队的作用和任务是支援美国在日本周边地区的军事行动，代替驻日美军履行防卫能力。少

Goals and objects of this study are to explain the variable of changing the U.S.Forces in North East Asia, to provide scenarios on the new developments following the peace process between North and South in Korean Peninsular, and seek options of allies responding to the U.S.forces deployment in the worldwide.The purposes of alliance of the U.S.during the Cold War period were formed by strategic considerations and economic conditions.In the Post war era and after the September 11, it became hard to maintain a sort of "permanent alliance" shared the common threats and it proceeded to form "ad hoc alliance" toward a current threat.Because of ad hoc type, new alliances require consultations among allies on the U.S.force structure ; number of the forces, size and function oft the troops, and chains of command and order.Such change of the force structure affects the function of military bases and the domestic politics in the allies.In March 20, 2002, just before starting the final fiscal yea … More r of the study project, U.S. and British coalition forces started campaign against Iraq and defeated Saddam Hussein Regime a month later.More than 30 countries to continue occupation of Iraq until now have formed the ad hoc alliance, which is called "coalition of the willing." The old type of alliance such as U.S.-Korea relations emerged with the Cold War was reviewed by Bush administration. U.S.Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified a reduction of U.S.Forces in Korea and Germany at the hearing of the U.S.Congress in February 2003.The consultation between U.S. and Korea was developed to cut the number of the U.S. Forces and has affected to the US-Japan alliance.In the final year, materials that were collected in past years were organized to analyze the change of U.S. force structure in North East Asia.As an outcome, a report was produced and opened to public.In the report, it focuses on how the coordination was made between US Forces and Japanese Self-Defense Forces in term of the roles and missions by using the declassified records of the US Pacific Command.The report concluded that a "complementary force relationship between US and Japan has been build by the U.S. side effort.The role and missions of Japanese Self-Defense Forces is to support U.S. military operation in the surrounding Japan area and to perform defense capability instead of US Forces in Japan area. Less