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

这项研究的目的和对象是解释美国在东北亚地区力量变化的变量，为朝鲜半岛南北和平进程的新发展提供情景，并寻求盟国对美军在世界范围内的部署做出回应。冷战时期美国结盟的目的是由战略考虑和经济条件形成的。在战后和9·11事件后，维持一种共享共同威胁的“永久联盟”变得困难，并朝着当前的威胁继续形成“临时联盟”。由于临时性，新的联盟需要盟国就美军的力量结构进行磋商；军队的数量、规模和职能，以及指挥和命令的链条。这种部队结构的变化影响到军事基地的功能和盟国的国内政治。2002年3月20日，就在开始最后一次财政年度…之前在更多的研究项目中，美英联军开始了对伊拉克的行动，并在一个月后击败了萨达姆·侯赛因政权。到目前为止，30多个继续占领伊拉克的国家组成了这个临时联盟，被称为“意愿联盟”。布什政府对冷战后出现的美韩关系等旧式联盟进行了重新审视。2003年2月，美国国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德在美国国会听证会上证实了美国削减在韩国和德国的驻军。美韩之间的磋商是为了削减美军数量，并对美日同盟产生了影响。在最后一年，组织了过去几年收集的材料，分析了美国在东北亚的军事结构变化。作为结果，制作了一份报告并向公众开放。在报告中，报告重点介绍了美军和日本自卫队是如何利用美国太平洋司令部的解密记录在角色和任务方面进行协调的。报告的结论是，“美日之间的力量互补关系是由美方的努力建立起来的。日本自卫队的角色和任务是支持美国在日本周边地区的军事行动，并代替美军在日本地区执行防卫能力。较少

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