[PDF] Us Force Posture Strategy In The Asia Pacific Region eBook

Author : David Berteau
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Military bases, American
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This report was commissioned by the United States Defense Department to provide an independent assessment of U.S. force posture in Asia. It examines multiple options for positioning US military forces in the Asia Pacific region, including the possibility of a naval base in Perth. President Barack Obama signed the Fiscal Year 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, or Public Law 112-81) in December 2012, setting in motion the requirement under Section 346 of the NDAA to commission a report on force posture and deployment plans of the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM). One week later, on January 5, 2012, the president released at the Department of Defense (DoD) a new Strategic Guidance document that directed a rebalancing toward the Asia Pacific region of military forces and national security efforts across the government. This guidance, and the Fiscal Year 2013 defense budget, marks only the beginning of force posture rebalancing. In March, DoD tasked the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to undertake that study, with a report due 180 days after enactment, or by the end of June, 2012. At one level, PACOM force posture is tied to current deployments and activities in the region and to announced plans to modify such deployments. Chief among these are plans for replacing Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma and funding for additional military construction needed to transfer Marines from Okinawa to Guam. These plans are at the center of a logjam between DoD, which would like to implement them, and the Congress, which is reluctant to authorize funding absent better details about cost and long-term master plans. This report tackles those issues and proposes a way to break that logjam. However, the stakes for the United States in the Asia Pacific region go well beyond the scope of military construction projects. This report focuses on the larger question of how to align U.S. force posture to overall U.S. national interests in the Asia Pacific region.

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442259175

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In 2015, Congress tasked the Department of Defense to commission an independent assessment of U.S. military strategy and force posture in the Asia-Pacific, as well as that of U.S. allies and partners, over the next decade. This CSIS study fulfills that congressional requirement. The authors assess U.S. progress to date and recommend initiatives necessary to protect U.S. interests in the Pacific Command area of responsibility through 2025. Four lines of effort are highlighted: (1) Washington needs to continue aligning Asia strategy within the U.S. government and with allies and partners; (2) U.S. leaders should accelerate efforts to strengthen ally and partner capability, capacity, resilience, and interoperability; (3) the United States should sustain and expand U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region; and (4) the United States should accelerate development of innovative capabilities and concepts for U.S. forces.

Author : William T Tow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317586115

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Barack Obama’s "rebalancing" or "pivot" strategy, intended to demonstrate continued US commitment to the Asia-Pacific region in a variety of military, economic, and diplomatic contexts, was launched with much fanfare in 2011. Implicit in the new strategy is both a focus on China – engagement with, and containment of – and a heavy reliance by the United States on its existing friends and allies in the region in order to implement its strategy. This book explores the impact of the new strategy on America’s regional friends and allies. It shows how these governments are working with Washington to advance and protect their distinct national interests, while at the same time avoiding any direct confrontation with China. It also addresses the reasons why many of these regional actors harbour concerns about the ability of the US to sustain the pivot strategy in the long run. Overall, the book illustrates the deep complexities of the United States’ exercise of power and influence in the region.

Author : Jonathan D. Pollack
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781884733437

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Contains a collection of papers produced by participants (U.S. and regional scholars and analysts) at a conference, "Asia Eyes America," held at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, in May 2006. What are the implications of Asia's longer-term transformation for U.S. interests? How might change reconfigure American security requirements in the next decade and beyond? On what basis does United States reaffirm yet redefine its enduring commitment to regional order? This volume is a collaborative effort involving prominent specialists on both sides of the Pacific. The book focuses on underlying attitudes toward American power and policy, especially as viewed by strategic analysts within the region. Various contributors describe contradictory attitudes toward American power. Most states hope to deepen ties with the United States, while avoiding comprehensive envelopment in U.S. strategy. There is a tension between the preference for continued American regional involvement, while seeking to limit possibilities of highly intrusive U.S. policy interventions. Both considerations will continue to shape regional attitudes toward American power, especially U.S. military power--Publisher's description.

Author : Jeremy S. Putman
Publisher :
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2015
Category : China
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This study addresses an important question: What is the optimal force posture for the US Air Force in the Asia-Pacific? Although current conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine dominate American headlines, the Asia-Pacific deserves greater attention for a number of reasons. The geographic boundaries of US Pacific Command include 52 percent of the earth's surface and over half the world's population. The United States also conducts more international trade with Asia than any other region. Furthermore, the United States has formal security agreements with a number of countries in the area. In recognition of the growing importance of the region, the US Department of Defense has announced an effort to rebalance its forces to the Asia-Pacific. Even though water dominates the region, land-based airpower is an essential part of the US security solution for the Pacific for a number of reasons. First, land-based airpower delivers capabilities that current US carrier-based aviation either cannot provide or cannot provide in sufficient quantity. Second, growing regional missile threats pose great risk for aircraft carriers. Third, in some scenarios, Pacific Command may simply need more airpower than the current US Navy fleet can provide. The study reasons from the general to the specific. It begins by examining the strategic context in the Asia-Pacific. The rise of China receives specific attention. The author also identifies and describes the regions four most significant potential conflict areas: Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. The study then moves to the realm of international relations, where it examines three different visions of grand strategy for the Asia-Pacific. The next step incorporates American military strategy to identify defense goals for US forces in the region. The author then presents the Posture Analysis Construct, a mathematical framework that gives structure and rigor to the art of strategy. The final chapter identifies five posture alternatives and examines them using the Posture Analysis Construct. This analysis concludes that Pacific Air Forces should adopt a blended posture that augments its existing main operating bases in Northeast Asia with at least an intermittent presence at austere airfields in Southeast Asia. New austere fields in that area will facilitate presence and communicate US resolve in an area that is currently underserved. Austere fields, coupled with dispersion techniques, offer a resilient, cost-effective way to reintroduce American presence into Southeast Asia without diminishing the strong relationships in Northeast Asia. Basing arrangements should never be taken for granted. Strategy has many subsets, but posture planning may be the most important. Warfighting schemes, contingency planning, and technology innovations receive more attention; but posture planning is vital because it directly contributes to the protection of interests and the prevention of war. Force presentation is the most tangible form of strategic communication. Actions speak louder than words. Presence reassures allies and communicates resolve to adversaries. To capitalize on these underlying verities, PACAF should begin to expand its presence in Southeast Asia.

Author : U S Military
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2019-06-02
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ISBN : 9781071406878

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This important report was issued by the Department of Defense in June 2019. The Indo-Pacific is the Department of Defense's priority theater. The United States is a Pacific nation; we are linked to our Indo-Pacific neighbors through unbreakable bonds of shared history, culture, commerce, and values. We have an enduring commitment to uphold a free and open Indo-Pacific in which all nations, large and small, are secure in their sovereignty and able to pursue economic growth consistent with accepted international rules, norms, and principles of fair competition. The continuity of our shared strategic vision is uninterrupted despite an increasingly complex security environment. Inter-state strategic competition, defined by geopolitical rivalry between free and repressive world order visions, is the primary concern for U.S. national security. In particular, the People's Republic of China, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, seeks to reorder the region to its advantage by leveraging military modernization, influence operations, and predatory economics to coerce other nations. In contrast, the Department of Defense supports choices that promote long-term peace and prosperity for all in the Indo-Pacific. We will not accept policies or actions that threaten or undermine the rules-based international order - an order that benefits all nations. We are committed to defending and enhancing these shared values.China's economic, political, and military rise is one of the defining elements of the 21st century. Today, the Indo-Pacific increasingly is confronted with a more confident and assertive China that is willing to accept friction in the pursuit of a more expansive set of political, economic, and security interests. Perhaps no country has benefited more from the free and open regional and international system than China, which has witnessed the rise of hundreds of millions from poverty to growing prosperity and security. Yet while the Chinese people aspire to free markets, justice, and the rule of law, the People's Republic of China (PRC), under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), undermines the international system from within by exploiting its benefits while simultaneously eroding the values and principles of the rules-based order.This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. 1. Introduction * 1.1. America's Historic Ties to the Indo-Pacific * 1.2. Vision and Principles for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific * 2. Indo-Pacific Strategic Landscape: Trends and Challenges * 2.1. The People's Republic of China as a Revisionist Power * 2.2. Russia as a Revitalized Malign Actor * 2.3. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a Rogue State * 2.4. Prevalence of Transnational Challenges * 3. U.S. National Interests and Defense Strategy * 3.1. U.S. National Interests * 3.2. U.S. National Defense Strategy * 4. Sustaining U.S. Influence to Achieve Regional Objectives * 4.1. Line of Effort 1: Preparedness * 4.2. Line of Effort 2: Partnerships * 4.3. Line of Effort 3: Promoting a Networked Region * Conclusion

Author : James A. Winnefeld
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Asia
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This report considers how the United States should reposture its forces, adjust its policies, and change its military operations in the Asia-Pacific region, all in the context of reduced resources and increased burden-sharing by allies and security partners. It assesses six alternative U.S. regional force postures that might develop over the next 15 years. Each posture is examined from three perspectives: (1) regional responses to the posture, (2) performance in hypothetical contingencies if deterrence fails; and (3) comparative cost. The analysis indicates that the base force posture reflected in the current Future Year Defense Plan is probably the best compromise now for sufficient reassurance of U.S. security partners, deterrence of possible opponents, adequate performance in representative contingencies, and acceptable cost. If threats and uncertainties decline markedly, somewhat lower postures would be acceptable. Risks start to increase rapidly at postures below the base force level. The authors recommend a variety of threat reduction, posture enhancement, and hedging measures.