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来源类型 | Report |
规范类型 | 报告 |
来源ID | RR-201-OSD |
Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits | |
Michael J. Lostumbo; Michael J. McNerney; Eric Peltz; Derek Eaton; David R. Frelinger; Victoria A. Greenfield; John Halliday; Patrick Mills; Bruce R. Nardulli; Stacie L. Pettyjohn; et al. | |
发表日期 | 2013-04-29 |
出版年 | 2013 |
语种 | 英语 |
结论 | Overseas presence contributes to contingency responsiveness, deterrence, assurance, and security cooperation.In many cases — but not all — overseas presence enhances contingency responsiveness.
Overseas forces targeted to specific threats provide deterrence and regional assurance.
Overseas presence enhances security cooperation, which builds U.S. capabilities to work with partners and helps develop their capabilities.
Basing has fixed and variable cost elements, with variable costs per person (and overall costs) higher overseas, even when taking host-nation support into account.
The costs of rotational presence can be more or less than overseas stationing, depending on rotation frequencies, lengths, unit types, and locations.Some posture changes could be advisable, depending on judgments about national security priorities and the relationships between posture and strategic benefits.
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摘要 | Section 347 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act called on the Department of Defense to commission an independent assessment of the overseas basing presence of U.S. military forces. As the recipient of that commission, RAND's National Defense Research Institute conducted an independent assessment of the advisability of changes in the overseas basing presence of U.S. forces based on an evaluation of strategic benefits, risks, and costs. The report characterizes how overseas presence contributes to assurance of allies, deterrence, contingency responsiveness, and security cooperation, along with the risks involved with investing in facilities overseas. It breaks new ground in the understanding of the costs associated with overseas presence, including how permanent and rotational presence costs compare, and provides cost models for policymakers to weigh alternative posture options. To support this understanding of costs the report also lays out the conditions of U.S. installations and levels of host nation support. ,The report concludes that there are certain minimum requirements necessary to carry out the current national security strategy, but it is prudent, based upon the net value produced, to maintain an overseas posture that goes beyond these minimums. Additionally, it combines benefit, cost, and risk considerations to distill a number of strategic judgments that have implications for the advisability of considering identified posture changes. |
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主题 | Defense Infrastructure ; Military Facilities ; Military Logistics ; Military Strategy ; National Defense Authorization Act |
URL | https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR201.html |
来源智库 | RAND Corporation (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/522268 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael J. Lostumbo,Michael J. McNerney,Eric Peltz,et al. Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits. 2013. |
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