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Overseas basing of U.S. military forces : an assessment of relative costs and strategic benefits /
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 independen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Strategic considerations: benefits of overseas posture to contingency response
- Strategic considerations: benefits of overseas posture for deterrence and assurance
- Strategic considerations: benefits of overseas posture for security cooperation
- Risks to investing in facilities overseas
- Installation conditions
- Host-nation support and U.S. payments to other countries
- Relative costs of overseas basing and rotational presence
- Illustrative postures
- Analysis of illustrative postures
- Conclusions
- Appendix A: Cost analysis appendix
- Appendix B: Detailed cost analysis results
- Appendix C: Security cooperation cost differential between forward-based and U.S.-based forces
- Appendix D: U.S. military overseas prepositioned equipment
- Appendix E: Deployment Analysis Scenario APOD and APOE Details
- Appendix F: USFJ-related costs borne by Japan
- Appendix G: Analysis of missile threat to bases for the postures
- Appendix H: Detailed estimates of host nation contributions from Japan, South Korea, and Germany
- Appendix I: Summary tables of illustrative postures.