Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic BenefitsThis independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing how this presence contributes to assurance, deterrence, responsiveness, and security cooperation goals. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Strategic Considerations Benefits of Overseas Posture to Contingency Response | 37 |
Strategic Considerations Benefits of Overseas Posture for Deterrence and Assurance | 73 |
Strategic Considerations Benefits of Overseas Posture for Security Cooperation | 87 |
Risks to Investing in Facilities Overseas | 101 |
Installation Conditions | 121 |
HostNation Support and US Payments to Other Countries | 131 |
Relative Costs of Overseas Basing and Rotational Presence | 167 |
Illustrative Postures | 235 |
Analysis of Illustrative Postures | 253 |
Conclusions | 287 |
APPENDIXES | 305 |
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additional adversaries Air Base Air Force aircraft airlift allies assessment assets Author’s analysis brigade Camp Butler capabilities CENTCOM Chapter closure Combat Support contingency contributions CONUS cost model cost sharing Defense deploy deployment deterrence Djibouti estimates EUCOM Europe facilities Figure fixed cost Germany global GREP Guam host nation host-nation illustrative postures increase infrastructure installation support installation-support costs Iran Japan Kuwait locations Marine Corps MILCON military personnel military presence million missile Naval Navy Okinawa operational and institutional overseas bases overseas posture PACAF Pacific PACOM partners posture options potential prepositioned RAND realigned recapitalization reduce region regression analysis relocation requirements response risk rotational forces rotational presence route scenarios sealift security cooperation South Korea squadrons strategic support costs support personnel Table threat zones tion U.S. bases U.S. dollars U.S. forces U.S. military U.S. payments United USAF USMC variable cost