The present volume, Reposturing the Force: U.S. Overseas Presence
in the Twenty-first Century, is the twenty-sixth in the Newport
Papers monograph series, published since 1991 by the Naval War
College Press. Its primary aim is to provide a snapshot of a
process-the ongoing reconfiguration of America's foreign military
"footprint" abroad-that is likely to prove of the most fundamental
importance for the long-term security of the United States, yet has
so far received little if any systematic attention from national
security specialists and still less from the wider public. As such,
it serves well the broad mission of the Newport Papers series-to
provide rigorous and authoritative analysis, of a sort not readily
available in the world of academic or commercial publishing, of
issues of strategic salience to the U.S. Navy and the national
security community generally. Reposturing the Force is, however,
unusual in the manner in which it combines rigor and
authoritativeness, for several of its authors are or recently were
senior U.S. government officials. Ryan Henry and Lincoln
Bloomfield, Jr., have been central figures in the Global Defense
Posture Review (initiated by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
in 2002 as the key mechanism for forcing transformation of the U.S.
overseas presence) while serving as, respectively, Principal Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Assistant Secretary of
State for Political-Military Affairs. As such, they are uniquely
positioned to comment on the unfolding of this vast, complex, and
extremely sensitive undertaking, many of the details of which are
still in flux or are (and likely will remain) classified. For
additional perspective on the subject, however, we have felt it
important to include also papers by several independent scholars
and policy analysts. Robert Harkavy's opening essay helps to place
current developments in the American global posture in a larger
historical and strategic framework. Andrew Erickson and Justin
Mikolay provide an in-depth analysis of the role of Guam in recent
thinking and decisions about the posture of the U.S. military in
the western Pacific. Finally, Robert Work examines the emerging
concept of "sea basing" in Navy and Marine Corps doctrine and force
planning, an integral yet so far largely neglected dimension of the
American military presence abroad.
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