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現在米軍は、アフガンに18000、イラクに138000の兵員を駐留させていて、イ
ラクの選挙（占拠）に向けてあと12000名を増派する予定。
このほどこの２国への来年のローテーションが発表されたが、陸軍は細かいが、
海兵隊については部隊名が明らかでない。
まあ実際これだけの米兵を展開していると、他の地域、例えば朝鮮半島で大き
な戦いをかまえるということはチョット無理。そういう事情をわきまえないで、
安倍とかがはしゃいで「経済制裁だ。戦争だ」と喚いていたので、アーミテッジ
様にたしなめられた。
By Patrick Dickson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, December 15, 2004
WASHINGTON The Pentagon has decided on its troop rotation plans for
mid-2005, which will keep force levels at the same strength for
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are roughly 138,000 troops in Iraq and 18,000 in Afghanistan;
another 12,000 are being sent to Iraq to provide security for elections.
Defense Department spokesman Lawrence Di Rita, speaking at a Tuesday
Pentagon briefing, said the moves were part of the regular rotations,
and would not significantly change the look of the force in either Iraq
or Afghanistan.
The deployment would keep force levels at three brigades and a division
headquarters element in Afghanistan, and 17 brigades and three division
headquarters elements in Iraq.
For Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, the troops set to rotate
in include:
The 3rd and 4th Brigades and headquarters elements, 10th Mountain
Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
The 53rd Infantry Brigade and headquarters elements, Florida National
Guard
For Operation Iraqi Freedom, the following units have been tapped to
rotate in:
4th Infantry Division ? division headquarters and four brigades
101st Airborne Division, Air Assault, headquarters elements and four
brigades, Fort Campbell, Ky.
48th Infantry Brigade (Separate), Georgia National Guard
172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
The Pentagon alerted all units Friday, according to a senior Pentagon
official.
Smaller units also will be deployed, but planners had not gotten to
that level of detail as of Tuesday, according to the official.
Army Brig. Gen. David Rodriguez, deputy regional operations director
for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it would be two to
three months before the combat support elements would be identified.
Asked whether the continued insurgency was the motivation behind the
announcement, Di Rita would only say the Defense Department would
continue to evaluate the situation to determine whether more or fewer
troops will be needed in the years to come.
Speaking in Baghdad on Tuesday, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said U.S. troop numbers will
rise from 138,000 to 150,000 before next month’s elections, which many
Iraqis fear could be targeted by militants opposed to the occupation
and bent on derailing the political process.
“Our troop levels will be at 150,000 for the elections and a little
bit after,” Myers said, adding that events would determine whether
those numbers will be scaled down after the ballot.
The previous high for the U.S. force in Iraq was 148,000 on May 1, 2003,
when President Bush declared that major combat operations were over,
and most soldiers thought the war had been won. The initial invasion
force included thousands of sailors on ships in the Persian Gulf and
other waters, plus tens of thousands of troops in Kuwait and other
surrounding countries.
The units identified for Iraq represent some 70,000 soldiers, an Army
official confirmed Tuesday.
That leaves the number of units yet to be be announced for Iraq is
about “four brigade equivalents,” or roughly 20,000 soldiers, short
of the approximately 100,000 troops which the Army is now contributing
to Iraq, an Army official said (the precise numbers fluctuate as troops
come and go).
Meanwhile, there are now 32,000 Marines deployed to Iraq.
The Marines definitely are planning to participate in the Iraq rotation,
as well, according to Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Dan McSweeney.
“We’ll be participating, but the units have not yet been identified,”
McSweeney said in a Tuesday telephone interview.
Stripes reporter Lisa Burgess and the Associated Press contributed to
this report.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=26043
http://www.estripes.com/section.asp?section=104
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