| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國際政治研究所 === 94 === The Asia-Pacific region rapid economic development has become important areas of U.S. national interests in the 21st century. At the regional situation has not significantly changed, the U.S. Bush administration (George W. Bush) massive changes overseas military deployment since the end of World War II, significantly enhancing the strength of the Asia-Pacific region. This will form the regional security implications, testing their motivation, the purpose why it has become the main motive for this study. The study used realistic approach, using historical analysis and documentation analysis ways to examine U.S. official documents and relevant research data back from the U.S. Bush administration took office in 2001 - 2006 as of the Asia-Pacific military strategy processes, and to explore differences during the cold war military deployment in Asia-Pacific, and regional security posed by affected.
Affecting the Bush administration’s change overseas military deployment in Asia-Pacific distinguished international and internal environment factors, the main external international environment factors for consideration and adjustment South Korea, Japan alliance, through simultaneous upgraded Japan''s military capacity to meet the increase of U.S. military forces, the purposes contained rise of China; internal factors are neo-conservatives ideology with the national military anti-terrorism task priority strategic objectives for the achievement of pre-emptive military operations. Focusing on the principle of adjusting military deployment flexibility, mobility, lethal, a central objective was to shift the basis of defense planning from a "threat-based" model that has dominated thinking in the past to a "capabilities-based" model for the future, with a minimum of resources to reach the greatest combat capability.
The study found that the Bush administration through its global military deployment plan substantially increased military deployment in the Asia-Pacific region, strengthened the U.S.-Japan security alliance, increased USFK application flexibility, strengthened Guam naval air combat capability, and the consolidation of key areas access in wartime, the aim was to deter challenges to U.S. hegemony and the possibility of military conflict to prepare for. The impact on regional security enhanced hedge strategies to China, enhanced U.S.-Japan alliance level, and strengthening regional conflict-control capability in order to maintain regional security and order, to ensure the national interests of the United States. The U.S. Asia-Pacific military deployment realignment only in the initial stages and then continued to be staggered impact of the external and internal environment changed; it deserved of deep concern and continued research.
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