1: Forward Posture and Presence
Increasing the capabilities of partners and their willingness to cooperate in operations that ensure regional security requires
an integrated, global view of our long-term strategy and enhancements to our overseas military posture. Combatant commanders,
employing a mix of forward stationed, rotational and temporarily deployed capabilities tailored to perform specific missions,
improve our ability to act within and across borders, strengthen the role of partners and expand joint and multinational capabilities.
Posture and presence enhancements also serve to assure our friends; improve the ability to prosecute the WOT; deter, dissuade
and defeat other threats; and support transformation. These changes, developed in anticipation of future threats, help to
ensure strategic access to key regions and lines of communications critical to US security and sustaining operations throughout
the battlespace. Within the process of adjusting our overseas presence, combatant commanders must develop and recommend posture
adjustments that enable expeditionary, joint, and multinational forces to act promptly and globally while establishing favorable
security conditions. The value and utility of having forces forward goes beyond winning on the battlefield. Employing forces
in instances short of war demonstrates the United States’ willingness to lead and encourages others to help defend, preserve
and extend the peace.
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