Excerpt from The Global Posture Review of United States Military Forces Stationed Overseas: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, September 23, 2004 This plan is the result of the administration's comprehensive 3 year review of America's global force posture - the numbers, types, locations, and capabilities of us. Forces around the world. Exten sive consultations with our allies and our friends have taken place, and it was an integral and important part of this plan. The plan represents the most comprehensive restructuring of us. Military forces stationed overseas, currently numbering ap proximately over since the end of the Korean War. It rep resents the final chapter, in my judgment, of this Nation's efforts to transform our global defense posture away from the outdated Cold War strategies and missions to better meet today/s and tomor row's very complex, very different threats to our Nation's security. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.