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WASHINGTON — In vowing in Estonia on Wednesday to defend vulnerable NATO nations from Russia “for as long as necessary,” President Obama has now committed the United States to three major projections of its power: a “pivot” to Asia, a more muscular presence in Europe and a new battle against Islamic extremists that seems very likely to accelerate. American officials acknowledge that these three commitments are bound to upend Mr. Obama’s plans for shrinking the Pentagon’s budget before he leaves office in 2017. They also challenge a crucial doctrine of his first term: that a reliance on high technology and minimal use of a “light footprint” of military forces can deter ambitious powers and counter terrorists. And the commitments may well reverse one of the critical tenets of his two presidential campaigns, that the money once spent in Iraq and Afghanistan would be turned to “nation-building at home.” But the accumulation of new defensive initiatives leaves open the question of how forcefully Mr. Obama is committed to reversing the suspicion, from Europe to the Middle East to Asia, that the United States is in an era of retrenchment. In his travels in Europe this week and a lengthy tour of Asia planned this fall, the president faces a dual challenge: convincing American allies and partners that he has no intention to leave power vacuums around the globe for adversaries to fill, while convincing Americans that he can face each of these brewing conflicts without plunging them back into another decade of large military commitments and heavy casualties. 華盛頓 - 在誓要在愛沙尼亞週三捍衛脆弱的北約國家從俄羅斯“所必需的,只要”奧巴馬總統已經承諾美國在其力量的三大預測:一個“支點”,以亞洲,更肌肉的存在在歐洲和打擊伊斯蘭極端分子的新的戰鬥,似乎很可能會加快。 美國官員承認,這三個承諾,必將顛覆奧巴馬的計劃縮減五角大樓的預算在他離開之前,在2017年的辦公室,他們也挑戰他的第一個任期內的一個重要原則:即對高科技和極少使用的依賴了“軍隊的輕腳印“可以阻止野心勃勃的權力和反恐怖分子。並承諾很可能扭轉他的一兩次總統競選的關鍵原則之一,曾經用在伊拉克和阿富汗的資金將轉向“建國在家裡。” 但是,新的防禦舉措的積累留下了怎樣用力奧巴馬致力於扭轉了懷疑,從歐洲到中東到亞洲的問題,即美國在緊縮的時代。他在歐洲的這一周,一個漫長的亞洲之旅計劃在今年秋天的旅行,總統面臨著雙重挑戰:說服美國的盟友和夥伴,他無意離開世界各地的對手,以填補權力真空,而有說服力的美國人他可以面對這些矛盾醞釀未經暴跌它們放回大的軍事承諾,傷亡慘重的另一個十年。 華盛頓 - 在誓要在愛沙尼亞週三捍衛脆弱的北約國家從俄羅斯“所必需的,只要”奧巴馬總統已經承諾美國在其力量的三大預測:一個“支點”,以亞洲,更肌肉的存在在歐洲和打擊伊斯蘭極端分子的新的戰鬥,似乎很可能會加快。 美國官員承認,這三個承諾,必將顛覆奧巴馬的計劃縮減五角大樓的預算在他離開之前,在2017年的辦公室,他們也挑戰他的第一個任期內的一個重要原則:即對高科技和極少使用的依賴了“軍隊的輕腳印“可以阻止野心勃勃的權力和反恐怖分子。並承諾很可能扭轉他的一兩次總統競選的關鍵原則之一,曾經用在伊拉克和阿富汗的資金將轉向“建國在家裡。” 但是,新的防禦舉措的積累留下了怎樣用力奧巴馬致力於扭轉了懷疑,從歐洲到中東到亞洲的問題,即美國在緊縮的時代。他在歐洲的這一周,一個漫長的亞洲之旅計劃在今年秋天的旅行,總統面臨著雙重挑戰:說服美國的盟友和夥伴,他無意離開世界各地的對手,以填補權力真空,而有說服力的美國人他可以面對這些矛盾醞釀未經暴跌它們放回大的軍事承諾,傷亡慘重的另一個十年。
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 03:42:33 +0000

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