美國放棄二正面戰略

Recently the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:
米国のオバマ大統領とパネッタ国防長官は５日、国防総省で記者会見し、国防費削減に伴う国防戦略の見直し結果を発表する。
　米紙によると、地上戦力の縮小により、「二正面戦略」の展開能力を維持しないと明示する一方、中国の脅威などをにらんで、アジア重視の戦力配置を打ち出す見通しだ。
　財政赤字の膨張を受け、大統領は昨年夏、向こう１０年間で総額４５００億ドル（約３４兆５０００億円）規模の国防費を削減する方針を表明。議会からは一層の削減要求が出ており、大統領は国防総省に対し、米国と同盟国の安全保障を維持しながら、米軍の効率的運用を図るよう国防戦略の抜本的見直しを指示していた。
　ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙などによると、大統領は「二正面戦略」放棄の代わりに、一つの大規模紛争に対処し勝利する一方、「第二の敵」が戦争を起こさないように封じ込めを図るという新方針を表明する。イラク戦争終結とアフガニスタン駐留米軍の撤収などを受けて、今後、陸軍と海兵隊の人員が大幅削減されるのに伴う措置だ。

(試譯文)
US President Obama and Defense Secretary Panetta gave an interview in the Department of Defense on the 5th, and they would release the re-examination result of the national-defense strategy that accompanied a cut in national defense expenditure.
According to a US newspaper, while it showed the US did not have the deployment capability to maintain the "Two Frontal Strategy" due the reduction of ground military power, it was expected to glare at a Chinese threat etc. and to hammer out the military power arrangement that focused on Asia.
In last year's summer the President announced a plan that would reduce the national defense expenditure at scale up to a total of 450 billion-dollar (about 34,500 billion yen) in the next ten years in response to an increase in budget deficit. Further reduction demand was received from the Congress, and in order to maintain the security of the U.S. and its ally, the President, aiming at the Department of Defense, pointed to radical re-examination of the national-defense strategy to look for more efficient employment of the U.S. Forces.
According to the New York Times, while the President abandoned the "Two Frontal Strategy" and coped with winning one large-scale conflict instead, he announced a new plan that aimed at containment so that "the second enemy" might not cause a war. It was a measure that accompanied with a sizable cut in the army and the marine corps's staff now being carried out, and also in response to the conclusion of the Iraq war and the recovery of U.S. Forces stationed in Afghanistan etc.

It seems that the new plan is a policy of containment in Asia. In a sense the US is returning to Asia.