The United States will remain perfectly capable of carrying out its commitments as a member of the NATO alliance as it rebalances its global military posture in line with the 'pivot to Asia' announced earlier this year. This was according to Leo G. Michel, from the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the US National Defense University, during an IISS meeting on 8 May. Michel said common interpretations of the 'pivof strategy had not done it justice. In fact, the shift to greater attention towards Asia was not new, and changes begun by the George W. Bush administration were being carried through. What was being done was a re-examination of security arrangements with specific countries, such as Japan and South Korea where the US already maintained substantial forces. The outcome would be to move around some military assets, to increase them in some parts of the region and reduce them in others. US Marines would be rotated through Australia, littoral combat ships would move to Singapore, and there would be closer military ties with the Philippines.
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机译：美国将继续完全有能力履行其作为北约联盟成员的承诺，因为它根据今年早些时候宣布的“通往亚洲的枢纽”来重新平衡其全球军事态势。根据美国国防大学国家战略研究所的Leo G. Michel在5月8日的IISS会议上的说法。米歇尔说，对“枢纽战略”的普遍解释并没有做到这一点。实际上，转移到更多关注亚洲并不是什么新鲜事，乔治·W·布什（George W. Bush）政府开始进行的变革也在进行中。正在做的是与特定国家（例如日本和韩国）进行安全安排的重新审查，在这些国家中，美国已经维持了强大的力量。结果将是动用一些军事资产，增加该地区某些地区的军事资产，而减少其他地区的军事资产。美国海军陆战队将轮流穿越澳大利亚，沿海战斗舰将移至新加坡，与菲律宾的军事联系将更加紧密。
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