[2004/04/07]北 우려, 美 `1-4-2-1' 전략이란[연합뉴스, LA Times]
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| < 北 우려 美 `1-4-2-1' 전략이란 > (서울=연합뉴스) 강진욱기자 = 북한의 조선중앙통신이 6일 '논평'에서 미국 국 방부가 마련한 '1-4-2-1 전략'에 대해 깊은 우려를 표시해 이 전략에 대한 궁금증이 일고 있다. 미국의 군사전문 칼럼니스트인 윌리엄 아킨(William M. Arkin)은 지난달 21일 로스앤젤레스타임스(LAT)에 '미 전쟁계획, 간소화는 커녕 더 요란해져'(War Plans M eaner, Not Leaner)라는 글을 게재해 미 국방부가 마련한 새 군사전략의 개요를 공 개했다. 아킨은 2년 전인 2002년 3월 역시 로스앤젤레스타임스에 미 군부의 비밀문건인 핵태세보고서(NPR)을 처음 공개해 북한과 중국 및 러시아 등의 거센 반발을 불러일 으켰던 장본인이다. 아킨에 따르면 '1-4-2-1 전략'은 클린턴행정부가 8년간 유지했던 오던 '두 개 전쟁 동시승리전략'(일명 '윈-윈(Win-Win) 전략')을 대체하는 것으로 부시행정부 출 범 이후 본격 검토해 온 신(新)군사전략의 결정판으로 볼 수 있다. '1-4-2-1 전략'은 2002년 8월 부시 미 대통령이 '비상계획지침' (Contingency P lanning Guidance)에 서명하면서 그 청사진이 드러났고 지난 한 해 동안 정형화작업 을 거쳤다고 아킨은 밝히고 있다. 실제로 새 군사전략은 2001년 9월30일 발표된 4개 년 국방검토보고(QDR)의 핵심 개념들인 △본토 방어와 △주요 지역에서의 긴급사태 대비 및 △한 개 전선에서의 ' 결정적 승리' 등을 기본 축으로 하고 있다. QDR 발표 당시 미 언론은 '한 곳에서의 결정적 승리' 개념을 '원-플러스'(One-P lus) 전략이라고 지칭하면서 이것이 '윈-윈 전략'을 대체하는 것이라고 보도한 바 있다. 아킨이 공개한 미 국방부의 새 군사전략은 이라크와 북한을 겨냥했던 과거의 ' 두 개 전쟁 동시 승리' 개념을 포함하지만 군사작전 대상 지역을 네 곳으로 확대하 면서 가상 전장을 '네 곳 가운데 두 곳'으로 불분명하게 표시한 것이 특징이다. '1-4-2-1 전략'에서 첫 번째 '1'은 미국 본토에 대한 완전한 방어를, '4'는 유 럽과 동북아시아, 동아시아, 중동-서남아시아 등 4개 핵심 지역(critical regions) 지역에서의 '침략 및 위협 억제'(deterring aggression and coercion)를 의미한다. '2'는 이들 4개 지역 가운데 2개 지역에서 발생할 수 있는 침략을 동시에 물리 칠 수 있는(defeat aggressions) 군사력을 유지하는 것이고 마지막 '1'은 두 개 전 쟁(conflicts) 가운데 한 곳에서 결정적인 승리(win decisively)를 거둔다는 것이다. 아킨은 두 개 전쟁 가운데 "결정적 승리"를 거둘 대상과 그 시기는 미국이 결정 하며 상대국에 대한 '정권 교체'나 '점령' 또는 이에 준하는 상황을 '결정적 승리' 라고 설명하고 있다. 미국은 또 처음으로 특수전사령부 및 중앙정보국(CIA)이 벌이는 '특수 작전'을 군사작전에 포함시킴으로써 비정규전 또는 저강도전쟁(LICs) 개념을 강조하고 있다. 이처럼 다양한 군사작전을 포함해 방대한 지역에서 공격적으로 작전을 전개하겠 다는 구상은 당연히 천문학적인 군비가 들어갈 것임은 두 말할 나위가 없다고 아킨 은 지적했다. 자신의 글에 '전략 간소화 약속 공염불, 냉전이후전략 고려 부족'(Streamlining was promised but has not occurred - and postwar strategy still gets short shri ft)이라는 부제를 단 것도 이 때문이다. 그러나 문제는 천문학적 액수의 군비 조달 가능성에 대한 논란이 아니라 미국의 세계 군사전략이 이전보다 훨씬 공격적으로 변모했다는 사실이다. 이는 특히 주한미군 재배치를 포함한 미국의 세계군사력 재배치 구상과 맞물려 있을 뿐 아니라 미국이 북한을 '주적'화 하고 있는 상황에 비춰볼때 우려할만하다는 지적이다. kjw@yna.co.kr (끝) LATimes.com U.S. MILITARY War Plans Meaner, Not Leaner Streamlining was promised but has not occurred--and postwar strategy still gets short shrift. By William M. Arkin William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for Opinion. E-mail: warkin@igc.org. March 21, 2004 SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. ?When Donald Rumsfeld was named secretary of Defense in 2001, he made clear that his department would break with the past. He vowed to abandon outmoded Cold War military planning and eliminate Clinton-era strategies that officials felt were both bloated and misdirected. Now the Rumsfeld revision has been quietly unveiled, and the ambitious new strategy, far from streamlining the process, actually increases both the number of contingencies that war planners must consider and the number of plans they must prepare. Part of what has engorged the new approach to planning is the need for a wider range of military options in a post-9/11 world. But the strategy also reflects the Bush administration's ambitious new approach to world affairs. The Rumsfeld plan envisions what it labels a "1-4-2-1 defense strategy," in which war planners prepare to fully defend one country (the United States), maintain forces capable of "deterring aggression and coercion" in four "critical regions" (Europe, Northeast Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East and Southwest Asia), maintain the ability to defeat aggression in two of these regions simultaneously, and be able to "win decisively" ?up to and including forcing regime change and occupying a country ?in one of those conflicts "at a time and place of our choosing." The new strategy embraces the administration's philosophy of preemptive strikes as well as the Rumsfeld vision of integrating special and covert operations and nuclear weapons into future conventional military planning. At a time when American military forces are already stretched to the limit, the new strategy goes far beyond preparing for reactive contingencies and reads more like a plan for picking fights in new parts of the world. In the Clinton era, the Pentagon planned for fighting two wars simultaneously (in the Middle East and Northeast Asia). Under the new strategy, it must prepare for four. As a result, the Pentagon must redirect its thinking toward smaller, leaner strike forces, able to get the job done with fewer troops by making use of powerful precision weapons and newly developed information technologies. Troops will be placed closer to target areas with a new network of overseas bases, and regular forces will be integrated with special operations and augmented by CIA and other nonmilitary personnel. Although Rumsfeld originally hoped to reduce the number of war plans needed, a senior Defense Department civilian official says the desire for more flexibility has actually resulted in "more scenarios" and "a larger number of permutations," of a sort that could ultimately necessitate more defense spending. The 1-4-2-1 construct, first spelled out in Contingency Planning Guidance signed by President Bush in August 2002 and refined over the last year, orders the military to prepare 68 war plans. Under Bill Clinton, the military had 66 such plans. Under the Rumsfeld strategy the new plans will be focused on "theaterwide" rather than "country-specific" scenarios. The change reflects an attitude in Rumsfeld's inner circle, especially after the rapid victory in Afghanistan, that American military forces are so good they can take on any nation using the same general plan with little country-specific preparation. Despite Rumsfeld's early conviction to eliminate Cold War "bloat" and Clinton excesses, some major aspects of war planning haven't changed much. Now, as then, the cornerstone of planning is to ready the country for the possibility of large-scale wars against Iraq and North Korea. Now, as then, plans are being readied in the event of war with Iran. Now, as then, Russia is virtually ignored as a conventional military opponent, and China was relegated to the "too-hard-to-plan-for" category. But other things have changed dramatically. Sept. 11 necessitated the Defense Department's revision of some of its mission. The military now has "campaign plans" for both the global war on terrorism and for homeland security. One such document, the super-secret "OPLAN 2525," outlines contingencies up to and including the military taking control in the event of a breakdown of civil authority after a massive terrorist attack. And the Special Operations Command has been directed for the first time to prepare plans to conduct its own covert operations. The planning strategy also for the first time fully integrates special operations and the CIA into its war plans, undoubtedly because both forces made such major contributions to the military efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Rumsfeld's new approach also integrates nuclear planning into the more generalized war planning. Knowledgeable Defense officials say the "segregation" of nuclear and conventional war planning for scenarios such as North Korea and China has formally ended. The 1-4-2-1 approach, says one consultant study prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, "is allowing strategic nuclear capabilities to become but one component of a spectrum of potential strategic responses to global terrorism and rogue nations, rather than a separate level of capability." The approach would almost certainly result in further increases in defense spending. To facilitate a more comprehensive approach to global defense and warfare, overseas bases are likely to be expanded and new ones opened in order to allow for pre-positioning of heavy equipment overseas. Faster ships will be needed, as will more aerial refuelers and increased airlift capacity. The military also must expand and reorganize its strike forces. Already, the Army is reassigning some 18,000 regular soldiers to special operations, homeland defense and chemical/biological units. The Navy is nearly doubling the number of its strike groups (from 19 to 37). The Air Force is buying smaller smart bombs to be able to deliver more weapons to more targets. During the summer of 2001, Rumsfeld, making the kind of ABC (anything but Clinton) statement common in the new administration, attacked the military planning process. Quoting from a much-read military history of the Pearl Harbor attack, he said planning was obscured by "a routine obsession with a few dangers that may be familiar rather than likely." The planning model Rumsfeld and company have embraced is certainly more ambitious. It covers domestic and foreign contingencies and favors preemption over diplomacy, and military strikes over peacekeeping operations. The plan signals to the world that the United States considers nuclear weapons useful military instruments, to be employed where warranted. But in their single-minded desire to maintain global strike forces at the ready, Rumsfeld and his planners betray a blind spot. Military triumphs are only part of the picture. Unless as much planning goes into the peace that follows victory, even the best-laid war plans can't create a better world. |