论日美同盟与日本的海外派兵

日美同盟的强化，是冷战后日本政府实施海外派兵的重要动力：以向海湾地区派遣扫雷艇编队为发端，日本自卫队的海外派兵任务开始从参加联合国维和领域扩展至介入“周边事态”领域；为支持美国的反恐战争，日本自卫队的海外派兵法制“日趋完善且渐成体系”；日美联合军演，则进一步提升了日本自卫队的境外实战能力。

On the Japanese-American Union and Japan's Dispatching Soldiers Overseas

The strengthening of the Japanese-American union is the important driving force for the Japanese government to dispatch soldiers overseas. Beginning by dispatching the team of sweeping mines to the Persian Gulf, the mission of the oversea soldiers dispatched by the Japanese self-defence team expands from the participation in the peace-keeping field of UN at the beginning to involving in "the neighbor affairs". In order to support the American anti-horror war, the Japanese self-defence team's law of dispatching soldiers overseas "becomes perfect and gradually forms the system. The Japanese-American military manoeuvres improve the Japanese self-defence team's fighting capability in the foreign countries.