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In 2004, the Bush administration launched the “Global Posture Review.” This plan, it is intended, will reorganize the ways US forces are stationed or deployed overseas over several years, thereby giving rise to the biggest change in the US military’s overseas posture since the end of the Cold War. The major objectives of the realignment are to alleviate political constraints stemming from foreign governments, increase the US freedom of action, reposition US forces closer to the “arc of instability,” and experiment with stationing US troops in and around Africa or Central Asia. Such an ambitious plan is fraught with risks, notably whether this extension of the US global security perimeter will be supported domestically and whether it will overextend US armed forces internationally.