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資料 編：「Contents of CINPAC, Cincpac Commad 北東アジアにおける米軍の兵力構成に関する研究( 資料 Title 編：「Contents of CINPAC, CinCPAC Commad History, 1960-1984」-3 ) Author(s) 我部, 政明 Citation Issue Date 2004-02-08 URL http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12000/446 Rights CINCPAC Obtained under tile Freedom of Information ~ by the Nautilus!nstitu NUclear PoUcy Project1:8 COMl\1AND HISTORY 1973 Declaumedby: Y~~N~. ~~ Dati Declassified: lj v tJ , :l Althorily: SEC 3.1 E.O. 12958 ,laLUl\1E I fGRMERl V RESTRICTED DATA Unauthorized disclosure subject to Classified by CfNCPAC administrative and criminal sanctions. Handle as Restricted Data in foreign No Foreign Dissemination i dissemination. Section 144b. Atomic Energv Act. 1954. r- -, • t c:opy_'-_'OF 6S COPIES TOP-se-CRE.T f 1 it~ i ~nSll~ ~.i· ~1 CIFD U I\; r 1 ~ 11 ~.. "- I ;.:/ :? _. u·- 7 _.I I _...... - -249- TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I Letter of Promulgation i Title Page iii Foreword v Preface vi i Table of Contents ;x List of Illustrations xxv CHAPTER I--THE STATUS OF THE COMMAND 1 SECTION I--THE PACIFIC COMMAND 1 SECTION II--THE CINCPAC STAFF 23 Key Personnel Changes in 1973 23 The CINCPAC Staff 28 Reduction of General/Flag Officer Billets on CINCPAC's Staff 29 Executive Administrative Offices 32 Joint Secretariat 32 Personnel Directorate 32 Operations Directorate 33 Logistics Directorate 34 Plans Directorate 35 Communications-Data Processing Directorate 35 Security Assistance Directorate 37 Establishment of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Regional Office Pacific (AROP) 37 Center for Naval Analyses Representative to CINCPAC Staff 38 Changes to Administrative Workweek 40 SECTION III--COMMAND AND CONTROL 41 Reorganization of PACOM Studied ~ 41 Support Requirements for CINCPAC Alternate Command Faci1itYf!!II!! 44 Pass; bi 1i ty of Defense Department Coordi nators Exp 1ored . 45 Major New Organizations Fonmed in Southeast Asia 45 U.S. Support Activities Group/7th Air Force 47 U.S. Defense Attache Office, Saigon 50 Four-Party Joint Military Commission and Team 57 Military Assistance Command Vietnam Disestablished 57 ix -250- SECTION III--COMMAND AND CONTROL (Continued) ·Defense Attache Office, Vientiane Established 57 Command Relations/Operations Agreement for P1anni~g with CINCSAC 58 Command Arrangements ~greement with CINC U.S. Readiness Conmand 59 Command Arrangements Agreement with CINC Atlantic Command· 60 New CINCPACflT Single Point of Contact to CINC Alaska Designated 61 Electric Warfare liaison Officer. from USAFSS to CINCPAC 61 Service Affiliation of General Officers on Taiwan 62 Inspector. General Activities · 65 Command and Control Facilities 66 Emergency Action Procedur.es 68 GIANT MOON 5 Planning Conference 69 Alternate Command Facility at Guam Redesignated 70 Ai rborne Command Post Activities 70 Vi sits of Journa1i sts to Oi ego Garcia 73 SECTION·IV--U.S. BASES OVERSEAS 75 United States Bases in Japan and Okinawa 75 Homepo~ting of MIDWAY in Japan . 87 U.S. Forces and 89 Guam and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 93 CHAPTER II--THE THREAT 103 The Strategic Threat 103 Sino-Soviet Military Confrontation 106 The Threat in the PACOM 108 The Soviet Union 108 -The Peop1e ls Republic of China 109 111 111 112 114 117 117 Threat to Japan 118 Republic of China Vi~ws the Threat 118 Soviet Intentions in Southeast Asia 119 PRe Intentions in Southeast Asia 119 A Scenario for Non-Nuclear Conflict 120 x CHAPTER III--PLANNING.. ]25 SECTION I--NATIONAL LEVEL PLANNING 125 FY 75 Posture Statement 125 Joint Strategic Objectives Plan 128 Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan 132 Single Integrated Operation. Plan 133 The Joint Operation Planning System (JOPS) 133 SECTION II--CINCPAC P~ANS 137 ~ii.i 137 ••iiiiron Plans 142 CONPLAN 5060C (EAGLE PULL) 146 OPLAN 5076 153 CONPLANS 5096 and 5097 153 OPLAN ISLAND TREE 153 FRESH MANDATE 154 OPLAN FRESH TIGER 155 Inactive or Superseded Plans 155 SECTION III--CINCPAC PLANNING IN ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER COMMANDERS 159 Support for U.S. CINC European Command Plans 159 Mine Countermeasures and Inshore Undersea Warfare Planni.ig for Alaskan Waters 161 U.S.-Japan Planning . 162 Bilateral Planning With~Military Authorities 167 SECTION IV--PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS PLANNING 169­ Program and Budget Development 169 Strategic Psychological Operations in Southeast Asia 171 Psychological Operations Support for the ,Joint Casualty Resolution Center 174 SECTION V--MISCELLANEOUS PLANNING ACTIVITIES 181 Force Deployments and Redeployments-~Southeast Asia 181 U.S. Nuclear Policy 185 Unconventional Warfare 185+. CINCPAC Staff Officers Visit South Asia 186' International Ocean Exposition (EXPO-7S) 18&.... xi -252- CHAPTER IV--MILITARY OPERATIONS 189 SECTION I--OPERATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 191 Rules of Engagement and Operating Authorities for Southeast Asia 191 Air Operations--Southeast Asia 207 Personnel Recovery 212 CINCPAC CONPLAN 5100--Personnel Recovery 212 CINCPAC CONPLAN 51l9--Casualty Resolution 214 Southeast Asia Naval Operations 225 Mine Countermeasures--Operation END SWEEP 228 MARKET TIME 234 Escorts for Mekong River Convoys 235 SECTION II--RECONNAISSANCE ACTIVITIES 239 PACOM Assumption of Alaskan Command PARPRO Responsibilities 239 Southeast Asia Reconnaissance 240 Paracel Islands Surveillance 242 HULA HOOP 246 PONY EXPRESS 249 CIRCUIT GOLD Employment 254 Ai r Sam p1i n9. 255 SECTION III--EXERCISES 257 HIGH HEELS-73 257 JOLLY ROGER 257 Peacetime Emey'gency Situation Exercises 259 FREQUENT RIDER 259 FORECAST STORM 259 Command Relationships for Exercises in Taiwan 260 UGNAYAN 261 FREEDOM TORCH 261 SECTION IV--RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 263 Joint Research and Development Objectives Document 263 Annual Review of Research Projects and Systems Analysis 264 Countermeasures to Surface-to-Air Missiles 265 Research and Development Support in Vietnam 266 Joint Research Programs with Australia 267 Technical Coordination with Japanese R&D Efforts· 270 ~ xii -253- SECTION V--REPORTING 271 Operational Reporting 271 OPREP-3 273 OPREP-4 275 OPREP-5 276 Commanders Situation Reports 277 END SWEEP 278 SECTION VI--ELECTRONIC WARFARE 279 Southeast Asia Tactical Data System Interface 279 SA-3 Missile Threat 279 WESTPACNORTH Compatibility Program 280 Electroni c Warfare Support for Japan 281 SECTION VII--MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS ACTIVITIES 283 Mid-East War Related Operations 283 Amphibious Ready Group Posture 289 Nuclear Weapons Security 290 Permissive Action Link (PAL) in the PACOM 291 Operations Security 291 Nuclear Powered and Other Ship Visits to Foreign Ports 292 Search and Rescue Faci1ities--Guam Sector 295 Pakistan Flood Relief 296 Proposed Hawaiian Islands Wilderness Area 296 CHA?TER V--LOGISTICS 297 S~CTION I--PLANS/POLICY 297 JOPS Interim Software Program 297 p .ACO~·i SOLACE 297 Post Ceasefire Logistics-Vietnam 299 Administrative/Logistics Support to DAO Saigon 299 Support for ICCS in Vietnam 302 Support Cambodia Out of Thailand (SCOOT) 305 Consolidation Trends 309 Management of Wholesale Subsistence Stocks 310 Defense Retail Inter-Service Support (ORIS) 310 Property Disposal Consolidation 312 Environmental Protection 312 Inter-Service Support Agreements (ISSA) 313 PACOM Utilization and Distribution Agency (PURA) 313 xiii -254- SECTION .. II--PETROLEUM t OIL., LUBRI.CANTS (POL) 315 Arab Oil Embargo ' 315 Pre-Embargo POL Situation 318 Embargo Declared-23 ·October 1973 321 Embargo Broadened 322 Operational Impact 323 PACOM Energy Crisis-Impact and Policy 326 Allocation of Automotive Gasoline, PACOM 330 CINCPAC Views the Energy Crisis 331 POL in Southeast Asia 332 Vietnam Shuttle Tankers 332 POL Su art-Cambodia 333 335 336 SECTION III--MUNITIONS 337 PACOM Munitions 337 Munitions Support-Southeast Asia 339 Ground Munitions-Vietnam 339 Air Munitions-Laos and Cambodia 340 SECTION IV--TRANSPORTATION 343 Airlift .·uel Conservation 343 C-130 Force Level 343 Special Use of C-130 Aircraft 345 Logistics Transportation Support to Cambodia 346 NIM3LE THRUST 346 NIMBLE VOYAGE 346 PILLAR POST 347 Route 4 Logistics Enhancement: POL Transpbrt 348 Airlift Support to Cambodia 350 Intra-Cambodia Rice Airlift 351 Vietnam Transportation Actions 351 Operation COUNTDOWN 351 FPJMC 352 Airlift Support of the VNAF 352 Troopship Retirement 353 De Long Pier Retrograde 353 De 1ta Rock Haul Support ' 354 SECTION V--CONSTRUCTION 355 Ordnance Facilities-Hawaii 355 Navy Ammunition Depot Retained 355 Community Concern-Hazardous Underground Structures 355 xiv -255- SECTION V--CONSTRUCTION (Continu~d) Conventional Ammunition Storage Site Security 356 Japan 357 Okinawa 357 358 -~Thailand 358 Hawaii 359 MILCON in Thailand 359 Facilities to Support Withdrawal 359 VIASA Upgrade 361 MILCON at ASA Location 178 362 MILCON in Vietnam 364 Approval Authority-Minor Construction, Maintenance. Repair 364 Transfer of Constructio~AdministrativeFunctions 364 ..........ambOdia 366 366 Construction Management 366 WWMCCS Computer Mainframe Facility 367 CHAPTER VI--COMMUNICATIONS-DATA PROCESSING 369 S~CTION I--COMMANO AND CONTROL 369 Command-Control-Communications-Computers 369 Indian Ocean Communications 370 Management of the National Communications System Restoration Priorities System 371 Consolidation of Telecommunications Cen~ers Studied 372 Camp Smith Telecommunications Centers Consolidated and Reassigned 374 World-Wide Military Command and Control Syste~ Computer ~nstal1ed 376 Improved Emergency Message Automatic Transmission System 376 Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network 377 Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON) 378 SECTION II--PLANS AND PROGRAMS 381 Post-Hostilities Communications-Electronics Planning--Thailand 381 Communications Satellites 381 Improved MUSCLE TRUNK
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