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 104 STAT. 1624 PUBLIC LAW 101-510—NOV. 5, 1990 (3) The second report shall cover intratheater requirements, surface requirements, and requirements for mobility within the continental United States, shall contain a copy of the integrated plan regarding such requirements, and shall be submitted not later than June 28, 1991. (c) FORMAT AND CONTENT OF REPORTS. —(1) Each report shall be in the same format as the report submitted to Congress under section 20303) of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 (Public Law 96-342; 94 Stat. 1080), and shall cover (in addition to the matters specified in paragraphs (2) and (3)) the same matters required under such section and the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference relating to such Act, as set out in Senate Report 96-895, 96th Congress, second session. (2) The two reports together shall include an analysis of the total mix of airlift, sealift, amphibious lift, surface transportation, and prepositioned war material (both at sea and on land) necessary for the United States to respond to contingent threats against the national security interests of the United States during the remainder of the current decade and beyond. The analysis of prepositioned war material should identify where such material should be located. The analysis may not be limited to consideration of a single requirement for lift and material based upon the most demanding case, but shall include an assessment of a range of requirements for lift and materisd based upon various military contingencies and scenarios. The Operation Just Cause and Operation Desert Shield deplojonents shall be included among the scenarios examined. The analysis shall also include— (A) an Eissessment of both intratheater and intertheater lift requirements; and (B) an assessment of the total requirements for mobility, including support equipment and the equipment necessary for strategic mobility at unimproved ports, airfields, and other facilities. (3) The two reports together shall also include the following: (A) An Eissessment of how the total mix of mobility and prepositioning requirements has been affected by changing circumstances in Europe and elsewhere, including— (i) an increase in the opportunities to detect any planned attack by the Soviet Union; (ii) an increase in the time likely to be available to prepare for such an attack after detection; (iii) a reduced level of Soviet threat to the national security interests of the United States; (iv) the decreasing level of Armed Forces personnel deployed overseas; (v) the changing threat in Northeast Asia; and (vi) the changing threat in Southwest Asia. (B) An assessment of how such requirements are being af- fected by the changing need for power projection capability in low-intensity and medium-intensity conflicts. (C) An assessment of how such requirements would be af- fected by the loss of United States military bases, and the loss of access to other military bases, in such overseas locations as the Philippines. (D) An assessment of how the reduced reliance expected to be placed by the Armed Forces on ^ATO and other allied shipping and military bases for employment of the Armed Forces unilat-

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