海湾危机爆发以来,美军不仅从本土和西欧抽调大批兵力云集海湾,布什总统还下令征召后备役人员服役。这是自70年代初美国实行后备役制度以来,美军在实战中第一次大规模征召后备役人员,因此受到各方的普遍关注。美国军内外对此给予了肯定。参议院军事委员会主席纳恩认为,这一行动“使军事决策人对未来应付突发事件中使用后备役部队增 Since the outbreak of the Gulf crisis, the U.S. military has not only deployed a large number of troops from the mainland and Western Europe to gather the Gulf. President Bush also ordered the reservists to enlist in service. This is the first large-scale enlistment of reserve personnel by the U.S. military in actual combat since the reserve system was implemented by the United States in the early 1970s and therefore has drawn the general attention of all parties. The U.S. military and the U.S. have affirmed this. Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, believes that this action "enables military policy makers to increase the use of reserve forces in emergencies to be dealt with in the future