美國閱兵至少推遲到年

The U.S. Defense Department says a military parade that President Donald Trump has called for is being postponed until at least next year.

“We originally targeted November 10, 2018 for this event but have now agreed to explore opportunities in 2019,” Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Robert Manning said Thursday.

The announcement comes as media reports said the cost estimate for the parade had gone from about $12 million to $92 million.

Speaking to reporters aboard a U.S. military aircraft Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said that he had given initial guidance for the parade, but he had not seen any cost estimates yet.

According to a Pentagon memo released in March, the postponed parade is expected to go from the White House to the U.S. Capitol.

The memo said the focus of the parade will be on the "contributions of U.S. military veterans throughout history," starting from the American Revolutionary War.

The parade will include wheeled vehicles but no tanks. Some troops will wear period uniforms, and the airplanes used at the end of the parade will also include "older aircraft, as available."

The inspiration to hold a military parade came from the president's trip to France last year when he and first lady Melania Trump watched Bastille Day events in Paris on July 14, as the guests of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

Military parades in the United States are generally rare. In 1991, U.S. troops paraded through Washington to celebrate the ousting of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces from Kuwait in the Gulf War.美國國防部表示，川普總統所要求的閱兵式至少推遲到明年才舉辦。

五角大樓發言人陸軍上校曼寧在週四表示：“我們最初定於2018年11月10日閱兵，但現在已經同意探索在2019年閱兵的機會。”

最近有媒體報道稱，閱兵的費用估算從大約1200萬美元增加到9200萬美元。

美國國防部長吉姆·馬蒂斯星期四在一架美國軍用飛機上對記者說，他已經爲這次檢閱軍隊提供了初步指導，但他還沒有看到任何成本估算。

根據五角大樓3月發佈的一份備忘錄，接受檢閱的軍人將從白宮走到美國國會大廈。

這個備忘錄說，閱兵式的重點是美國獨立戰爭以來美國軍人做出的貢獻。參加閱兵的有帶輪子的軍用車輛，但是沒有坦克。參加閱兵的一些軍隊將穿着不同歷史時期的軍裝，閱兵結束時飛過天空的飛機也將根據資源情況包括一些老式飛機。

美國總統川普和夫人梅拉妮亞去年7月14日作爲法國總統馬克龍和夫人布麗吉特的嘉賓觀看了法國國慶日活動。川普隨後提出了閱兵的想法。

美國很少舉行閱兵式。1991年在華盛頓舉行過，爲的是慶祝在海灣戰爭中把薩達姆的伊拉克軍隊趕出科威特。