Posted on Feb 2, 2016
More U.S. troops deploying to Europe in 2017
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The Pentagon plans to send several thousand additional troops to Europe next year to boost the region’s defense against Russia, a new recognition that the former Cold War foe is once again a major global rival, defense officials said.
The troops, most of them soldiers coming from the continental United States, will move into Eastern Europe on a rotational basis, providing for the first time an essentially permanent presence of American forces in places like Poland and the Baltics, according to defense officials familiar with the plan.
The plan will likely involve a brigade-size force — or between 3,000 and 5,000 soldiers — and will also include placing stocks of well-maintained gear and ammunition in forward locations across NATO's eastern flank, defense officials said.
“We're going to have to help countries to harden themselves against Russian influence … and also mount — as we did in decades past — staunch defense of our NATO allies,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday in Washington.
“This is an unwelcome development in European history," Carter said.
Details of the new European deployments came as Carter spoke about the Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal 2017, which begins in October. That budget request will be officially released next Tuesday.
The troops, most of them soldiers coming from the continental United States, will move into Eastern Europe on a rotational basis, providing for the first time an essentially permanent presence of American forces in places like Poland and the Baltics, according to defense officials familiar with the plan.
The plan will likely involve a brigade-size force — or between 3,000 and 5,000 soldiers — and will also include placing stocks of well-maintained gear and ammunition in forward locations across NATO's eastern flank, defense officials said.
“We're going to have to help countries to harden themselves against Russian influence … and also mount — as we did in decades past — staunch defense of our NATO allies,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday in Washington.
“This is an unwelcome development in European history," Carter said.
Details of the new European deployments came as Carter spoke about the Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal 2017, which begins in October. That budget request will be officially released next Tuesday.
More U.S. troops deploying to Europe in 2017
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It is interesting that after our drawdown from western Europe for so many years we have been increasing our presence in eastern Europe which many of us were prepared to fight to the death during the cold war SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL. Our forces in Bulgaria and forces in Poland which supported our line of communication and support in the area east of the Balkans and defended against the Russian bear in the area of the Baltic sea and states have held the line even while our forces in Germany were drawn down and bases returned to the Germans.
I suppose what goes around comes around may be appropriate.
I suppose what goes around comes around may be appropriate.
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So we pull out and give everything back, just to move BACK in, and re-establish ourselves? Someone correct me if I'm way off, but wouldn't it have been cheaper just to keep some folks in place?
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