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High-ranking US military officials seek to deploy more troops to Europe on a rotating basis in order to ramp up America’s presence there.
According to the Wall Street Journal, new defense measures were proposed over the last weekend at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. These would allow the US military to maintain multiple brigades in Europe at any given time, significantly exceeding current limits.
The US Army currently maintains two infantry brigades (approximately 7,000 servicemen, total) in Eastern Europe, with one other brigade rotating in and out of Europe on a regular basis.
General Mark Milley, US Army Chief of Staff, told the Wall Street Journal that he wants to add more brigades plus additional attack helicopter units, engineering teams and artillery to the forces rotating to Europe. The general insisted that such actions were necessary to prevent new conflicts from erupting in Europe, arguing that “aggression left unanswered is likely to lead to more aggression.”
