More US troops for Europe
It was just three years ago that we read about the last tanks leaving Germany because the world had changed so much that the folks in the Pentagon figured that we didn’t need a presence like that in Europe. Well, now, because the pendulum has swung back in the other direction, Pentagon planners are worried that we don’t have enough troops in Europe, according to the Military Times.
“We do not have, in my opinion, enough U.S. forces permanently stationed forward … so I believe that the permanent forces forward need to be reviewed,” [EUCOM Commander, Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove], who also serves as NATO’s supreme commander, told reporters March 1.
These high-level discussions at the Pentagon come amid growing worry that U.S. and NATO forces would be quickly overwhelmed in a fight against the far larger Russian force aligned along NATO’s eastern border. A recent series of classified exercises, featuring scenarios forecasting Russian military advances into Europe, is summarized in a report released in February from the RAND Corp.
We didn’t “need” 200.000 trops and thousands of tanks and personnel carriers in Europe during the 80’s but they were there as a deterrent. Funny how when they pull the forces out, there is suddenly a threat. I guess that what’s deterrent means.
Category: Big Pentagon
I see Russia as less a threat that another group presents.
I agree about the other groups. Don’t forget, though, what Putin’s background is. He is fully capable of starting some heavy shit.
Yeah, he only spent the majority of his adult life as part of the KGB.
Don’t forget Kim Jong Un and his mis-adventures.
He too is capable generating some heavy shit.
Although, completely not in the way Pooty Poot is.
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More US troops to Europe?
How many ME refugees will this displace? Just when they finally found warm shelter and a cot.
Oh the humanity.
My neighbor’s dog is an ass hole along with my neighbor, for instance. So I put up a fence and get a bigger dog. Everything becomes copacetic. The neighbor’s dog dies. I take down my fence and pay to have my dog moved to the farm and be cared for. The neighbor’s brother moves in and he has an ass hole for a dog worse than the first. “What’s past is prologue.”
As much as we need so many things in our military, why did we go to the expense of moving everything there out, only to move it back in. But then I am trying to apply logic to a situation run by folks who seem never to factor logic into any decision.
Gooberment? Logic?
Now THERE’S an oxymoron of epic proportions.
Not really. When government has adult leadership, it generally uses logic.
When it’s led by someone (or some group) that believes in faeries, pixie dust, and unicorns, however . . . .
Sparks, surely you’re not talking about the Greek neighbors. I was beginning to like them!
No they’re cool. It was hypothetical. Besides, the Greek wife made me a mess of real Greek roasted lamb chops. Now we’re GOOD neighbors!
REFORGER 2016
were do I sign up?
Yeah, count me in, too.
I cant wait to get the official beer stein.
No way will they stick me driving a M792 Gamma Goat Ambulance again!
Does this mean I have to return my Cold War certificate and commemorative medal?
Nah. But you might end up adding a service star to the commemorative medal.
Just when you thought you’d never see Graf or Hohenfels again…
Red dust or white dust…
I think I still have some of my map books
Not that I’d need any for Graf – “what firing point is it next to?”
Does anyone remember “Book Store Annie”?
Soon a Europe deployment will be counted as a combat deployment due to the volume of rampaging Muslims currently invading Europe. Amazing how we pulled out of Islamic states only to go right back in.