Military - expansion

[littlewolf]

Ok - Bush was going to pull one combat brigade out of Europe ...
and now President Obama is going to canx that and expand the military in Europe ..
whats up with that .... ?

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Links?

Links?

[littlewolf]

2. here is what I found ....

http://www.acus.org/natosource/obama-adminstration-plans-more-us-forces-2015-past-decade?utm_source=twitterfeed_utm=medium

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We are adapting that commitment to new realities – the troop decision Mr Stephens refers to being one case in point. After extensive review and broad consultations with allies, President Barack Obama decided to reverse the Bush administration’s decision to withdraw two of the four US combat brigades in Europe and instead decided to retain three, as of 2015. Those brigades will be complemented by new forward deployments of Aegis ships and special operations aircraft, a permanent aviation detachment in Poland, and land-based missile defence systems in Poland and Romania. In the end, with the winding-down of the mission in Afghanistan, there will likely be more US forces in Europe in 2015 than there have been for the past decade. . . . .