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Given the US has army bases all in and around Europe, more than any European country, I bet the US wouldn't comply. That's been declining: 430,000 US troops in
by LAC-Tech 4y ago
Given the US has army bases all in and around Europe, more than any European country, I bet the US wouldn't comply.
That's been declining: 430,000 US troops in Europe in the '50s, and about 60,000 at the beginning of this year.
https://www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/troops-in-europe/ https://www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/troops-in-europe/
- dragonwriter 4y ago> That’s been declining: 430,000 US troops in Europe in the ’50s, and about 60,000 at the beginning of this year. That’s been increasing, up to over 100,000 in June of this year. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3078056/fact-sheet-us-defense-contributions-to-europe/ https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/307805...
- LAC-Tech 4y agoAll there to coerce France and Germany, no doubt!
- pessimizer 4y agoOnly if they want to have pipelines.
- anigbrowl 4y agoNumbers like that don't mean anything out of context. Military deployments are best estimated in terms of firepower; a cruise missile battery may have a greater strategic impact than 1000 troops. Likewise, the strategic situation in the 1950s, along with its recent past and foreseeable future, was vastly different from that of the present.