{"id":73724,"date":"2020-06-30T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/06\/30\/trump-approves-pentagon-plan-to-pull-9500-us-troops-from-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:37:09","slug":"trump-approves-pentagon-plan-to-pull-9500-us-troops-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/30\/trump-approves-pentagon-plan-to-pull-9500-us-troops-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump approves Pentagon plan to pull 9,500 US troops from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid growing congressional opposition, President Donald Trump approved Pentagon plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/06\/24\/1000-more-us-troops-to-poland-as-trump-and-duda-discuss-natos-eastern-flank\/\" target=_blank>redeploy<\/a> 9,500 U.S. troops from Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, who briefed Trump on Monday, said the plan would improve \u201cstrategic flexibility\u201d and benefit troops and their families, according to a statement released by the Pentagon Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/06\/19\/trump-troop-cut-in-germany-fits-a-pattern-of-hitting-allies\/\" target=_blank>The proposal that was approved<\/a> not only meets the president\u2019s directive, it will also enhance Russian deterrence, strengthen NATO, reassure allies, improve U.S. strategic flexibility and U.S. European Command\u2019s operational flexibility, and take care of our service members and their families,\u201d according to the statement by Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPentagon leaders look forward to briefing this plan to the congressional defense committees in the coming weeks, followed by consultations with NATO allies on the way forward. We will be providing timely updates to potentially affected personnel, their families and communities as planning progresses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pentagon officials told Military Times no further details would yet be released about when the troops might be redeployed or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/06\/24\/1000-more-us-troops-to-poland-as-trump-and-duda-discuss-natos-eastern-flank\/\" target=_blank>where they might go<\/a>. There are currently about 34,500 U.S. troops stationed in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s national security adviser, Robert O\u2019Brien, said in an op-ed published last week in The Wall Street Journal that, \u201cSeveral thousand troops currently assigned to Germany may be reassigned to other countries in Europe. Thousands may expect to redeploy to the Indo-Pacific, where the U.S. maintains a military presence in Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and Japan, as well as deployments in locations like Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, last week, the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher, told TVN24 in Poland that the U.S. will send another 1,000 troops to Poland \u2014 over and above the 1,000 declared last year. But she said they might not necessarily be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/08\/plans-to-pull-american-troops-from-germany-worries-us-lawmakers\/\">transferred from Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hours before the Pentagon statement was released, lawmakers said they were readying proposals to rebuke Trump\u2019s troop withdrawal plans amid dissatisfaction with the administration\u2019s rationale for the move and concerns it will weaken NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bipartisan group of senators led by Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney proposed an amendment to the Senate\u2019s version of the annual defense policy bill that would freeze troop numbers in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., said separately Tuesday that the plan seemed strategically unsound and that Congress should block the administration until it makes its case. Legislative action is likely in the House on Wednesday when Smith\u2019s panel marks up the HASC version of the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is possible that there is a scenario where repositioning troops out of Germany is in our national security interests. The president has not made that case to date, the [Department of Defense] has not made that case to date, and the president is doing it in a very haphazard manner,\u201d Smith told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to know what they\u2019re talking about, and it\u2019s appropriate for the moment to say: \u2018Yeah, hold up until we know where you\u2019re going and what you\u2019re doing on this.\u2019 We don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said during an Oval Office meeting last week with Polish leader Andrzej Duda that the U.S. plans to move some troops from Germany to Poland, and that some troops \u201cwill be coming home.\u201d He repeated accusations that Germany has been \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/b4ac0b046a6be385b583a816e98f2240\">delinquent<\/a> in their payments\u201d to the NATO security alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon said previously it was working options with U.S. European Command to meet Trump\u2019s directive. 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