With service members permanently stationed in Europe, those on rotational assignments and recent additional deployments, the U.S. now has more than 100,000 troops in Europe, the most since 2005, as Stars and Stripes noted.
“In the face of Russian aggression, the United States has recently deployed additional forces and now has approximately 100,000 U.S. service members in Europe,” European Command said in a statement Tuesday.
U.S. forces are primarily reassuring and training NATO allies. The Pentagon and White House continue to say that no U.S. service members will be sent into Ukraine not directly engage with Russian forces.
The approach may be the oft-talked about but rarely defined “hybrid warfare,” as NPR reported in an explainer.
Army photo by Agustin Montanez