Daniel Fried Warns US Troop Withdrawal From Europe Would Be Strategically Dangerous

Daniel Fried Warns US Troop Withdrawal From Europe Would Be Strategically Dangerous

Daniel Fried says Europe is already increasing defense spending, and Washington should secure that progress instead of weakening deterrence.

Troop cuts in Europe: Giving away something for nothing

Although some of the recently announced changes to U.S. troops levels in Europe have been signaled for a year or more, they have nonetheless unnerved America’s allies and potentially emboldened Moscow. American troops have been in Europe for decades not merely to underwrite NATO treaty commitments but more specifically to safeguard the country’s most important trading and investment relationship in the world.Cutting U.S. troops in Europe places …