forces in the country by a third would send “a terrible signal” to Russia, which still occupies parts of Georgia and Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, and continues its aggressive behavior on the eastern edge of Europe. The following day, he told NBC News in Frankfurt that Germany was America’s “most important ally.” He said the “political decision” to reduce U.S. Army forces in Europe between 20, appeared via video conference to say that the Pentagon’s plan to withdraw more than 12,000 soldiers and airmen from Germany was “a mistake.” Edward Kiernan / NBC newsĪt a September hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, retired Lt. Army for decades, and hosts military exercises involving dozens of American allies each year. The 40,000 acre Hohenfels training area in southern Germany has been controlled by the U.S. forces in Germany may be one of the most significant foreign policy decisions to hinge on November’s presidential election. And officials on both sides of the Atlantic said the future role and scope of U.S. “Whether that's info war, whether that's mercenary groups, whether that's bombings - anything we can do to replicate what is actually happening in the world right now, especially here in Germany,” he said.įormer Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign said he would cancel the planned troop withdrawal if elected. Likes, 29, said the object was to recreate the threats American and allied forces could face, in the most up-to-date way possible. The landscape in southern Germany roughly matches the rolling, lightly forested hills of eastern Ukraine, where most of the 200 Ukrainian soldiers attending the exercise had previously fought against Russian-backed separatists as recently as June.
Army's 1-4 Infantry Regiment, based in Hohenfels, Germany, participates in a training exercise where his soldiers are pretending to be Russian-backed mercenaries. military has invested hundreds of millions of dollars over several decades on the sprawling facilities here - one of the many reasons that multiple retired military commanders, former national security advisers and lawmakers from both parties have questioned the Trump administration’s plan to move 12,000 troops out of Germany. Army officers told NBC News that this 40,000-acre terrain in southern Germany is the only possible location at present to hold such extended international training, with soldiers from countries such as Ukraine, Slovenia, Romania and Italy participating. The multinational exercise, involving 4,100 troops over 10 days, was concocted to rehearse the “peer-to-peer” warfare that American commanders and their allies expect to face - in the event of a conflict with a country like Russia, whose military capabilities match those of the United States.
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