U.S. To Slow Down The Pace Of Military Withdrawal From Europe

Photo: Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN (U.S. European Command)

U.S. To Keep Troops Longer In Europe -- Wall Street Journal

BRUSSELS—The Obama administration has scaled down plans begun under President George W. Bush to bring home two army brigades from Europe, saying it intends only to remove one brigade, and will delay its withdrawal until 2015, a senior U.S. official said Friday.

The decision will leave some 80,000 U.S. troops in Europe from 2015, the year after U.S. troops are scheduled to end their combat mission in Afghanistan. That is the highest number of U.S. troops on European soil since the start of the Iraq war in 2003, said the senior official. That's because many of those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have been stationed in Europe.

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