In 2023, the number of US military personnel based in European NATO member states will decrease from 90,000 to 80,000. These statistics were provided by US President Joe Biden in a letter to the heads of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Source. It is reported by moscowtimes.eu
The U.S. military is in Europe "to reassure our allies and deter further Russian aggression," Biden said in the letter.
The United States has also reduced its contingent in Saudi Arabia from 2,755 to 2,088. In Niger, the US contingent has decreased from 1001 to 648 troops. In July, a group of soldiers from the presidential guard mutinied in this African country and removed President Mohammed Bazoum from power.
In the summer, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the alliance would increase the number of troops in Eastern European countries from battalion to brigade level and change defense patterns.
One NATO battalion usually has 300 to 1,000 troops, and one brigade has 3,000 or more. For the first time since the Cold War, the alliance will deploy equipment and forces previously assigned to protect specific allies.
As of November, there were about 40,000 NATO troops on NATO's eastern borders. The bloc has created four new units: in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. Similar structures already exist in the Baltic states and Poland.