Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Jim Inhofe (R-OK) was briefed on the US troop cuts in Germany, which the administration has announced a few times in recent weeks. He sought to downplay this, saying there was no “hasty” pullout.
Sen. Inhofe was told that the drawdown will take “months to plan, years to execute,” suggesting the announcement was not made with an eye toward actual cuts any time soon.
The Pentagon is likely pushing this because the 2021 NDAA is potentially going to have restrictions on troop cuts. President Trump is known to want these cuts, but others are emphasizing that they want to block this to reassure NATO.
If this isn’t going to involve cuts for “years,” party leaders may feel that the path of least resistance is to just ignore it for now, on the assumption that the administration will either forget or be gone by then, and it’ll never happen.
A ‘hasty’ pullout over seventy years in the making.
So if moving 9500 troops will take “months to plan, years to execute” imagine how long it would have taken to move the military assets that were needed to carry out our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We might actually be ready for the ’91 invasion of Iraq right about now.
This once again shows just what a sham the USA has become. Maybe the real reason the GHOULS are afraid is if these troops come home they may join antifa and blm. Trump should order them out in 45 days,,see if the Pentagon gives him the finger,,then we can all riot.
The plan must be too have the troops March by foot too Poland or wherever, via Iran and China, as a slow motion gangster ‘walk-by’. They will fire no shots but all will be parading with one hand holding up their new issue baggy long shorts and the other holding their service pistols cocked at 90 degrees. The mission should take 2 years at this specialized physop pace, but the Pentagon is leaving themselves the option of diverting the March toward any recalcitrant European Nations.
If Germany subsidises the US Occupation, they will NEVER leave.
This reads like the definition of an occupation.
The Germans will have to provide a loud clamor to give withdrawal a significant impetus.
One thing that must be realized – overseas base are necessary for troop morale – if the only bases to be stationed at are places like Ft. Hood or Ft. Benning, who in the hell would want to get stationed there? Why re-up only to circulate between hot, rural – basically trailer parks. Certainly not, young urban troops. The Army would be better off closing Ft. Gordon than some base in Germany.
If Germany agrees and they are being compensated who cares.
Taxpayers.