{"id":30600,"date":"2026-07-28T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/30600\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:13:09","slug":"us-begins-review-of-force-presence-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/30600\/","title":{"rendered":"US Begins Review of Force Presence in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/dronefront.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785229989_93_WhatsAppVideo2026-05-15at09.23.58.gif\" alt=\"The Drone Front\" width=\"1280\" height=\"539\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US began reviewing its military presence in Europe on Monday, officials said, after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told his NATO counterparts last month that Washington was planning such an analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the Secretary (Hegseth) laid out then, this will be a real review, designed to ensure that NATO is moving fast and irreversibly toward Europe taking primary responsibility for its conventional defense,\u201d US Defense Under Secretary Elbridge Colby wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe outcome of this Review will be an acceleration of NATO\u2019s transition to a stronger, more equitable, and sustainable alliance,\u201d Colby added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump has repeatedly lashed out against European allies over their response to his war in Iran, including the refusal to allow US forces to use their bases during the start of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hegseth has also threatened to reduce Washington\u2019s NATO spending unless allies reached defense spending targets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington has been clear with Europe that it wants NATO allies on the continent to take over primary responsibility for their own conventional defense as US focus shifts towards China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of that process the Pentagon has already told allies it is reducing the number of assets worldwide that it makes available for NATO operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The US began reviewing its military presence in Europe on Monday, officials said, after US Defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,69,451,87],"class_list":["post-30600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-europe","tag-nato","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116996840044873415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}