The Polish government says the US Department of Defense has not taken any decision regarding a reduction in troop numbers in the NATO country.<\/p>\n
Poland\u2019s Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz wrote on X that he had learnt this during a conversation with his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US Secretary of Defense has confirmed that the US commitment to Poland\u2019s defence and security remains unchanged,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a Pentagon official, that the US Department of Defense had halted the deployment of a combat brigade of 4,000 soldiers to Europe.<\/p>\n
The decision was reportedly communicated at a meeting between the US European Command (EUCOM) and parts of the US Army. It had actually been expected that the soldiers would be stationed in Poland for a nine-month deployment.<\/p>\n
The government in Warsaw immediately denied that the country was affected by the deployment freeze. However, confusion and uncertainty prevailed.<\/p>\n
Following his conversation with Hegseth, Kosiniak-Kamysz wrote: “The decisions taken are in no way directed against our strategic partnership. The Pentagon is currently working on a new plan for the deployment of its troops across Europe.”<\/p>\n
Just under three weeks ago, Hegseth ordered the withdrawal of around 5,000 US troops from Germany. Poland subsequently reaffirmed its willingness to host more US troops.<\/p>\n
According to the Polish Ministry of Defence, there are almost 10,000 US troops stationed in Poland. Most of them rotate regularly between various US military bases in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Polish government says the US Department of Defense has not taken any decision regarding a reduction in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[36160,8936,182,46270,46271,181,10013],"class_list":["post-86470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-defence-minister","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-poland","tag-us-department-of-defense","tag-us-secretary-of-defense","tag-warsaw","tag-wladyslaw-kosiniak-kamysz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116602700245542619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}