{"id":17026,"date":"2026-05-20T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/17026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:32:11","slug":"germany-still-lacks-clarity-on-us-troop-cuts-pistorius-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/17026\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany still lacks clarity on US troop cuts, Pistorius says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday that Berlin had not yet received any binding plans from the Trump administration regarding a withdrawal of US troops from Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is &#8220;still no truly reliable confirmation of this,\u201d the minister said after a meeting of the parliamentary defence committee in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What Germany had heard, he said, was that the number of US brigades stationed in Europe could be reduced by one formation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;To what extent troops stationed in Germany will be affected by this remains to be seen,&#8221; Pistorius added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A day earlier, US general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexus Grynkewich confirmed that the United States would for the time being not deploy long-range intermediate weapons in Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The previously planned deployment of a so-called Long Range Fires Battalion would not go ahead, said Grynkewich, who also commands US forces in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Grynkewich also said that the withdrawal of around 5,000 US troops from Europe announced by President Donald Trump would largely involve the return of a Brigade Combat Team to the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Asked about possible further adjustments to US troop levels in Europe, Grynkewich said he did not expect additional announcements in the short term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the US Defense Manpower Data Center, Germany hosts more than 37,000 active duty US troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday that Berlin had not yet received any binding plans from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9441,5,6483,2457,8675,20896],"class_list":["post-17026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-alexus-grynkewich","tag-germany","tag-pistorius","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-ramstein-air-base","tag-us-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}