{"id":1145,"date":"2026-06-08T15:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/1145\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:14:44","slug":"us-to-pull-jets-destroyers-and-submarines-from-nato-as-part-of-european-drawdown-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/1145\/","title":{"rendered":"US to pull jets, destroyers and submarines from NATO as part of European drawdown \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump has dismayed European allies by announcing he would pull 5,000 troops out of Germany<\/a>, which later turned out to include 4,000 soldiers from Poland<\/a> \u2014 before U-turning and saying he would deploy an additional 5,000 troops<\/a> to Poland.<\/p>\n

The exact nature of the cutbacks is not yet finalized, the diplomats said, and the U.S. did not attach any timelines to the reductions. Washington also reassured allies there would be no changes to its nuclear deterrence, they added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The meeting did \u201cnot [give] exhaustive details \u2026 but it is much clearer now,\u201d said a third NATO diplomat, also granted anonymity to speak freely. \u201cIt will depend on the capacity of the others to come in with alternatives \u2026 some are not touched, others go completely, others can go to one-half or one-third.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe timeline is more complicated because it is linked with the credibility of deterrence and defense,\u201d they said. \u201cThat said, everything is not yet definitely decided, even in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

European allies and the U.S. are likely to discuss the issue further at NATO\u2019s Force Generation conference next month, the two diplomats said. That is a meeting where national military planners define the capabilities they can offer the alliance, and under what conditions.<\/p>\n

Under NATO’s Force Model system<\/a>, alliance members periodically identify the soldiers and equipment they will commit to NATO operations \u2014 making them available to the alliance\u2019s top commander in the event of a war. The specifics are a closely-guarded secret, but Washington now wants to scale back those commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump has dismayed European allies by announcing he would pull 5,000 troops out of Germany, which later turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[902,60,57,13,32,286,66,203,197,903,208,901,49,130,464,222,465],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-americas","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-germany","tag-marco-rubio","tag-military","tag-pentagon","tag-poland","tag-regions-cohesion","tag-submarines","tag-tanks","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-war-in-iran","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}