{"id":5568,"date":"2026-07-04T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/5568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:46:08","slug":"europe-replaced-most-of-the-us-cuts-in-nato-senior-commander-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/5568\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe replaced most of the US cuts in NATO: Senior commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US recently unveiled significant cuts to forces it would deploy to Europe in event of a war or major crisis<\/p>\n<p>European NATO allies have largely filled the capability gaps created by recent US reductions in its reinforcement plans for a potential conflict in Europe, the deputy supreme allied commander Europe told Bloomberg in a Friday interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEuropean allies have definitely stepped up in terms of backfilling the adjustment in the US forces in Europe,\u201d said John Stringer, adding this showed \u201ca stronger Europe in a stronger NATO\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US recently unveiled significant cuts to the forces it would deploy to Europe in the event of a war or major crisis, leading NATO\u2019s military leadership to ask European members to identify additional forces they could contribute to the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Stringer, a former Royal Air Force fighter pilot, said that where European countries could not provide equivalent capabilities, they would seek to achieve the same operational effect through alternative assets.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2616334\/nato-leaders-to-gather-in-ankara-aiming-to-smooth-over-tensions-with-trump\" target=\"_blank\">NATO leaders to gather in Ankara, aiming to smooth over tensions with Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burden-sharing and burden-shifting \u201cis now being done in a sensible, proportionate way, absolutely driven by military logic,\u201d he said, emphasizing the readiness of European allies to adapt to changing US priorities and commitments.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the need to rebalance responsibilities has been evident for years and that European allies have steadily increased their contributions.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed criticism of European NATO allies for, in his view, failing to share the alliance\u2019s burden and spending too little on defense.<\/p>\n<p>On his Truth Social platform, Trump called it \u201cridiculous\u201d for the US to continue what he described as a \u201cone-sided\u201d relationship in which Washington shoulders a disproportionate share of the defense burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US recently unveiled significant cuts to forces it would deploy to Europe in event of a war or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[537,538],"class_list":["post-5568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-latest","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568","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=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}