{"id":9074,"date":"2026-07-28T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/9074\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:30:11","slug":"the-pentagon-has-begun-a-review-of-the-u-s-military-presence-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/9074\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon has begun a review of the U.S. military presence in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Photo. United States Department of Defense\/picryl.com\/Domena publiczna<\/p>\n

The review of the US military presence in Europe has begun \u2013 announced the Under Secretary of Defence for Policy at the Pentagon, Elbridge Colby.<\/p>\n

On 18 June, during a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth announced a six-month review of the American presence in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo ensure the success of the NATO 3.0 project, I am today announcing a six-month review by the Department of War. (\u2026) This review will be conducted with input from the United States Armed Forces, including European Command. It will involve consultations with the US Congress and our allies,\u201d said US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth in Brussels in June.<\/p>\n

Less than a month and a half later, the Pentagon \u2013 in the person of Colby \u2013 announced the formal commencement of this process. The primary objective of the review, as indicated by the co-author of the US National Defence Strategy and National Security Strategy, is to ensure that NATO accelerates work on European states assuming primary responsibility for their own conventional defence. In a post on the X platform, Colby also pointed out that the review is being carried out to ensure that the engagement of nations within the North Atlantic Alliance is more balanced.<\/p>\n

Colby once again mentioned the need to implement the NATO 3.0 concept, which is a modernised version of what the North Atlantic Alliance was during the Cold War. The tweet also contained information that the recently launched presence review is intended to ensure that US troops better align with the objectives of the National Security Strategy and the National Defence Strategy.<\/p>\n

Today, the Department of War kicked off the Europe Posture Review Secretary Hegseth announced at the last NATO Defense Ministerial Meeting in Brussels. As the Secretary laid out then, this will be a real review, designed to ensure that NATO is moving fast and irreversibly toward\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby (@USWPColby) July 28, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n

At the end of Colby\u2019s posts, there is a further announcement. \u201cI look forward to working closely with General Alexus Grynkewich, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, on this key undertaking. We also look forward to further extensive consultations on this important initiative with our allies in Europe, Congress, and other parts of the US government,\u201d the Pentagon representative concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo. United States Department of Defense\/picryl.com\/Domena publiczna The review of the US military presence in Europe has begun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[492,5213,7,1761,203],"class_list":["post-9074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-elbridge-colby","tag-national-security-strategy","tag-nato","tag-nato-3-0","tag-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074","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=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}