{"id":7499,"date":"2026-05-19T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/7499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:27:10","slug":"polish-officials-vent-worries-over-scrapped-us-troop-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/7499\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish officials vent worries over scrapped US troop deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARSAW, Poland \u2014 Polish government leaders are concerned over the Pentagon\u2019s abrupt cancellation<\/a> of a deployment of more than 4,000 soldiers to NATO\u2019s eastern flank, citing Warsaw\u2019s status as a multibillion-dollar U.S. weapons client in their appeal to retain American soldiers.<\/p>\n

On May 18, Poland\u2019s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the country\u2019s deputy prime minister and national defense minister, attended a ceremony in eastern Poland related to the launch of a new engine servicing hub for the Polish fleet of Abrams tanks<\/a>. The event, designed to highlight existing trans-Atlantic defense ties, was overshadowed by Washington\u2019s recent order<\/a> to halt a planned nine-month U.S. Army rotation to Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States military that is stationed in Poland, stationed in Europe, gives security guarantees,\u201d Kosiniak-Kamysz said at the event. \u201cOn the other hand, we have not only a [U.S.] military presence, but also great, strategic purchases in the United States. And it is difficult to find in the world, not only in Europe, a second country that has invested so heavily in purchases of the best American gear for its own needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kosiniak-Kamysz referred to Poland\u2019s numerous U.S. weapon purchases from the past years which, in addition to tanks, comprise procurements of fighter jets<\/a>, helicopters<\/a>, missiles<\/a> and rocket launchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than fifty billion dollars is the sum of the purchases that we are implementing in the United States,\u201d the minister said. \u201cThis is all a great investment in the Polish-American alliance\u201d.<\/p>\n

Polish officials say that, if the U.S. military presence is to be decreased in Europe, they expect the cuts not to concern the troops who are already deployed to Poland.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that there is a reorganization of the American military presence in Europe. But this reorganization cannot be made at the cost of the biggest ally of the United States in Europe,\u201d Kosiniak-Kamysz said. \u201cWe invest around 15,000 dollars every year for the deployment of each [U.S. soldier], which distinguishes us from other European countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around 10,000 U.S. soldiers are currently stationed in Poland, the majority of which have been deployed to the country as part of a rotational presence.<\/p>\n

Jaroslaw Adamowski is the Poland correspondent for Defense News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, Poland \u2014 Polish government leaders are concerned over the Pentagon\u2019s abrupt cancellation of a deployment of more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[813,436,812,437,430,64,74,6439,9,5121],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-circulated-army-times","tag-circulated-defense-news","tag-circulated-military-times","tag-defense-news","tag-dn-dnr","tag-donald-tusk","tag-europe","tag-european-command","tag-poland","tag-us-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}