![]() The Pentagon's proposed budget for next year includes $3.4 billion for operations in Europe, which is four times the size of this year's investment. "They will see a more frequent presence of an armored brigade with more modernized equipment in their countries." "Our allies and partners will see more capability," he added. "This army implementation plan continues to demonstrate our strong and balanced approach to reassuring our NATO allies and partners in the wake of an aggressive Russia in Eastern Europe and elsewhere," Breedlove, the top U.S. The troops will also bring their own equipment, as opposed to training with the vehicles available on the ground. service personnel split across the six countries and arrive regularly every year. would sporadically send 4,200 troops on tours across the region to train with the national militaries, the plan will now see U.S. The initiative forms a more assured plan to increase defenses in NATO's six easternmost states: former Eastern Bloc countries Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, and former Soviet republics Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The deployment of the new armored brigade comprising of an additional 4,200 troops and over 200 tanks will be rotational, as is the rest of NATO's presence in the former Eastern Bloc, and will begin work in February 2017. ![]() NATO will shore up Eastern European defenses in the face of an "aggressive Russia" with thousands of troops and tanks, U.S. ![]()
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