US Army planning biggest deployment of troops to Europe in 25 years

United States Army is reportedly planning its biggest deployment of troops to Europe in 25 years. According to international media, 20,000 troops have been slated to take part in a massive force projection exercise. commander of US ground forces, General Christopher Cavoli reportedly said that soldiers will be deployed next year to Europe where y will be joining some 9,000 or US soldiers already stationed re. 

According to reports, approximately 37,000 troops will furr take part in exercises across 10 European countries from May to June. Cavoli said that aim of deploying soldiers to Europe is to demonstrate US military's ability to quickly deploy a large force to support NATO and respond to any crisis. He furr added that military's ability as an army to project power is absolutely fundamental to anything that y would get done. US military will begin flowing in February with 13,000 pieces of equipment, including tanks, artillery and transport vehicles. 

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Russia-US relations

massive force projection exercise comes at a time of increasingly adversarial relations with Russia. While talking to an international media outlet, Cavoli did t single out Russia as focus, however, he said that its annexation of Crimea in 2014 changed everything. On or hand, Russia is planning to arm its rrn Fleet's Arctic division with S-400 air defence system. A Russian naval commander on Monday said that Russia will create an air defence "dome" across its polar region to prevent an enemy aerial attack of any kind. Senior Russian military personnel said that country is planning to deploy similar missile systems at all of ir Arctic divisions to create an effective air defence dome in Russian part of region.

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Russia's recent move is being closely watched by Washington as United States is also a member of Arctic Council. In July this year, US State Secretary Mike Pompeo ackwledged Russia's expanding military presence in Arctic and expressed concern over aggressive Russian behaviour in region. Similarly, in April this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin also complained about NATO's largest military exercise in Arctic and said that Russia's aviation activity in Baltic Sea Zone was of lower magnitude than activity of NATO.

(With ncy inputs)

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