{"id":648,"date":"2026-05-16T23:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2026-05-16T23:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:49:53","slug":"us-cancels-troop-deployment-to-poland-amid-tensions-with-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"US cancels troop deployment to Poland amid tensions with allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The acting US Army chief of staff said commanders were instructed to reduce troop levels in Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1382\"><strong data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1318\"><\/strong><strong data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1659\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1857\" data-end=\"2013\">The Pentagon has canceled plans to deploy 4,000 troops to Poland amid growing tensions between President Donald Trump and US allies over policy toward Iran.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2015\" data-end=\"2312\">The Associated Press reported on Friday that some soldiers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division\u00a0\u2013 along with Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles\u00a0\u2013 had already arrived in Poland or were en route when the Pentagon informed them that the deployment had been canceled.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2314\" data-end=\"2558\">General Christopher LaNeve, the acting Army chief of staff, told Congress that the head of US European Command <em>\u201creceived instructions on the force reduction.\u201d<\/em> He added that <em>\u201cit made the most sense for that brigade not to deploy to the theater.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.05\/thumbnail\/69f8a6b185f540711b0c69f3.jpg\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during an executive order signing event in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC.\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/639428-trump-ditched-plan-tomahawks-germany\/\">Trump ditched plan to send Tomahawks to Germany \u2013 Merz<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"2560\" data-end=\"2869\">Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk appeared to downplay the move, saying he had <em>\u201creceived assurances &#8230; that these decisions are logistical in nature.\u201d<\/em> Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said the pullback was linked to a <em>\u201cpreviously announced change in the presence of some US Armed Forces in Europe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2871\" data-end=\"2956\">More than 10,000 US military personnel are stationed in Poland on a rotational basis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2958\" data-end=\"3210\">Although Trump has frequently accused NATO members of failing to spend enough on defense, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently described Poland as a <em>\u201cmodel ally\u201d<\/em> after it spent about 4.7% of GDP on defense last year\u00a0\u2013 more than other NATO members.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3212\" data-end=\"3540\">Earlier in May, the Pentagon announced the withdrawal of 5,000 troops from the roughly 38,000 US service members stationed in Germany. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been among the European leaders critical of US and Israeli policy toward Iran. Trump, in turn, urged the chancellor to focus on <em>\u201cfixing his broken country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3542\" data-end=\"3714\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Trump has also suggested he could withdraw troops from Spain and Italy after the two countries reportedly denied the use of bases and airfields for strikes related to Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acting US Army chief of staff said commanders were instructed to reduce troop levels&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}