{"id":189941,"date":"2019-06-15T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189941"},"modified":"2019-06-17T05:57:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T05:57:25","slug":"us-to-send-1000-more-troops-to-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189941","title":{"rendered":"US to Send 1,000 More Troops to Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Tucker — Defence One June 11, 2019<\/h1>\n
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US Stryker armoured vehicles pass through Poland in Operation Dragon Ride, part of a drive by Western fighting vehicles close to Russia’s border in 2015. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The United States will add 1<\/strong>,000 troops to the 4,000 already deployed in Poland, a defense official said\u00a0Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking not for attribution\u00a0a day ahead of an anticipated formal announcement, the official said the added troops would have logistical, not combat,\u00a0duties.<\/span><\/p>\n

The announcement is expected when Polish President Andrzej Duda<\/a><\/strong><\/span> meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday in\u00a0Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a troop increase, but what is more important, new capabilities\/cohesion to US deployments. Most importantly, though, we are likely to progress from temporary\/provisional arrangements regarding the presence,\u201d a Polish official told Defense One <\/em>on\u00a0Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The announcement was telegraphed last week by Poland\u2019s minister of foreign\u00a0affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect some decisions to be announced concerning the increase of American presence in Poland. We can look at it from a quantitative perspective, more soldiers, but also a qualitative perspective, more equipment \u2026 more training,\u201d Jacek Czaputowicz said at the GLOBSEC defense forum in Bratislava,\u00a0Slovakia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The AP first reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the upcoming\u00a0announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. defense official said the addition of the non-combat troops would not violate the 1997 Founding Act<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and Russia, which prohibits the permanent basing of NATO troops in former Warsaw Pact\u00a0countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked whether\u00a0additional troops would violate the Founding Act,\u00a0a senior White House official on a background call with reporters on Tuesday said, \u201cTomorrow\u2019s announcement will be completely consistent with the commitments we\u2019ve made at\u00a0NATO.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Polish government has been pushing for a troop increase since last September, when Duda and Trump met in Washington, D.C. A formal proposal<\/strong><\/span><\/a> presented from Polish to U.S. officials sought a permanently deployed armored\u00a0division.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to invite you, Mr. President, to post more American troops to Poland. We believe that the presence of the United States is a guarantor of security in our part of Europe,\u201d Duda said then at a joint event with\u00a0Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The additional troops will join the 4,000 U.S. military personnel already deployed in Poland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":114581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189944,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941\/revisions\/189944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}