Redeployment and Rotation of U.S. Army Units in Europe

: The U.S. Army plans to reduce warfighting capability forward deployed in Europe. This reduction of forces comes following ten years of war, prolonged U.S. economic recession, and a pivot towards the Asian Pacific region. The Army will redeploy two brigade combat teams (BCT), begin operational deployments of a combat battalion, and regionally align CONUS units to Europe. Europe may be confronted by traditional threats and emerging threats of failing states in the region. The new military posture in Europe will confront these threats by focusing on building partnership capacity with European and Coalition partners through security cooperation and theater engagement activities to prevent conflict and shape the environment. The U.S. partners and allies must equally contribute forces to the security in the region. The Joint Multinational Training Command (JMTC) in Germany will be the centerpiece for U.S. Army bilateral and multilateral training, Coalition partner integration and interoperability training, and force projection. The new military posture will continue to assure U.S. allies of our commitment and demonstrate to potential regional adversaries the U.S. military readiness, flexibility, agility, and reach.