The evening of 29 July, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the announcement made by US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper earlier that day that 11,900 of the 34,500 military personnel currently in Germany would be withdrawn from the country.
Around 2,000 soldiers are going to be repositioned in Italy and Belgium, and 3,600 are expected to be sent to other NATO countries, notably (but subject to agreement) Poland and the Baltic States. The US military command in Europe...