U.S. official “Reducing US troops stationed in Germany to Asia-Pacific region including Japan” June 23, 10:32
Trump administration officials could place thousands of troops in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, as U.S. President Trump's intention to drastically reduce U.S. troops stationed in Germany It was revealed that there is a nature.
President Trump said on the 15th this month that he was strongly dissatisfied with Germany's lack of defense spending and announced his intention to significantly reduce the number of US troops stationed in Germany.
On this issue, the White House's Assistant to President O'Brien, who was in charge of national security issues, contributed to the leading paper, The Wall Street Journal, on the 22nd.
Among them, Assistant Secretary O'Brien said he would reduce the number of US troops stationed in Germany from 34,500 to 25,000, and he said about the reason: "A large number of troops are stationed at a large base like Germany. Cold War practices are obsolete."
Then, with China in mind, ``the United States and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region have faced the most important geopolitical challenges since the end of the Cold War,'' and among the troops to be reduced, thousands of them have been sent to Japan and Hawaii. It has been clarified that it may be placed in Guam etc.
Assistant O'Brien has again expressed strong dissatisfaction with the German defense spending, and it seems that there is a goal to reduce the burden on the United States for the presidential election in November, but in the US parliament it is also from the ruling party and the Republican Party. There are voices concerned about the impact on European security.