The U.S. army will reduce the presence abroad
The US army will reduce the number of its foreign missions, the newspaper Military Times.
As explained by the Minister of the us army mark Esper, the current cycle of deployment of military units abroad reduces the combat capability and amplifies the burden on the military. “We have armored battle group in Kuwait. We can abandon the mission and bring her home to increase the combat readiness of the military and include them in the queue to perform more important operations,” the Minister explained.
The Pentagon said that the military is not involved in transactions over 12 months, will be sent home. The newspaper reminds that the army has requested additional 4 thousand soldiers in the 2019 financial year and a similar number of military in 2020-2021 years. In total the number of land forces, therefore, will reach 495,5 thousand. Currently, the US army has 483,5 thousand.
We will remind, according to the draft budget of the United States, funding of the Pentagon will increase in the next two years by $165 billion This step in the White house, the United States explained that the U.S. Department of defense needs to be “prepared, more numerous and more lethal army.”