U.S. Troop Deployments to Poland Shine Light on New Cold War Strategy
On August 15, 2020, the Trump administration announced that it was sending 1,000 troops to Poland as part of the new defense cooperation agreement signed on the anniversary of the victory of Poland in the Polish-Soviet war of 1920.
The new troops added to the 4,500 that were previously deployed by President Barack Obama following the 2014 Western-backed coups d’état in Ukraine and the Russian takeover of Crimea.
As part of the defense cooperation agreement, Poland agreed to host forward elements of the U.S. Army’s V Corps headquarters, which the Polish foreign minister called “the most important U.S. command center on NATO’s eastern flank.”[1]
Recent events follow on the strategic shift of U.S. administrations moving the core of NATO from Paris and Bonn—what Donald Rumsfeld famously termed “old Europe”—to the East, as part of an aggressive drive to control former parts of the Soviet Union and Central Asia.
The Obama and Trump administrations have been pouring weapons into Eastern Europe, backed by a coordinated program of military training and military exercises, in an attempt to resurrect the Intermarium—a geopolitical concept originating in the post-World War I era that envisages an alliance of countries reaching from the Baltic Sea over the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea that would serve as an alternative power bloc between Germany and Russia.[2]
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