May 17, 2026
What’s Behind the Pentagon Scrapping the Deployment of 4,000 U.S. Troops to Poland?
They were ready to go — until the order came to stand down. More than 4,000 U.S. troops won’t deploy to Poland as planned. Former Pentagon official and Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Security Program and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Jim Townsend, joins DW to unpack whether this is just logistics, or a deeper shift in U.S. strategy toward Europe.
Watch the full interview on Deutsche Welle.
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