“Europe is a priority theater for the United States Army,” U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville announced in a telephone conference call with reporters from Stuttgart, Germany yesterday, following three days of talks with European counterparts. They agreed that a “policy of strength” was the best way to deter adversaries like Russia, McConville said, reported Stars & Stripes. “Our allies are all taking a look at where they need to be in the future. Their priorities are really on command and control, making sure we can all work together,” McConville said.
Later this year, the Army will get two new units and an additional 500 soldiers in the Wiesbaden area with the arrival of a Multi-Domain Task Force and Theater Fires Command—units that provide additional long range artillery capability–both rocket and cannon-to the Army in Europe. “It’s a big expansion of capability,” said Gen. Christopher Cavoli, commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, who hosted the meeting of more than 30 European army chiefs at his Wiesbaden headquarters. “There’s been a very significant, very steady transformation of the capability we have over here,” Cavoli said.
