According to figures published in wikipedia in 2021, the U.S. Army has 26,800 troops in Europe. These include two combat brigades based in Germany and an airborne brigade based in northern Italy. These units contribute on average two battalions at a time to the forward NATO presence in Poland and the three Baltic countries. In addition, an armored brigade and an aviation brigade are maintained in Poland on a rotational basis as is a forward element of the Fort Knox-based U.S. Army V Corps headquarters in Poznan. In addition, the U.S. maintains a U.S. Air Force detachment at the Lask air base in central Poland and a U.S. Navy detachment to run the Aegis Ashore BMD installation in Redzikowo. The U.S. also leads the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) battalion in Orzysz, Poland, with about 900 troops. The total number of U.S. troops in Poland on a rotational basis is reported to be about 4,500. The rotational troops also participate in exercises and other operations in the Baltic states and in the Balkans as well.
On Jan. 24 Reuters published a round-up of NATO troop deployments that reports the following:
4,000 troops in the four Enhanced Forward Presence battalions in the three Baltic countries and Poland (American troops in total make up about 1,000 of those troops). The UK leads the EFP battalion in Estonia with 900 troops and has another 150 in Poland under U.S. command.
NATO air-policing mission in the Baltics, which at last count had 14 fighter jets that rotate-in every 4 months (I think—CJO) to air bases in Lithuania and Latvia from different countries. There’s also an air-policing mission based in Romania, but I don’t know how many fighters NATO deploys for that one.
NATO multinational land force of up to 4,000 troops in Romania.
