Top U.S. Military Officer Advocates Permanent Bases in Eastern Europe

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the House Armed Services Committee in testimony today, that the U.S. should be looking at the development of more and permanent bases in Eastern Europe but that additional U.S. troops should be rotational. “My advice would be to create permanent bases but don’t permanently station [forces], so you get the effect of permanence by rotational forces cycling through permanent bases,” he said, reported by The Associated Press. “I believe that a lot of our European allies, especially those such as the Baltics or Poland and Romania, and elsewhere – they’re very, very willing to establish permanent bases. They’ll build them, they’ll pay for them.”