This report examines US military activities in Europe, and particularly Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), that have taken place since Russia’s intervention in Ukraine in 2014 and the subsequent breakdown of relations between Moscow and the West. More specifically, the author examines 1) US deployments to the CEE following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014; 2) how the US furthered its military involvement in the CEE following the introduction of the European Reassurance Initiative in June 2014; 3) US actions that formed part of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan, approved in September 2014; and 4) the impact of US reassurance measures …read more
US Military Presence in Central and Eastern Europe
