Pompeo Signs Defense Agreement to Add 1,000 Troops to Poland
- Deal follows U.S. decision to pull 12,000 troops from Germany
- Poland may host forward elements of headquarters, intelligence
Mike Pompeo and Mariusz Blaszczak after they sign the US-Poland Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement in the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, on Aug. 15.
Photographer: Janek Skarrzynski/AFP via Getty Images
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Poland and the U.S. signed an expanded defense cooperation agreement that will result in 1,000 additional U.S. personnel being sent to the Eastern European country on a rotational basis.
The deal, agreed earlier this month, and signed Saturday in Warsaw by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, follows the U.S.’s decision to withdraw about 12,000 troops from Germany and plans to redeploy almost half of that number to other nations in Europe.