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U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participate in a joint press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 26, 2020. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is at NATO to follow-up on a broad range of issues raised during last week's NATO defense ministerial. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

Pentagon chief seeks to reassure NATO over US troop plans

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, photo US soldiers take part in NATO-led Noble Partner 2017 multinational military exercises at the military base of Vaziani, outside Tbilisi, Georgia. After more than a year of thinly veiled threats that the United States could start pulling troops out of Germany unless the country increases its defense spending to NATO standards, President Donald Trump appears to be going ahead with the hardball approach with a plan to reduce the American military presence in the country by more than 25 percent. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov) **FILE**

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer: U.S. troop reductions in Europe should be coordinated with NATO

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is joined at left by Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Republicans urge Donald Trump to reconsider Germany troop reduction plan

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Illustration on NATO by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The United States isn’t weakening NATO — deadbeat European nations must build their own defenses

By Jed Babbin

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, back row center, speaks during a video conference of NATO Defense Minister at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. NATO Defense Ministers begin two days of video talks focused on deterring Russian aggression and a US decision to withdraw thousands of troops from Germany. (Francois Lenoir, Pool Photo via AP)

NATO to probe France-Turkey Med naval incident

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a video conference of NATO Defense Minister at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. (Francois Lenoir, Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

NATO chief says US to consult allies on future troop plans

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, file photo, U.S President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend ceremonies at the Arc de Triumphe in Paris. After more than a year of thinly veiled threats that the United States could start pulling troops out of Germany unless the country increases its defense spending to NATO standards, President Donald Trump appears to be going ahead with the hardball approach with a plan to reduce the American military presence in the country by more than 25 percent. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File)

NATO chief plays down concern over U.S. troop plans in Germany

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump, center right, and first lady Melania Trump, center left, greet members of the military at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. After more than a year of thinly veiled threats that the United States could start pulling troops out of Germany unless the country increases its defense spending to NATO standards, President Donald Trump appears to be going ahead with the hardball approach with a plan to reduce the American military presence in the country by more than 25 percent. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

Yankee go home: What does moving troops out of Germany mean?

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Russia, NATO conduct parallel wargames over Baltic Sea

Associated Press

Illustration on NATO by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times

The U.S. troop reduction in Germany is not about NATO

By Stephen Bryen and Shoshana Bryen

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump, center right, and first lady Melania Trump, center left, greet members of the military at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Germany's defense minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is warning that U.S. President Donald Trump's reported plans to withdraw more than a quarter of the American troops out of Germany could weaken not only the NATO alliance but the U.S. itself. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Germany has not yet received confirmation of U.S. troop withdrawal from country

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks on the second day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) **FILE**

Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary-general: COVID-19 pandemic has ‘magnified’ global tensions

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of a televised interview at the hauptstadtstudio (Capital city studio) of public broadcaster ARD in Berlin, Thursday June 4, 2020. (John MacDougall/Pool via AP)

Allies scramble for details of U.S. troop reduction in Germany

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

NATO chief urges allies not to go it alone

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 8, 2020. Russia says it will partially reopen the country's borders as the country eases coronavirus restrictions. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Secretary-General: NATO to push for arms control with Russia despite crumbling treaties

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Cindy McCain, wife of late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., with Secretary of Defense James Mattis, left, and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, depart after laying a ceremonial wreath honoring all whose lives were lost during the Vietnam War at at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. (Mary F. Calvert/Pool photo via AP)

James Mattis, John Kelly attacks on Trump drag military into partisan politics

By Mike Glenn and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken from undated footage distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, an intercontinental ballistic missile lifts off from a truck-mounted launcher somewhere in Russia. The Russian military said the Avangard hypersonic weapon entered combat duty. Little on the Pentagon’s drawing board illustrates more clearly the Trump administration’s worry about China and Russia than its work on hypersonic weapons. These missiles and aerial vehicles fly at speeds of a mile a second or faster and maneuver in ways that make them extra difficult to detect and destroy in flight. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian general chafes at “provocative” NATO drills

By BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Transitioning NATO into a European-led force illustration by The Washington Times

Transitioning NATO into a European-led force

By Daniel L. Davis

In this Monday, March 9, 2020, photo released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft, top right, is intercepted near the Alaska coastline. U.S. and Canadian aircraft intercepted and escorted two Russian jets that flew over the Beaufort Sea near the Alaska coastline, military officials said Tuesday. The Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft were escorted by F-22 and CF-18 planes, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a release. The Russian jets never left international airspace during the duration of the four-hour flight on Monday, but did come within 50 miles of the Alaska coast. (North American Aerospace Defense Command via AP) ** FILE **

NATO allies seeking Russia’s return to compliance of Open Skies Treaty

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Illustration on President Trump's effect on global direction by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump’s foreign policy course correction may rescue today’s globalized world

By Henry R. Nau