📰 **Trump vows to reduce U.S. troops in Germany ‘a lot further’ than 5,000 as defense official says armed services were blindsided by move**

A U.S. defense official said the branches of the U.S. military didn’t have prior knowledge of the decision to draw down the 5,000 troops and learned about it “in real time.”

🔗 https://fortune.com/2026/05/02/trump-us-troops-germany-a-lot-further-5000-nato-europe-force-posture/

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