11-11-2026 22:04 via Defense One - All Content

Keep US troops in NATO’s KFOR

As the Pentagon finalizes its review of U.S. force posture in Europe, one relatively small commitment deserves protection from the budget axe: the roughly 600 American troops serving in NATO’s Kosovo Force. They barely register in a debate about brigades and billion-dollar line items, but they keep a hard-won peace in the Balkans, and pulling them out would save almost nothing while handing Moscow a cheap strategic win.KFOR was deployed in June 1999 under NATO command, after the alliance bombe
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