US to Have Permanent Troop Presence in Poland as Defense Pact Agreed

US to Have Permanent Troop Presence in Poland as Defense Pact Agreed
U.S. soldiers speak with a woman in the Wesola district of Polands capital Warsaw on March 29, 2017. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images
Reuters
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WARSAW—The United States will establish a permanent military presence in Poland as it deploys around 1,000 additional U.S. troops there, Poland’s Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Poland is setting growing store by its bilateral defense relationship with its NATO partner, fearful of an increasingly assertive posture from Russia to the east since Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.