This is one of the two links that OP already provided - Lloyd Austin's statement on the anniversary of the start of the conflict. This is what we're discussing in this post.
If you can find more info on overseas deployment of US forces over the past year, perhaps from the DOD or another presumably accurate site, that would be helpful. The two I provided below give some direction and info, but one states that actual numbers are released in September from official sources. This gives us a five month span since then to figure out if there's been a recent ramp-up.
I'm not familiar with those sources either, so I can't verify or deny anything. I'll have a good amount of free time in the next few hours, I'll dig later tonight and see what I can find.
Troops are mostly already there
Great find, does the OP in that link have the sauce to back it? I'll try to find it myself in a moment.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3308639/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-marking-one-year-since-rus/
This is one of the two links that OP already provided - Lloyd Austin's statement on the anniversary of the start of the conflict. This is what we're discussing in this post.
If you can find more info on overseas deployment of US forces over the past year, perhaps from the DOD or another presumably accurate site, that would be helpful. The two I provided below give some direction and info, but one states that actual numbers are released in September from official sources. This gives us a five month span since then to figure out if there's been a recent ramp-up.
Ok sorry bout that.... I'll post if I find it :)
This is the most current I could locate at a first search. I don't know the accuracy of either of these sources.
https://www.grid.news/story/global/2023/01/09/in-a-new-era-of-global-conflict-us-troops-are-deployed-in-dozens-of-countries-where-are-they-and-why/
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Another potential source.
https://www.vetfriends.com/resources/us_deployments_overseas.cfm
I'm not familiar with those sources either, so I can't verify or deny anything. I'll have a good amount of free time in the next few hours, I'll dig later tonight and see what I can find.