That's not a "new" deployment, rather a recap of where troops have been "deployed or extended" since this conflict began a year ago. I'm reading Austin's anniversary statement as a show of power-of-position, not as the Twitter account translated it into 20K more troops are going there now.

Edit- Furthermore, Austin states that the 20K are in Europe, with some on the NATO flank - "...Meanwhile, the United States has deployed or extended more than 20,000 additional U.S. forces to Europe and forward-stationed the first permanent U.S. forces on NATO's Eastern Flank. ..."

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A brief search online shows the only new deployment being 200 soldiers to Taiwan to train. Am I mistaken on this??

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https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/02/us-sending-up-to-200-troops-to-taiwan-to-train-for-attack-from-china/

That's not a "new" deployment, rather a recap of where troops have been "deployed or extended" since this conflict began a year ago. I'm reading Austin's anniversary statement as a show of power-of-position, not as the Twitter account translated it into 20K more troops are going there now.

Edit-. Furthermore, Austin states that the 20K are in Europe, with some on the NATO flank - "...Meanwhile, the United States has deployed or extended more than 20,000 additional U.S. forces to Europe and forward-stationed the first permanent U.S. forces on NATO's Eastern Flank. ..."

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A brief search online shows the only new deployment being 200 soldiers to Taiwan to train. Am I mistaken on this??

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https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/02/us-sending-up-to-200-troops-to-taiwan-to-train-for-attack-from-china/

That's not a "new" deployment, rather a recap of where troops have been "deployed or extended" since this conflict began a year ago. I'm reading Austin's anniversary statement as a show of power-of-position, not as the Twitter account translated it into 20K more troops are going there now.

Edit-. Furthermore, Austin states that the 20K are in Europe, with some on the NATO flank - "...Meanwhile, the United States has deployed or extended more than 20,000 additional U.S. forces to Europe and forward-stationed the first permanent U.S. forces on NATO's Eastern Flank. ..."

A brief search online shows the only new deployment being 200 soldiers to Taiwan to train. Am I mistaken on this??

.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/02/us-sending-up-to-200-troops-to-taiwan-to-train-for-attack-from-china/

That's not a "new" deployment, rather a recap of where troops have been "deployed or extended" since this conflict began a year ago. I'm reading Austin's anniversary statement as a show of power-of-position, not as the Twitter account translated it into 20K more troops are going there now.

A brief search online shows the only new deployment being 200 soldiers to Taiwan to train. Am I mistaken on this??

.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/02/us-sending-up-to-200-troops-to-taiwan-to-train-for-attack-from-china/

That's not a "new" deployment, rather a recap of where troops have been "deployed or extended" since this conflict began a year ago.