President Joe Biden authorized the Pentagon to order up to 3,000 reserve troops to be ready to deploy to Europe.
Mr. Biden said in his order that he determined “it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility.”
It’s not immediately clear whether the Pentagon plans to actually deploy the reservists any time soon.
Operation Atlantic Resolve has provided deployments of combat-credible forces to Europe since 2014. The effort was launched in response to Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. Continued rotational deployments of troops to Europe seek to build military readiness….