The German military announced that it would permanently station 4,000 troops in Lithuania on the Baltic coast, that is, about 1 combat brigade. However, some people find it strange that this is Germany itself, and there are still a large number of US troops stationed in the territory for more than 70 years. These garrisons have existed since the end of World War II. After World War II, Germany was occupied by the Anglo-American, Soviet, and French divisions. Later, the Soviet-occupied zone formed the GDR, while the Anglo-American-French theater formed the Federal Republic of Germany. This is the so-called East and West Germany. And Berlin, the traditional capital of Germany, is located in East Germany. At the beginning of the end of World War II, in order to show the sincere cooperation of the four major powers; The Soviets also agreed to hand over Berlin's West End to Anglo, American, and French occupation. However, with the opening of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of the Cold War, the Soviet Union quickly turned its face with the West, so that the West End of Berlin became West Berlin, and it was a "Western-inserted enclave" that did not border the West German part. The Soviet side simply blocked any land communication between West Germany and West Berlin, so Britain, the United States and France could only engage,
Large-scale air freight. To prevent the inhabitants of East Berlin from running to West Berlin and then turning west. The Soviet army and the East German side simply built a wall of hundreds of kilometers between East and West Berlin, which is the origin of the famous Berlin Wall. By 1989, West Germany was unified with East Germany; The Soviets could only agree and withdrew all Soviet troops from East Germany. At the same time, American troops in West Germany did not withdraw at the same time, but entered East Germany. At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. military had more than 100,000 troops stationed in West Germany, and had very complete long-term living and combat facilities, as well as large military hospitals. Therefore, the US military stationed in Germany is actually the base camp of the European continent, and it is also the country with the largest number of US troops stationed overseas, with 780,000 permanent troops and even hundreds of tactical nuclear weapons deployed simultaneously. Nominally to guard against Soviet Russia, in fact, it was also a near-permanent guard on Germany, preventing Germany from rising again to integrate the European continent and become a single pole in the future world.
And Germany's defense is equivalent to a long-term responsibility of NATO, in fact, the US military. As a result, the German army itself became more and more saber into Kuma and released Nanshan. Originally, during the Cold War, Germany still had at least 1,500 main battle tanks in service. So far, there are only 500 left. The Luftwaffe and navy were also not large; It has even been said that the Luftwaffe has only 4 fighters on duty all year round. In terms of the army, the German army even counts the logistics personnel of the organs, and there are only slightly more than 50,000 people, which is basically the size of a group army, and the number is not as large as the US army in its own country. And now the sudden announcement that 1 brigade of 4,000 people will be permanently stationed in the Baltic countries is also a groundbreaking new change after World War II. Some people joke that this is the US army stationed in Germany, and the German military is stationed in Lithuania; Lithuania may wish to send troops to Poland again; Then the Polish army actively intervened in a certain crane. I just don't know which foreign country a certain Crane's army will be stationed in the future; It turns out that foreign garrisons can also engage in hollow solitaire!
This actually implies that during the heavy war, the overall sense of security of Europeans was greatly reduced, but they were not enterprising for many years; As a result, once you leave the wings of a superpower, you can't do anything big on your own. Therefore, it is only possible to engage in a relay overseas garrison of the nature of joint insurance and mutual assistance, tying everyone into grasshoppers on a rope. It's really dangerous, no one wants to stay out of it easily!