The US is committing a “strategic blunder” by removing nearly 3,000 Army personnel from the Arctic as Russia continues its push to militarize the region, Senator Dan Sullivan (R—Alaska) told Anchorage-based KTVA on Sunday. “This is a strategic mistake, a strategic blunder in my view by the Department of Defense,” Sullivan told KTVA. As part of the US Army drawdown from a force of 490,000 to 450,000 active-duty soldiers, the Army set to remove 2,600 troops from the US’s largest state. This reduction comes as Russia is aggressively increasing its military presence in the Arctic region. The Kremlin …read more
Source: Business Insider
