{"id":97037,"date":"2026-04-30T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=97037"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:47:03","slug":"trump-says-the-us-is-reviewing-a-potential-reduction-of-its-troops-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/trump-says-the-us-is-reviewing-a-potential-reduction-of-its-troops-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says the US is reviewing a potential reduction of its troops in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who has criticized Germany and other NATO allies for not sending their navies to help \u200bopen the Strait of Hormuz, said on Wednesday his administration is looking at reducing the number of US troops in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time,\u201d Trump said on Truth Social. A senior White House official had told Reuters earlier this month that Trump had discussed the possibility of removing some US troops from Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The US had just over 68,000 active-duty military personnel assigned permanently in its overseas bases in Europe as of December 2025, data from the US Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) shows.<\/p>\n<p>More than half \u2014 about 36,400 \u2014 are \u200cbased in Germany. \u200cThat is a fraction of the 250,000 US troops that were \u200bbased \u200cthere in \u20601985, before \u200bthe \u2060fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who has criticized Germany and other NATO allies for not sending their navies to help \u200bopen the Strait of Hormuz, said on Wednesday his administration is looking at reducing the number of US troops in Germany. \u201cThe United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":97053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97054,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97037\/revisions\/97054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}