The United States is urging its NATO allies and Canada to increase their military presence following the latter's preparations to reduce its military role in Europe.

The United States is urging its NATO allies, including Canada, to increase the number of aircraft, warships, and drones in their joint defense plans, following preparations to reduce their military role in Europe.

June 4, 2569 at 01.38:XNUMX a.m., Reuters reported that The United States expects NATO member countries in Europe and Canada to accelerate the increase in the number of aircraft, warships, and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) allocated to NATO's joint defense plan. After the United States prepared to reduce some of its military role in the region.

General Alexis Grinkevich, Commander-in-Chief of NATO and Commander of U.S. Forces in Europe. It was revealed that European and Canadian allies could immediately and closely reinforce US air forces, both manned and unmanned, as well as naval forces, while the US would reduce some of its allocated resources under the NATO Force Model and redirect those resources to other regions.

The statement comes after President Donald Trump's administration decided to reduce its combat support to NATO under the NATO Force Model, a system for mobilizing personnel and equipment that can be quickly deployed in the event of a crisis or war.

Trump has consistently criticized NATO and emphasized that European countries should take more responsibility for defending their own continent, rather than relying primarily on the United States.

Last month, the United States informed its allies of plans to reduce support within the NATO Force Model framework. While details were not publicly disclosed, military sources told Reuters that the cuts cover a range of capabilities, including aerial refueling aircraft, fighter jets, drones, and warships.

Grinkevich stated that NATO has been too reliant on U.S. military power for too long, and it's time for its allies to increase their own roles.

“President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth, and other senior officials have made it clear that this situation needs to change, and it will change,” he said.

He also stated that the possibility of the United States facing simultaneous conflicts in multiple regions makes it necessary to distribute military forces and resources further away from Europe.

Although many European countries are concerned that the United States may reduce its role more than announced, or even withdraw from Europe in the long term, NATO insists that such a change will not create a security gap.

Martin O'Donnell, spokesman for NATO military command. They stated that the capabilities that the US is preparing to reduce are in areas that its European allies already have the capacity to cover, or will have sufficient capacity to do so in the near future.

"Member states simply need to allocate more of their available resources to NATO," he said.

Military sources revealed that under the plan, the number of U.S. F-15 and F-15E fighter jets available to support NATO will be reduced by one-third, to 99, while the number of MQ-4 and MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance drones will be halved, to just 12.

Some experts believe that reducing the number of drones would have a direct impact on NATO's intelligence and surveillance capabilities.

"This will definitely have an impact," a military source said.

side Jim Townsend, a former senior official at the U.S. Department of Defense and a researcher at the Center for a New American Security. This move is seen as sending the wrong political signal to European allies and Russia.

"The United States should clearly demonstrate its support for allies facing pressure from Russia, rather than reducing its presence in Europe and cutting its committed military capabilities to NATO," he said.

refer : reuters.com

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