Go East, Young Man: US Closes Bases In Western Europe, Builds Up In East

Go East, Young Man: US Closes Bases In Western Europe, Builds Up In East
Go East, Young Man: US Closes Bases In Western Europe, Builds Up In East

PENTAGON: The Pentagon giveth, and the Pentagon taketh away. While the Defense Department is shrinking or shuttering roughly 30 facilities across Europe, the real story isn’t a downsizing: It’s a shift. Even as the US consolidates facilities in Western Europe — some of which date to World War II — it’s building up infrastructure in Eastern Europe to contain the…