Balancing Priorities in America's European Strategy
Journal: The US Army War College Quarterly Parameters
Year: 2016

This article examines how regional and global priorities challenge America's evolving European strategy. The need to "reassure" Eastern and Central European allies in the face of Russian assertiveness calls for greater US strategic engagement in Europe. Conversely, defense-budgetary pressures, the Asia "rebalance," and the willingness to avoid excessive escalation with Russia constitute ongoing limitations to a significant US military engagement in and around Europe. That is the essence of Ameri