More lies. Here's the quote from the report:
That's why there are no numbers for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and why the numbers in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman are artificially low.
PS: Navy personnel on ships are not permanently assigned to the region. So if, let's say,
a carrier strike group is deployed to the Middle East, those numbers don't count in this report. Or if an
army brigade is rotated to the Middle East, those numbers don't count either.
Here you go:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/artic...arency-problem
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...bers-from-web/
Yes, that's the same reporting source that you are disingenuously using to Trumpet something that doesn't exist.
The numbers used to be complete.
Then some of the numbers were removed.
As a result, the numbers went down.
Not because there are fewer troops, but because your Orange God and his administration no longer think that Americans deserve to know where their military is deployed and in what quantity.
Numbers for Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria the previous year - before Trump's Afghanistan surge - were 26,000. That's just the reported quantity.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...a-dod-reports/
Now add Trump's surge 5700
(according to you) and then an additional +14,000 since May. Let's totally ignore all of the other troop deployments that are in addition to this, such as the THAAD battery sent to Saudi Arabia, for simplicity's sake.
Get your calculator out, Wormtongue. How much did troop levels go down according to your disingenuous garbage?
-38,145
26,000
+14,000
+ 5,700
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+45,700
Troop numbers have gone up, not down. Now stop lying about it.
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