The NYT hosts a debate. Among Lawrence J. Korb's recommendations:
About 80,000 active-duty personnel are stationed in Europe.
Given improved U.S. capabilities for troop transport and long-range strikes, as well as the diminished threat, we can reduce this commitment substantially without compromising critical security interests. When we are out of Iraq and Afghanistan, we can also cut the size of our ground forces, which were increased by 92,000 in order to sustain deployment in those regions. Finally, we can regain a fair cost-sharing balance between taxpayers and working-age military retirees, whose health care enrollment fees ($460 a year for family coverage) have not been raised since 1995.
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