“It’s too few troops to achieve anything there—and it’s just enough to get in trouble, as we’ve seen with the recent dust-ups between U.S. and Russian forces on patrols,” said Ed King, the president and founder of Defense Priorities, a nonpartisan Washington group that calls for a smaller American military presence overseas. After seven U.S. service members were injured when their armored vehicle was rammed by a Russian one in August, the Pentagon sent another 100 soldiers to the country, increasing the American total there to 750.
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