Closing more U.S. military bases in Europe, as Tom Rogan suggested on April 4, is exactly the wrong thing to do at precisely the wrong time.

Since the 1991 end of the Cold War that followed World War II, the U.S. has eliminated almost 60 European installations and the number of American troops has dropped from 300,000 to about 62,000, half of them U.S. Army soldiers.

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