Friday, October 23, 2020

The Corps is Back in Town

The Army's V Corps is back, and will eventually send corps elements to Europe:

The Army’s storied V Corps officially reactivated Friday during a ceremony at Fort Knox, Ky.,  and a small portion of the unit is already on the ground in Poland to take up a new mission. ...

Full rotations to Poland will begin in the 2022 fiscal year, USAREUR said.

The military announced in February that it was reforming V Corps to bring more command and control support to an expanding Army mission in Europe. In September, the Army selected Poznan, Poland as the site for a command post.

My old hope of restoring a corps to Europe--in Military Review (starting on page 15)--will be achieved. 

Of course, back then I anticipated a power projection corps for an arc of crisis around Europe with a secondary purpose of guarding against the possibility of Russia becoming a threat to NATO. 

Now the corps is to guard against the Russian threat and American interest in intervening in that arc of crisis is really low. Hopefully that is a short-term need if Russia will finally get a clue about the real threat to Russia's territory.