The move would include one brigade combat team as well as other forces inside Germany, the officials said. The decision does not appear to affect the U.S. military’s massive medical support bases, like Landstuhl, where thousands of troops, including those who have been injured during the war in Iran, have been taken for medical treatment.

“The Europeans have not stepped up when America needed them,” the official said. “This cannot be a one-way street.”

would be completed over 6 months